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  • The town I grew up in has approx. 4000 inhabitants. It is served by a railway station with 4 trains per hour (one per direction every 30min), all day, from 05:00 to 24:00. On top of that it has four bus lines with frequencies between 30 and 10 minutes. It lies next to a medium sized (for Switzerland) city of 55k inhabitants, which has much much more public transport, like 20+ trains an hour in 6 directions and dozens of bus lines.

    Just for comparison.

    A 55k community in the USA would probably be considered a very small town, I guess. Not worthy of even a single railway line.



  • The cycling infrastructure in Switzerland is good, but the Netherlands are on a whole different level.

    The video is ok, but contains incorrect information. Fines aren’t scaled by income, they’re fixed. Only for major infractions that go before a court of law is the penalty scaled.

    Also, there is a shot from Bern saying “look people don’t cycle when it’s unsafe” but what is being shown is the roundabout of the motorway exit Ostring. No one cycles around that as there is no point. Cyclists would bypass that ugly sin from the 1970s.

    It’s also funny to hear Basel being called a small city, in Switzerland it’s considered one of the biggest, like Genève, Zürich, Bern, Lausanne.