IN A REFERENDUM on September 23, the residents of all 182 districts in Zürich approved plans for a fourth expansion of the city’s S-Bahn network. The vote clears the way for a cantonal grant of SFr580m towards the SFr1·45bn scheme.

The biggest element in the package is the construction by 2012 of a second underground through station beneath Zürich Hbf, lying beneath L

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