Opfikon railway station

Glattbrugg railway station (German: Bahnhof Glattbrugg) is a railway station in Switzerland, in the Glattbrugg area of the municipality of Opfikon. The station is located on the main line of the Oerlikon–Bülach line and is an interchange point between the Zürich S-Bahn and the Stadtbahn Glattal light rail system.The station is served by S-Bahn lines S3, S9 and S15, and by Zürich tram routes 10 and 12, operating on behalf of the Stadtbahn Glattal. Glattbrugg station is some 250 metres (820 ft) walk from Opfikon station on S-Bahn line S7.A large rail-served fuel depot is located to the west of the station, which is used to handle aviation fuel supplies to the nearby Zurich International Airport.

Opfikon (German pronunciation: [ˈɔpfikoːn]; in the local Swiss German dialect: [ˈopfikxə]) is the name of a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zürich, located in the district of Bülach.

Glattpark is a large construction project in Switzerland that is taking shape in Opfikon, close to the border to Zürich. As part of the construction project a new neighbourhood will be built by 2020; it is designed to provide room for 7,000 residents and about the same number of jobs. Some of the favourable locational factors used to market the area are the direct proximity to the city of Zürich, where similar construction projects are being realized in Oerlikon and Seebach. The large service companies based in the north of the city and other companies in Glattbrugg, Rümlang and at the airport promise a large number of potential jobs. One of the negative points is that the area is about two miles from the threshold of runway 34/16 of Zurich Airport and thus practically in the axis line of the runway. However, construction in the area is placing a strong emphasis on noise isolation of the buildings, with inhabitants reporting that the noise levels are not significant.

The Bubenholz Tunnel is a motorway tunnel in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It forms part of the A51 motorway, which links the A1 motorway with Zurich Airport. The tunnel is 550 metres (1,800 ft) long.The tunnel replaced several overpasses which existed until the early 2000s, with the intention of cutting noise in the nearby towns of Glattbrugg and Opfikon.

Sevanan Business School was a Swiss private business school. It offered management courses at undergraduate level and Masters level, accredited to London School of Marketing. Sevanan Business School provided international programs in business management & marketing management. There is suspicion the school closed with regards on being a part of diploma mills. The school was located at the World Trade Center in Zurich, Switzerland.

Leutschenpark is a public park in the northern Zürich neighbourhood of Leutschenbach. As the main park, the 161,459 ft² Leutschenpark and its flowing shapes bring a new accent to the district which was previously characterized by industry and service buildings. The former industrial and commercial district to the north of Zürich is being transformed into an attractive, mixed neighbourhood for living and working. This also includes first-class open spaces. The park compromises elements of a traditional city park and an urban square.

The Glatt Valley (German: Glattal or Glatttal) is a region and a river valley in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Kloten Balsberg is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zürich and municipality of Kloten. The station is located on a variant of the multi-stranded Zürich–Winterthur railway line and is served by S-Bahn line S7. It is an interchange point between the Zürich S-Bahn and the Stadtbahn Glattal light rail system, which serves an elevated tram stop, adjacent to the station and connected directly to the station platform by an elevated walkway. The tram stop, which is named Bahnhof Balsberg, is served by Zürich tram routes 10 and 12, operating on behalf of the Stadtbahn Glattal.Line S7 runs every half-hour throughout the day, with services extending to Winterthur in one direction, and to Rapperswil via Zürich in the other direction. Tram route 10 runs between four and eight times per hour, depending on the time of day, with services extending to Zurich Airport in one direction, and to Zürich in the other direction. Tram route 12 runs four times per hour, with services extending to the airport in one direction, and to Stettbach in the other direction. Journey time to Zürich Hauptbahnhof is 15 minutes by train, and 33 minutes by tram.The station was originally situated on the Wettingen–Effretikon line of the Swiss National Railway (Schweizerische Nationalbahn; SNB), which opened in 1877. This SNB became bankrupt in 1878. The line was then taken over by the Swiss Northeastern Railway (Schweizerische Nordostbahn; NOB), becoming part of their Zürich–Winterthur line. It has been part of the network of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) since 1902. Although the station is situated only 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the main terminal of Zurich Airport, it was bypassed by the opening, in 1980, of a new line directly serving the Zürich Flughafen railway station in the basement of that terminal. Since 2008, the Stadtbahn Glattal has provided a new direct route to the airport.

Oerlikon is a quarter in the northern part of the city of Zürich, Switzerland. A formerly independent municipality, Oerlikon was merged with Zürich in 1934 and forms today, together with Affoltern and Seebach, the city district 11.

The Sunrise Tower (German: Sonnenaufgangsturm) also known as Hochhaus Hagenholzstrasse is a high-rise office building in Zürich, Switzerland. Built between 2000 and 2004, the composition consists of two cojoined towers standing at 90 m (300 ft) respectively 72.5 m (238 ft), with the taller half being divided into 26 floors. They share the position of the 15th tallest buildings in Switzerland.

The A4 motorway in Switzerland begins from Schaffhausen, in northern Switzerland, and travels southward into central Switzerland. The general route of A4 is: Bargen - Schaffhausen - Winterthur - Zürich - Central Switzerland.

Saatlen is a quarter in the district 12 of Zürich, located in the Glatt Valley (German: Glattal). It was formerly a part of Schwamendingen municipality, which was incorporated into Zürich in 1934. The quarter has a population of 6,727 distributed on an area of 1.13 km².