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Archive for April, 2009

The “compass for urban nomads” wins

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

What to do when you’re in a city, and you quickly need to know the fastest connection to another place by public transport? If you live in Switzerland and have an iPhone, the answer is clear: “GottaGo”. The application, described as a “compass for urban nomads”, provides you with the schedules using your current location. [...]

Tram casting in Zurich

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

A nice concept seen this morning on my way to the office: a tram casting. The local public transport company wants to renew its fleet, but is not sure if the public would like the new model they planned to buy. So they borrowed a couple to another swiss city using them already, and they branded them in yellow with the mention “swiss first tram casting”.