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SwingBeep
reply to 'Back To the Future – New Rail Service to Swiss Alps' posted Oct-2012

bandit wrote: Thanks Swingbeep :thumbup: I see a big lunchtime shaped hole in the timetable (again).

That's because it's lunchtime. Many people still go home for lunch, the schools close, many of the smaller businesses and shops close and some of the larger companies insist that their employees take at least a 45 minute break.

Bandit
reply to 'Back To the Future – New Rail Service to Swiss Alps' posted Oct-2012

SwingBeep wrote:
bandit wrote: Thanks Swingbeep :thumbup: I see a big lunchtime shaped hole in the timetable (again).

That's because it's lunchtime. Many people still go home for lunch, the schools close, many of the smaller businesses and shops close and some of the larger companies insist that their employees take at least a 45 minute break.


The trains still run, and there are always lots of people looking at their luggage and the Bus timetable, and wondering what to do for the 2 hours until the next Bus arrives!

The hole in the timetable disappeared for a while last winter :D

Edited 1 time. Last update at 12-Oct-2012

SwingBeep
reply to 'Back To the Future – New Rail Service to Swiss Alps' posted Oct-2012

The timetable is issued provisionally to enable people to comment on things such as large gaps like the one you mention and the timetable is sometimes changed as a result. When next year's is issued you could inform the department of transport in Sion about the need for a bus service to the val d'Anniviers over lunch time. It would obviously help if you got the local tourist authority involved. You could even write to your old mate Jean-Michel Cina, he came up trumps last time.

Bandit
reply to 'Back To the Future – New Rail Service to Swiss Alps' posted Oct-2012

SwingBeep wrote:The timetable is issued provisionally to enable people to comment on things such as large gaps like the one you mention and the timetable is sometimes changed as a result. When next year's is issued you could inform the department of transport in Sion about the need for a bus service to the val d'Anniviers over lunch time. It would obviously help if you got the local tourist authority involved. You could even write to your old mate Jean-Michel Cina, he came up trumps last time.


The timetable looks rather like the one for last winter. I'm hoping that the "supplementary" service will run again. Not convinced that the Dept of Transport would take any notice of a foreign visitor, but I appreciate your point. Tourists arriving at all hours, how inconvenient. AFAIK these days J-M Cina moves in more elevated circles -)

Topic last updated on 12-October-2012 at 17:43