- The return traffic after the Easter holidays came to a standstill in the morning at the Gotthard.
- On the A2 motorway, cars are backed up for seven kilometers in front of the Gotthard portal in Airolo.
- The Viasuisse traffic service expects the peak of the wave of return journeys from noon to the evening.
Some of the holidaymakers had already started their return journey on Sunday. There was also a traffic jam in the afternoon, which at times grew to up to seven kilometers. Due to the Easter holidays, Viasuisse expected traffic jams and waiting times again and again during the week.
Return journey traffic jam before the Gotthard on Easter Monday
At the beginning of Easter this year, there was a huge traffic jam on Good Friday in the south. The sheet metal snake in front of the Gotthard north portal in Göschenen (UR) grew at times to a length of 22 kilometers. The waiting time to get through was three and a half hours. Only at Easter 1998 was the tin snake longer at 25 kilometers due to the onset of winter.
No Easter jam during pandemic
In the last two Corona years, the traffic jams had become rarer. In 2020, the authorities had generally advised against traveling to the southern canton due to the tense corona situation in Ticino, and the Easter traffic jam had not materialized at all. Traffic jams were recorded in 2021, but to a comparatively small extent.