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one calendar year. If you're caught without it, you'll be fined Sfr100. For more details, see
www.vignette.ch
.
Rental cars come equipped with this.
URBAN PARKING
Street parking in city centres (assuming traffic isn't banned, as it often is) is controlled by
parking meters during working hours (8am to 7pm Monday to Saturday). Parking costs
around Sfr2 per hour, with maximum time limits from 30 minutes to two hours. Central
streets outside these metered areas are usually marked as blue zones, allowing a 1½-hour
stay during working hours. Either way, you need to display a parking disc in your window
indicating the time you first parked. Discs are free from tourist offices, car-rental compan-
ies and police stations.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
All local city transport is linked via the same ticketing system, so you can change lines on
one ticket. Buy tickets before boarding, from dispensers at stops. Single tickets may give a
time limit (eg one hour) for travel within a particular zone, and you can only break the
journey within that time. Multistrip tickets may be available at a discount (validate them
in the on-board machine at the outset of the journey) and one-day passes are even better
value.
Inspectors regularly check for people travelling without tickets. On-the-spot fines are
Sfr100.
TRAIN
The Swiss rail network combines state-run and private operations. The
Swiss Federal
FFS in Italian. All major train stations are connected to each other by hourly departures, at
least between 6am and midnight, and most long-distance trains have a dining car. For
more on Swiss train travel, see
Click here
.
CLASSES
Second-class compartments are perfectly acceptable, but are often close to full. First-class
carriages are more comfortable, spacious and have fewer passengers. Power points for
laptops let you work aboard and some seats are in wi-fi hotspots - look for the insignia on
the carriage.
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