A Lover's Complaint2007-01-22 18:25:11
You can ask anyone in St. Gallen - no-one owns a car, they all cycle or walk.A place of work that can not be reached on foot, by bike at the very most, is almost in-acceptable for Swiss citizens.One of the first questions presented to me, when I was interviewed for the job I have at the moment was:"Are you sure it won't be too much for you to drive 40 kmh to work every day?"I replied, that I had regularly commuted backwards and forwards between Stuttgart and St. Gallen (250 km) previously - that seemed to stump them.The question is, though, if no-one in St. Gallen owns a car (or Zurich/Bern/Lucerne etc. for that matter - they all say the same) why is it, that there is never ever a parking space available when you need one?I used to have a lady-friend in SG. I was never once on time when I visited her, because I always spent an hour driving around looking for a parking slot! Hardly any of the houses in SG have garages and the roads are packed tight with parked cars. The parking spaces I