Normal operations in the Gotthard Base Tunnel will not be possible until September 2024. The southern Swiss canton of Ticino is irritated by what it considers slow communication from the Swiss federal railways.
Fabio Regazzi, president of the Swiss Trade Association, considers the estimated time for the tunnel repairs to be inconceivable and unacceptable, according to a report on Swiss public radio, SRF, on Monday. Regazzi has the impression that the federal railways is hardly making the greatest effort to reduce this time.
Regazzi also criticised the federal railways’ late communication. Christian Vitta, director of finance and economics for Ticino, agrees. The timetable change is already due in December and only now are they finding out how long the repairs will actually take, and therefore also when the second tunnel of the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be fully accessible again, he said.
Vitta said he would have liked to have known earlier. “We could have prepared better for this long period if we had known about it earlier,” he said. ...