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Banana slides more efficient than escalators

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  • 20-05-2017 12:00am
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    Impetus
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    SwissRail has introduced banana slides to access your train as an alternative to escalators at some stations. More fun for many and zero energy consumption.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vz7Rj_o1Iw&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c&index=33

    Typically Swiss.

    Unlikely to happen in deadwood controlled EUland or Ireland (both of which are heading for insolvency mode in the long term), due to political managerial incompetence, on virtually all fronts etc.


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    colm_mcm
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    Looks like an ad for their app to me.


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    That.
    Is.
    Brilliant.

    Wouldn't work here, of course. Lazy Paddy would figure some way to stand on it and slow everybody down...


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    gctest50
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    Impetus wrote: »
    ........

    Typically Swiss.

    Unlikely to happen in deadwood controlled EUland or Ireland (both of which are heading for insolvency mode in the long term), due to political managerial incompetence, on virtually all fronts etc.

    Typically Swiss


    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623


    Doing it save up money to pay the Swiss slave children


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    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    endacl wrote: »
    That.
    Is.
    Brilliant.

    Wouldn't work here, of course. Lazy Paddy would figure some way to stand on it and slow everybody down...

    And the slider would probably sprain his/her leg and sue someone under the 10th century British common law which operates in Ireland. In most other places - eg continental Europe, Russia, China, Latin America etc we have civil law - ie a law that is codified in a book. eg in a civil law country if a newspaper is involved in libel, the victim reports it to the police, and if the person (eg newspaper) is found guilty is fined and or executives are imprisoned. It is not a money making machine which prevents freedom of the press as a result, as it is in Hiberno/Anglo-Saxon land.


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    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    gctest50 wrote: »
    Typically Swiss


    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623


    Doing it save up money to pay the Swiss slave children

    Whatever about the past - and I don't believe this British story to be true, it does not happen today, if ever. The Swiss minimum wage is CHF 25/h which is close to EUR 25 per hour. Which is far higher than in the EU. Switzerland has zero tolerance for victimization of people. There are few farms in Switzerland in any event - the country is one of the most mountainous in Europe/world. Swiss standards make EU standards look third-worldish.

    This woman who is not young is a VP of Swiss Rail. She developed one of their main travel apps. Video links of the app below:

    This ad is partially in English

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnkvvMmAXQg&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c&index=14



    Some app usage guidelines in English

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89TTISKqaQ&index=17&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c

    (it does not tell you about the wake up call, if you are sleeping during the journey as you arrive at your station and using the app means that you won't be ticket checked) because the ticket checkers can see the Mrs H at seat A23 has paid for her ticket.



    Customising your start page

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePRUu5OC92w&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c&index=20



    Buying tickets online for other people

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9383D-O5BE&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c&index=21



    Travelling around town on city transport using the app

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2pXv_zZEdg&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c&index=30

    (Journeys are computed door to door from your house in say Geneva to your office in Zurich) - including all connections.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0gcViQz6aM



    Her name is Yvette Michael and she became a Swiss TV star from her app development and TV marketing of it.

    She is speaking Zuri Schweiz in this ad which even most Germans can't understand. It is like speaking Irish to an English person.



    The train announcer type person afterwards is speaking German



    Here she is in Zurich HB station, knitting in a lounge waiting for her train

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIl2Ea6-MY0

    250'000'000 people a year pass through this station - Zurich city size about same as Dublin.



    In this vid, she is helping a Spanish person - speaking Spanish to find the track for his train using her app (the Spanish guy must be really dumb because finding your track is fairly bog simple in Switzerland



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXxXH8xUeU



    This is a video in German on how to buy a discount ticket and get a barcode on your mobile phone

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAi7bAqcIjA



    Here she is doing some house cleaning, and her ad is subtitled in German, French, Italian and English

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuBrA4WgRh0&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c



    Her mobile app wakes her up if she dozes off just as she is coming into her destination station

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evuHqbsU6UM&list=PL2y5uecQPrF0vGAQcP7RFiKvmiAtgqG7c&index=1



    Very Swiss, multi-lingual, and a reflection of the quality of government and public transport and the willingness and ability to engineer and deliver it.


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    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Looks like an ad for their app to me.

    The stuff on youtube (links) are adds for the app. Which is as it should be. Get people to buy into the app for mobility convenience, and keep them from using cars.

    In Switzerland you can buy a ticket (GA) that allows you to use all trains, trams, buses boats etc for a fixed annual price on an unlimited basis - a general subscription. This reduces car traffic, increases use of public transport, and creates a virtuous circle. If you have a GA your choice is a train from say Geneva to Zurich and free urban travel in Zurich, or buying a car, and insuring it, and fuel cost, and driving to Zurich and paying for parking and all the costs of the return journey. If you work in Zurich, you can live in say Zug (which being the best managed canton in Switzerland has the lowest taxes) and commute to Zurich daily in 20 or so minutes paying Zug rather than Zurich income tax and save a bundle. ie there is tax competition between cantons (call them counties in the Irish context). But in many cases they are independent Republics or at least countries. 26 of them. If you fancy some Med food and climate at the weekend, hop on a train to Lugano or Chiasso and even though you are still in Switzerland, you benefit from a Med/Latin climate/cuisine. With a travel subscription (GA) it does not cost a cent extra to change your climate or go skiing or whatever.

    Public transport in Switzerland is constantly selling itself. The tram that arrives at your stop every 5 minutes. The integration of ticketing - ie you can travel from city A to B and use the public local transport in city B to get to your destination. The airports have mainline rail stations going everywhere - not just the city centre.

    Ireland has a similar (although far inferior) app - not to mind busses, trams and trains to back up the vision. All Swiss door to door public transport info is available on the web at www.rail.ch. (Everything boats, trains, trams, buses, funicular etc) - easy to remember. When you go to rail.ch your menus and info are in English. If you go to sbb.ch your info will be in German. Use cff.ch and it will be in French.

    In Ireland there is a poor shadow of this with an ugly, hard to remember url at http://www.journeyplanner.transportforireland.ie/nta/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en

    How brain dead can a country be?


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