Bahnhof Oerlikon

Man würde meinen, dass bei einem Umbau, der Millionen gekostet hat, auch an die Passagiere mit schweren Kofern gedacht wurde. Aber fehl geschlagen! Was nützt ein Lift, vor dem man warten muss und viel Energie verbraucht, wenn man nur 3min Zeit zum umsteigen ha?!. Eine Rampe wäre in so einem Fall kostengünstiger und viel nützlicher gewesen! Auch für alle Mütter mit einem Kinderwagen oder die Rollstuhlfahrer.

Bahnhof Oerlikon is the best! It is very well connected to Zurich HB (8 minutes by train) and it has 8 train tracks (hence many trains pass by here). It’s also only a 3 minutes train ride to Zurich airport.
The neighborhood itself is not really a neighborhood in the sense you would expect in Zurich and that’s mainly because all the important stores are well concentrated in less than one square kilometer: huge Coopy City, huge Migros, Ochner Sport, Fust, Interdiscount, bookstores, famous restaurants (Rolli’s, Chayenne), pharmacies open on Sundays, dentists and so on.
Hence, Oerlikon is a nice place to visit and a nice place to live in. However, there’s annoying construction work happening at the moment. This makes the experience of passing through the train station and reaching your train track quite uncomfortable.

I haven’t been at this train station for a while and recently started going there again. Like most places in Switzerland, it’s constantly under construction, and I got kind of lost trying to find the way down from the station to the Tram 10 stop. Eventually found my way, but it was a bit confusing at first.
This is quite a large station, but well-​connected with many lines, including a direct one to the airport. There is an Asia Store right outside, and I also saw a specialty barbeque sauce shop nearby. Coop and Migros Klubschule are located right across the street, too. So pretty good for lots of stuff.