GENEVA, SWTIZERLAND – Air travel rose in August worldwide, show figures released this week by the airline industry body IATA, with growth for 2013 holding steady at 5 percent. The number of passengers worldwide is expected to top the 3 billion mark for the first time, this year. Profits for airlines are better than in […]
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A9 roadworks finish before ski season
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The series of roadworks between Martigny and Sierre in canton Valais, started this summer, are nearing completion and should be finished before the start of the ski season, reports local newspaper Le Nouvelliste in Sion. Sion is the capital of Valais, home to a large number of Switzerland’s ski areas. Two bridges […]
New Eaux-Vives Ceva station takes shape
Carouge firm awarded architectural work GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Aeby & Pernegger in Carouge have won the archtiecture tender for the two new Eaux-Vives buildings that will be part of the Ceva station, across from the Nouvelle Comédie. The bid for tender for the construction work will be held in 2014. The total CFF project has […]
Future travel: more Gotthard trains, Geneva bus & route shifts
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Gotthard tunnel will have an additional train track if the government has its way, and Geneva’s trams and buses will see some routing changes for 2014 as construction starts on the Ceva project. These plus a bid by private investors to back an oft-suggested Lake Geneva crossing project are part of […]
Geneva-Lausanne train traffic behind increase
Punctuality, connections slip slightly ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss trains successfully wooed 1.6 percent more travelers during the first half of 2013, but as a result there was some slippage in trains arriving on time and connections made. The success rates was 87.3 percent for punctuality (down from 89.5 percent) and 97.5 percent, down from 98.3 […]