“An interminable queue of 14 kilometers of traffic jams forms on the Gotthard” (RTS info)

https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/13131512-une-interminable-file-de-14-kilometres-de-bouchon-se-forme-au-gothard.html

20 comments

  2. The difference is whether it is a systematic every day occurrence or just for specific events.

    I find that traffic in Switzerland doesn’t suck because of the number of people or cars but because it was intentionally designed to.

  3. If the Gotthard handled the kind of traffic of the spring long weekends it would be massively over-engineered. This is just peak overuse and people who get themselves stuck every year are selber schuld.

    Take the train or travel on another day.

  4. I mean, if people are morons and go to a route thats historically awful at a particular time of the year and be surprised, that there is traffic?

    Then I’ll call them morons!

  7. When a 2 hour traffic slowdown on a holiday weekend is national news, you have solved like 90% of traffic problems. Commenters from more car-centric places have a completely different frame of reference for what even constitutes traffic.

  9. I was 8 hours stuck over Bernardino and each highway exit was blocked off by a high Viz man who told me i couldn’t drive through the side roads shortcut because the villages had blocked the roads to avoid traffic spilling through…. Is this normal behavior?

  10. theres jams here every day, i commute in the area of aargau and zürich and this is worse to my old german big city… way worse as it’s every the same locations.
    fuckcars indeed if övv wasnt that expensive

  11. This happens for like 3 weeks a year, not that bad.

    Also I think one of the reasons why there is sometimes a lot of traffic is the lack of trains, but not in Switzerland, we have both the GBT and the old rail tunnel that have really big capacity, and if needed could even be expanded (like increase the frequency of the trains), but the lack of trains in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy.

    Most of the peple stuck there in traffic are germans going to italy on vacation, so just passing by Switzerland. Germany should step up its train game, since DB got privatized it went downhill faster than my granma falling off the stairs.

    Germany is ultimately (part) of the reason we can’t fully utilize the GBT to its maximum capacity, outside of Switzerland, especially in the north there is no capacity.
    The GBT was basically built with the purpose of moving cargo, for example from Venezia to Rotterdam, two of the biggest ports in the continent, Italy should be on track with the expansion project but Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands are behind schedule

  12. That’s something different though. It’s tradition, the people stuck at Gotthard want it that way. It s part of the whole short holiday on an overcrowded campground at the Lago Maggiore experience.

  13. WTF you smoking, bro? I visited 6 years ago and saw daily rush hour traffic jams on A1 east bound heading into Zurich. There are definitely traffic jams

  15. I really don’t understand this people. they have 4 days of vacation, 1 day to get down with traffic jam, one day to come back with traffic jam so they only have 2 days left of vacation.
    If I had 4 days of vacation I wouldn’t go to a place where I know I will waste 2 days on the road

  19. i was heading home and was kinda amazed, and glad i wasnt on the other side of the highway… until I was.

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