Zurich does pretty well with light rail, trams and buses. Public transport is very good there. Two more reasons are that the city isn't that big, so you're in easy walking distance of some sort of connection, and the terrain isn't ideal. A good chunk of the population live up steep hills which are well-served by the tram system. The airport is also very well-connected by bus/tram/rail, and only 10-15 minutes to the centre.

That said, I would have loved to see HBf on this website.

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coderatlarge 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

i remember visiting zurich once and standing at a light rail station when the next train was one minute overdue and all the people waiting were looking at their watches in total disbelief and consternation. warms my sla-minded heart :)

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izacus 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One of the most mind blowing things for me was seeing that river Sihl flows through Hbf between the tracks.

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kmarc 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

To be precise it flows above (and under) the tracks, as in, perpendicular, not "in between" parallel tracks.

BTW Hbf is a München thing, we call our beloved Zürich Hauptbahnhof just HB :-)

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izacus 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> BTW Hbf is a München thing, we call our beloved Zürich Hauptbahnhof just HB :-)

I just reused the term to be consistent and less confusing. No need to be Bünzli about it :P

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joshvm 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, my mistake - it's been a while! Definitely a local thing, and always with German pronunciation. There were a several words/phrases like that which got loaned into English. Doubly confusing because it wasn't always clear if the new word was Züri, regular Swiss-German, French but not Swiss-German, or High German. Had to be careful using new vocab in Germany!

	▲	kmarc 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention that the locals here when referring to it while speaking English, totally translate it to "eɪʧ biː" sometimes. Other times, in the middle English sentence, the German pronunciation pops up "ˈhaː ˈbeː" Fun

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wkat4242 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think Hbf is a Germany thing not just Munich.

	▲	1718627440 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yes it is.

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murermader 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you explain where? Which tracks?

I have seen this comment on Reddit a few months ago, and some people were talking about it. They came to the conclusion that you cannot see the Sihl.

	▲	sschueller 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's between the underground tracks of Bahnhof Löwenstrasse and the above ground: [1] There are a lot of little neat things. For example the elevators go sideways [2] because the platform in the underground Bahnhof is wider (this is due to safety regulations etc.) [3] BTW, what is marked as Stadttunnel in [1] is the new bike tunnel [4] which has actually been there for many years as it was supposed to be a highway tunnel but was never opened (built many, many years ago). [1] https://img.nzz.ch/2014/05/30/1.18312867.1401474596.jpg [2] https://www.standseilbahnen.ch/images/8000/8000.06-zuerich-h... [3] https://implenia.com/fileadmin/implenia.com/referenzen/durch... [4] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/web/de/mobilitaet/v...