Today, Swiss Rail announced big price increases on some tickets and passes. The new prices will apply from 11 December 20161. According to the Swiss government consumer price index, average prices declined by 2.1% between October 2010 and October 20162. Over the same six years, from December 20103 to December 2016, the price of a […]
Price watchdog says intercity Swiss rail prices too high
24 Heures. According to Stefan Meierhans of Switzerland’s price watchdog Surveillant des prix, train journeys between Geneva and Lausanne, and between Bern and Zurich are too expensive when compared to prices abroad. The price watchdog Surveillant des prix operates under a law passed in 1985, updated in 2013, and designed to keep an eye on the prices of a […]
Bad news for Swiss commuters
Last year the Swiss government decided to increase the fees train operators, including Swiss Rail, must pay to run their trains on Switzerland’s rail network. Switzerland has 4,641 km of track running as high as 3,454 metres, and one of the densest rail networks in the world. Maintaining all of this track costs a lot of money, […]
