[PRCo] Re: Zurich

[Schneider Fred]

And I see what I forgot to add ... the ubiquitous solid light blue  
lines are all bus and trolley bus lines.


On Sep 21, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Schneider Fred wrote:

> When I tried to copy a .pdf file into this, it opened it.   I  
> assume that Derrick's server will recompress it and you will again  
> have to reopen it.   So somewhere it this message, either beneath  
> this series of sentences or at the bottom will be a .pdf file that  
> contains a transit map of Zurich, Switzerland.   I'm providing it  
> because of Bob from "Crazy California"  began asking questions  
> about trainsit in this Swiss city.   I think you will all find the  
> array of routes astonishing for a city of just 377,000 people.
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> The pale blue lines afre all bus lines.   Solid black is S-bahn  
> (commuter railroad) and the intercity trains also run over some of  
> those same routes.   For example, all of the intercity trains to  
> the northeastern part of the nation go through the basement of the  
> airport ...  you will see it in the upper right portion of the map  
> to the left of the suburban town of Kloten.   Apparently the  
> Forchbahn is considered part of the S-bahn network ... it is that  
> interurban in the southeast that runs beyond the 11 car line.
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> All of the pretty colored lines are streetcar lines.
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> The dashed blue lines in the middle of the lake are ferries.
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> In the east central portion of the city I can find not less than  
> three funiculars.
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> <zurich-transport.pdf>
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> Nice satellite photo of central Zurich.   Note the Hauptbahnhof  
> (Central station) at the top of the picture.    The street leading  
> north - south from the station (with the bend in it 5 blocks south  
> of the station) is Bahnhofstrasse, one of the more fashionable  
> shopping streets in the world.   It is the one on which you saw the  
> night picture of the couple kissing with the trolley and the  
> station in the distance in the Japanese website.   As in many  
> European cities, Bahnhofstrasse is a pedestrian / public transport  
> street but not open to automobiles.
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> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Zurich.jpg
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> The Wikipedia page on Zurich.   This shows all sorts of general  
> stuff from weather to Zingli's church to a picture of a trolley.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich