Saturday 31 December 2011

On the SBB's planning for stations

I have long been irritated by the fact that the town in which I live has some 10,000 inhabitants but the "new" station has "pick up and drop" facilities that provide parking for only TWO cars. Moreover, those cars have to be Smarts or some such very small car to actually fit into the parking space provided. If a car is any larger, it does not fit into "its" space and creates problems then for the 2nd car that might theoretically fit into that space. That also creates problems for the taxis that are supposed to be parked contiguously there (again, two spaces only) as well as for the continuously parked public buses!

I notice also that all (or at least many) "new" SBB stations are being built without drinking water fountains. No doubt this may be very good for vendors of bottled water and other drinks, but it is bad for customers who don't want to be forced to buy plain water that is provided at very good quality on the basis of taxes that we already pay.

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