Comments on: Swiss Show The World How To Run A Football Tournament

By: EuroDose: June 12th ‘08 - Euro 2008

EuroDose: June 12th ‘08 - Euro 2008 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:41:18 +0000

[...] In praise of Swiss signage (EPL Talk) [...]

By: TT

TT — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:43:21 +0000

Here they apologise over the PA when the trains arrive dead ON TIME as is normal. Seriously!

Omatase shimashita.

By: Kartik

Kartik — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:44:00 +0000

The train leaving Wembley Central to Paddington on the Bakerloo line was free on the day of US-England. However from Paddington anywhere beyond they began charging, and the buses going to Wembley were actually pulled out of service forcing me to walk about a mile or two from Harrow Road to the stadium.

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:40:26 +0000

Dignan,

Free train trips from city to city, yes. I love the Swiss!

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: LemmusLemmus

LemmusLemmus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:29:43 +0000

As for free public transportation, most (all?) Bundesliga clubs have something similar: Free intra- (though not inter-) city transportation if you own a ticket. My understanding is that the clubs pay the local public transport organizations money for that, so that will be priced into the tickets. (I would guess UEFA had to do something similar.) Besides the money, the benefit to the transport organizations is that the bus driver doesn’t have to sell 50 fans a ticket before he can restart the journey, which would disrupt schedules.