I stayed in Basel for 10 days. After a long ride it was really very urgent to find a toilet and I wa
I stayed in Basel for 10 days. After a long ride it was really very urgent to find a toilet and I was lucky to find a parking space at the beautiful border of the river Rhein in the middle of the city - and right next to a public toilet :-)Basel has a very friendly parking system. Spaces marked blue are for people living in the neighbourhood (having a special card to display in the car) or can be used freely during two hours. You need a display-card that shows your arrival time and the end of your free parking time. It doesn’t help though to just come back and change the arrival time: sometimes the police puts little marks to check if the car has been moved…But then you can go to one of the ticket vending machines for the public transport and pay 10 Swiss francs. You get a ticket that you put visibly inside your car and you can leave your car 24 hours. Compared to what I pay in other cities - even in countries where prices usually are much lower than in Switzerland - I found this a very generous offer. And above all easy to use: the ticket machines - that are everywhere in the city - work in various languages and one can pay in cash (Swiss Francs and Euros) or with the credit card. Really thoughtfully organized. One of the examples, although just a very little one, why Switzerland in general works so good. Success often depends on details. -- source link
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