{"id":112126,"date":"2026-08-06T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/112126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:00:18","slug":"swiss-gotthard-road-tunnel-to-close-for-12-nights-in-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/112126\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Gotthard road tunnel to close for 12 nights in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

The Gotthard Tunnel will be closed for 12 nights in August <\/p>\n

Keystone-SDA <\/p>\n

The Gotthard road tunnel in southern Switzerland will be closed to traffic for 12 nights between August 10 and 27, 11pm to 5am.\n<\/p>\n

Listen to the article <\/p>\n

Listening the article <\/p>\n

Toggle language selector <\/p>\n

English (US) <\/p>\n

English (British) <\/p>\n

Generated with artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n

This content was published on <\/p>\n

August 5, 2026 – 12:05\n<\/p>\n

The closure for maintenance work will only apply at night time from Monday to Thursday, said the Federal Roads Office.<\/p>\n

+ The Gotthard Base Tunnel ten years on<\/a><\/p>\n

The overnight restrictions will not apply on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

The works are being carried out for safety reasons and aim to prevent the build-up of stress in the individual elements of the intermediate slab. By making separation cuts, these structural elements will be lightened as a precautionary measure to reduce the risk of damage.<\/p>\n

The statement adds that stresses in the intermediate slab are continuously monitored via a measurement system.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a crack had formed in the intermediate slab near the northern portal and some fragments of concrete had fallen onto the carriageway. This may have been caused by movements in the mountain.<\/p>\n

\n More<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

More <\/p>\n

Gotthard tunnel safer ten years after inferno <\/p>\n

\n

This content was published on <\/p>\n

Oct 20, 2011 <\/p>\n

The date was October 24, 2001, the time 9.39am. Inside the Gotthard tunnel, traffic was running smoothly. Suddenly, one kilometre short of the south entrance, a truck veered out of control. \u201cI tried to avoid it, but it just came right at me,\u201d said Italian truck driver Bruno Saba afterwards. When the crash happened, Saba\u2026 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Read more: Gotthard tunnel safer ten years after inferno
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

+ How we produce English news<\/a>
Translated from Italian, reviewed by an\u00a0English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Articles in this story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gotthard Tunnel will be closed for 12 nights in August Keystone-SDA The Gotthard road tunnel in southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,312,100,103,41,17,2726],"class_list":["post-112126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-various","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-transport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117045626723769168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}