A schedule that sets the distance

A Regional train leaving a station © Christian Meyer-Hentschel 2022 Unsplash

A Regional train leaving a station © Christian Meyer-Hentschel 2022 Unsplash

With the new SBB timetables, French-speaking towns are drifting away from German-speaking Switzerland and from each other. For Vincent Kaufmann, head of the Laboratory of Urban Sociology, this is the result of an "every man for himself" attitude and a belated awakening in French-speaking Switzerland with regard to the railways.

Read the texts here and here.