{"id":6406,"date":"2016-05-12T11:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2016-05-12T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:12:30","slug":"intercity-swiss-rail-prices-too-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/?p=6406","title":{"rendered":"Intercity Swiss rail prices too high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">According to the Switzerland\u2019s price watchdog <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.preisueberwacher.admin.ch\/pue\/fr\/home.html\">Surveillant des prix<\/a>, train journeys between Geneva and Lausanne, and between Bern and Zurich are too expensive when compared to prices abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">A one-year annual <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sbb.ch\/en\/business-travel\/businesstravel\/product-range\/the-ga-travelcard\/ga-travelcard-for-adults.html\">GA travel card<\/a> (<em>abonnement general)<\/em> currently costs CHF\u00a03,655 in second class or CHF\u00a05,970 in first class. Swiss Rail\u2019s website puts the per killometre price at 14.2 cents if you cover 25,000 km over a year. A round trip from Zurich to Geneva is around 550 kms so you\u2019d need to make this journey on average once a week\u00a0to reach 25,000 km across a year. If these prices are out of reach then a <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cff.ch\/voyages-d-affaires\/businesstravel\/assortiment\/abonnement-demi-tarif.html\">half price card<\/a>, which halves ticket prices, is a good option. These cost CHF 165 for one year. According to one\u00a0calculation a typical car costs 65 cents per kilometre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Le NEWS &amp; 24 Heures<em>, 05.05.2016<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Switzerland\u2019s price watchdog Surveillant des prix, train journeys between Geneva and Lausanne, and between Bern and Zurich are too expensive when compared to prices abroad. A one-year annual GA travel card (abonnement general) currently costs CHF\u00a03,655 in second class or CHF\u00a05,970 in first class. Swiss Rail\u2019s website puts the per killometre price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-5-minutes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepalswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/SBB.jpg?fit=608%2C407&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalswiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}