Ten-kilometre traffic jam at Swiss Gotthard tunnel

The traffic in front of the north portal of the Gotthard road tunnel was backed up for ten kilometres between Erstfeld and Göschenen on Monday afternoon. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This meant a waiting time of one hour and 40 minutes. + Why is the Gotthard base tunnel so important? This was announced by the Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) via the short message service X. Traffic jams had already formed over a length of around ten kilometres in front of both portals of the Gotthard road tunnel at the weekend on both Saturday and Sunday. Translated from German by DeepL/mga How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. If you want to know ...