- At 11:20 a.m., vehicles heading south on the Gotthard are backed up over a length of 11 kilometers.
- The waiting time is currently around two hours.
- Vehicles are also backed up for around 4 kilometers to the north.
It is currently summer travel time in Switzerland. In twelve cantons, the school holidays start on Saturday, in several other cantons they are already underway. That leads to a lot of traffic. The traffic situation is unlikely to improve as the weekend progresses. The Viasuisse traffic service expects a very high volume of traffic to continue.
The traffic jam at the Gotthard apparently never completely cleared up on Saturday night either. A high volume of passengers is also expected at Swiss airports this weekend.
Traffic on the roads is likely to remain high throughout the summer. Traffic jams in front of the two portals of the Gotthard tunnel are “practically certain” by the end of August, according to the traffic forecast from the Via Suisse traffic service. Basically, the traffic development since the flattening of the corona pandemic is more difficult to predict, said Barbara Roelli from Viasuisse at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. “But we definitely expect intensive traffic in the summer.”