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La Poste Yellow cargo trike. La Poste has had electric trikes forever but they used to be much smaller, now this model has a big cargo box in the back that side opens and has internal organising which looks like killer ergonomics, much better than the ones I use. Also has a box in the front for fast access. Overall the trike is more scooter than by cycle shaped, with a very comfy and low seat.

Speaking of, a cargo trike delivery colleague
Except he's not working for a contractor for a contractor for Amazon, he's a Swiss Post employee
La Poste 📯 has been doing bike deliveries forever. That and train cargo logistics is prob part of efficiencies that make private carriers uncompetitive in CH

3x10 row of mailboxes in appartement building lobby. Each mailbox has the legally mandated "boîte à lait" parcel box, which is unlockable but hides parcels from view. Canada minimum mailboxes can't even hold a newspaper.

When I left Switzerland I never expected that mailboxes would become a nostalgic sight.

Sandwich aisle with two vegan sandwiches, including "Winter edition" for 7 CHF

K Kiosks even in Valais have vegan ready to eat sandwiches now, that's neat. And they're even edible!

Sad that it's never happening and we have highway tunnel instead, happy the nazis didn't get another neutral protected rail link to italy.

In train plan of the TMR Saint Bernard line squiggling its way around the mountain from Martigny to Le Châble (cabin to Verbier) with a tiny branch transfer to Orsières. The on demand stop on it is a village of 20.

Open railway map of area. Small mountain single track branch line that somehow could have been the third rail link to Italy.

Also this small mountain line has a 4km long branch line, which is operated with a single train shuttling twice per hour, connecting to a timed transfer to Martigny/Verbier.
Apparently there was once a funded project to extend with a St Bernard pass train tunnel to Italy, but then WW2 happened.

As usual with my pic threads, most information is in the alt of pictures.

Storage space with the rack down and hosting a few skis. It can pivot out of the way to allow storing bikes secured or wheelchairs. There's a carpet to absorb excess snow.

Sembrancher station with three platforms (Orsières shuttle train, up to Verbier and down to Martigny) and the road crossing the track on a bridge further down. Also beautiful mountain in bg, no big deal

The Martin-Orsières-Verbier line is so funny.
The only 3x2 seating in switzerland afaik, a LOT of multi usage space (wheelchair/luggage/bike/skis) with removable racks for skis, full grade separation for a single track 2tphpd line, and terminus station built to recieve 200m bilevels from anywhere

My fairphone died on the first ski day so missing a lot of Geneva stuff

Pochoir graffiti of a little girl dancing on a burning cop car. Text "Nous danserons sur les cendres du vieux monde"

Neuchâtel castle entrance gate. Two towers of yellow stone flanking a deeply inset wooden door. The new castle (1000 yo) is the seat of the cantonal government.

Switzerland trip travel pics, urbanism and things I find cool

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A flyover at each cross border is a lot less expensive than changing every signal in the whole ass country that is directional. And then there's probably station mouths that only make sense in one direction and that's a big ass investment

It's not about being nice, it's just that towing a car takes a while and slows down the very expensive snow removal operation, so it's worth making a lot of noise on the off chance it will get someone to move their car on their own

Yes, that is exactly the point of the thread we're replying to.

and that we were NOT ready for that, big guy in steel running at you suddenly is scary

When doing martial battles with our swiss mercenary unit, the one guy equipped in full plate once decided to just yolo charge through our pikes.
Despite how stupid the move was it worked and we got wiped, because he had full plate and we didn't.

Angel broke, turned it off and on.
Is working again, but broken :D

Really depends on opex and how attractive the train is, in Mtl the commuter trains have worse pass/mile costs than the buses, because our trains suck ass.

It sucks because having residential streets that actually work as spaces where drivers are guests and active users are safe is how you get all the fat fat on the bones of a good bike lane network.
But it can't work if the "bike street" is just a car street with a bike icon on it.

I can't imagine the strength it has taken, having to restrain yourself from joking about your family name for years.
Porn actors are truly the bravest of us 🫡

Le problème c'est pas plutôt que les autres modes de transports n'ont pas de financement garantis ??
Je pense la STM se porterait pas mal mieux on devait leur verser une quantité constante par passager/km plutôt qu'avoir un financement qui peut disparaître d'une année à l'autre

Propane is a really good refrigerant gas

Wait the building parking has car lifts ??

Luthen from Andor, season 1, episode “one way out”

Calm.
Employment.
Respect.
Grass.

I’ve given up all chance at inner peace.
I’ve made my feed a sunless space. I share my replies with shitposters. I wake up every day to an account I made 2 years ago that lead to only one conclusion.

This is so space inefficient it's impressive

Swiss cooking classes ftw. Apart from the bit where everything we learned to cook was meat based.
Still learnt a lot of useful skills though.

After 222 responses, I can objectively determine that it's clocky to have a small penis

I miss when cities named streets after their political affiliation instead of random dead personalities

Photo of R290 heat pump

“is there a technology that the left is excited about?”

Yes, but this kind of smart, energy efficient, all-electric, heat generating machine is illegal in the US and Canada.

How are those platforms dealing with trains that have the steps ?