<story><title>Live Map of Swiss Trains</title><url>https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hubraumhugo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard for foreigners to grasp that our comprehensive public transport network connects even the most remote areas of Switzerland. My parents are living on a farm in the countryside and still I can get there easily by train and bus. If I need some more flexibility (moving stuff, skiing, ...), there are electric car rentals available at any major train stations. It&amp;#x27;s my ideal version of mobility.&lt;p&gt;PS: The Swiss federal railways also have a large set of open data to enable such cool projects: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.sbb.ch&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.sbb.ch&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>Compare me visiting my parents who live in a &amp;quot;remote&amp;quot; town of in BC about 200km from Vancouver.  After a ferry and a bus I found myself outside a grocery store asking strangers for a ride north (no taxi service). A kind soul drove me to the highway turnoff.  I walked the last five miles.  That&amp;#x27;s what most of North America is like once you step slightly outside of the major cities: No car, no get there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Live Map of Swiss Trains</title><url>https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hubraumhugo</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard for foreigners to grasp that our comprehensive public transport network connects even the most remote areas of Switzerland. My parents are living on a farm in the countryside and still I can get there easily by train and bus. If I need some more flexibility (moving stuff, skiing, ...), there are electric car rentals available at any major train stations. It&amp;#x27;s my ideal version of mobility.&lt;p&gt;PS: The Swiss federal railways also have a large set of open data to enable such cool projects: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.sbb.ch&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.sbb.ch&amp;#x2F;pages&amp;#x2F;home&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panick21_</author><text>Usually locations for skiing are very well connected. Trains that go to popular skiing locations of have places to store your equipment. There are also bikes available at most stations.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s my ideal version of mobility.&lt;p&gt;It can decently be a lot better in a lot of ways. But we have to not just complain but try to objectively criticizes so we can continue to improve.&lt;p&gt;I would like to actually do high-speed rail. Switzerland did really well improving on InterCity trains and got more people to use them. But that became almost a mantra of &amp;#x27;speed doesn&amp;#x27;t matter&amp;#x27;. The actual mantra is &amp;#x27;not as fast as possible, but as fast as required&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;This was correct and with the Rail2035 plan, we are going further in that direction. Many InterCity trains go from every 30 min to every 15 min. Basically turning most of the country into an S-Bahn like system.&lt;p&gt;See here if you are interested: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sbb-step2035.ch&amp;#x2F;de&amp;#x2F;personenverkehr&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sbb-step2035.ch&amp;#x2F;de&amp;#x2F;personenverkehr&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But I think beyond that we should seriously consider a totally new high-speed line, right across the major population centers. That would not just make rail competitive with driving, but beat driving with a big stick. Also this would free up a huge amount of capacity from the existing lines and allow things like 15min regional and inter-regional travel. Plus it would increase cargo capacity.&lt;p&gt;Sadly its currently not in the Rail2050 plan, but there are people pushing for it.&lt;p&gt;Further, I think we can do a lot, a lot better in terms of biking. Compared to the Dutch we are utterly primitive in integrating biking in the larger transport network. In the Netherlands they have figured out that bikes are the optimal feeder system into the rail network and have taken huge advantage of that. Switzerland needs to do so much better in that.&lt;p&gt;Frankly, I think its really useful. I was able to perfectly travel around on Christmas. Getting to family in different parts of the country, no problem.</text></comment>