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Switzerland has a high rate of newspaper reading, even with the creation of electronic media. [2] The Francophone press market was, for several generations, dominated by Edipresse (Lausanne, which owned most of the dailies) and Ringier (Zurich, owned most of the magazines), but new competition arrived in the 21st century.
The Road Traffic Act (German: Strassenverkehrsgesetz, SVG, French: Loi fédérale sur la circulation routière, LCR, Italian: Legge federale sulla circolazione stradale, LCStr), is a Swiss federal law that governs traffic on public roads in Switzerland. It was adopted on 19 December 1958 by the Federal Assembly and came into force on 1 October ...
SWI swissinfo.ch emerged from the Swiss Radio International (SRI), a business unit of SRG SSR for foreign countries. It was founded in 1935 and had the task of informing the Swiss abroad about what is happening in Switzerland and promoting Switzerland's presence abroad. Originally, radio programs were broadcast via short wave and later via ...
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If built, the network, would stretch roughly 500 kilometers (310 miles) from Geneva in the west of Switzerland to St. Gallen in the northeast, and be completed around 2045.
With its four national languages, its cultural diversity and economical status, Switzerland has long had one of the best developed and most complete mass media sectors in Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Still, due to its small territorial size, it is strongly influenced by the media of larger bordering countries, with foreign journals, radios and ...
Switzerland has an extensive and reliable public transport network. Due to the clock-face schedule, the different modes of transports are well-integrated. There is a national integrated ticketing system for public transport, which is organized in tariff networks (for all train and bus services and some boat lines, cable cars and funiculars).
Swiss motorways sign (max 120 km/h) Swiss expressways sign (max 100 km/h) Switzerland has a two-class highway system: motorways with separated roads for oncoming traffic and a standard maximal speed limit of 120 kilometres per hour (75 mph), and expressways often with oncoming traffic and a standard maximal speed limit of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph).