Swiss vignettes set to become electronic
Switzerland’s federal council, or executive branch of government, has made further progress on coming up with an electronic replacement for the nation’s motorway tax sticker, or vignette. It released a report last week with details that bring its plans closer to...
Car theft Switzerland
Once again Geneva wins the prize for the highest level of car theft Switzerland. According to Zurich Insurance, Geneva leads by far. Vaud is a distant second. Zurich says there were 200 times more vehicle thefts in Geneva than in Zug in 2016. In addition, since 2014,...
The Swiss worst traffic is in Geneva
Geneva driving school The satellite navigation company TomTom, has collected over 14 trillion measurements from over 450 million GPS devices around the world, crunched the data, and worked out which cities have the worst traffic congestion. The latest...
Speeder gets 6 months prison
Geneva driving school Speeder gets 6 months prison A German motorcyclist was sentenced to 19 months in prison by a court in Luzern, a canton in Switzerland. Six of the 19 month sentence must be served behind bars. The motorcyclist was flashed going 150 km/h in an 80...