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- Travelers to the south need patience on Saturday morning in front of the north portal of the Gotthard tunnel.
- The traffic column was backed up just before 9 a.m. on 14 kilometers, as the Touring Club Switzerland (TCS) announced on the short message service Twitter.
- Contrary to traffic forecasts, there was only a three-kilometre traffic jam on Friday evening before Pentecost.
According to the TCS traffic information service, the waiting time between Altdorf (UR) and Göschenen (UR) was two hours and 20 minutes. At around 6:30 a.m. the motorcade was already eight kilometers long.
In the run-up to Saturday noon, the TCS expected intensive traffic. As soon as the waiting time exceeds an hour, according to the traffic information service Viasuisse, it is worthwhile for travelers from the greater Zurich area and eastern Switzerland to detour via the San Bernardino route on the A13.
According to the TCS, the return traffic should again lead to a sheet metal avalanche on Whit Monday and on Tuesday of the coming week, then at the Gotthard south portal. The association therefore recommends motorists to start their return journey late on Monday evening or on Tuesday night.
Many vacationers over the Pentecost weekend
The southern side of the Alps attracts many short vacationers over the long Pentecost weekend. Last year, the sheet metal avalanche at Whitsun was around 14 kilometers long in a southerly direction.
But that was by no means record-breaking: in 2022, at Easter, Viasuisse measured the second-longest traffic jam since the Gotthard tunnel opened in 1980. At that time, a traffic jam length of 22 kilometers – combined with a waiting time of three and a half hours – was recorded on Good Friday. This queue length was only exceeded in 1998. At that time, the onset of winter caused 25 kilometers of traffic jams.
SRF 4 News, May 27, 2023, 8:06 a.m.; srf/baus;geta
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