Bombardier: Dosto-train is reliable and comfortable

Bombardier , the manufacturer of the SBB-Pannenzugs FV-Dosto, has worked in the past weeks and months intensively to remedy the numerous defects. The train today is reliable and comfortable, it was said at the media conference held on Wednesday in Zurich.

Since the timetable change in 2018, approximately 75 percent of the technical causes of Disruption are eliminated could have been. Great progress had also been on the comfort score, said Bombardier CEO Stéphane Wettstein.

With the new Software since September 2019 in operation, it has managed to eliminate the vibrations so that they are partially smaller than in the conventional double-deck trains. And wobbled it had been shaken so far, especially in the upper level of the FV-Dosto.

Overall, Bombardier handed over until now, 25 Dosto trains on the SBB . Until the summer of 2021, the entire fleet will be delivered between 62 trains.

Because of the harsh criticism the past few months, Bombardier has created a dedicated Website for the FV-Dosto. Under swissdosto.ch new switches updated information on the introduction and operation of the train up.

"teaching money

"paid", The punctuality of our rail network is actually very high," said Wettstein, a well-informed, together with the project Manager, the Pierre, the media Miramont. Wettstein was in connection with the Problemzug and cooperation with the SBB: "Both parties have paid their money."

Wettstein recalled, what is the significance of the Bombardier group: "We transport 500 million passengers a day." The production facility is located in Villeneuve VD, where 530 Hired to be employed, said Wettstein.

Problemzug: The FV-Dosto. (Keystone/Ennio Leanza)

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Created: 06.11.2019, 10:15 a.m.