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Couldn't find anything about Switzerland here, so unless I'm gravely mistaken, please update me!
 
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A9 between Leuk/Susten-Ost and Gampel-Steg-West (both are semi-interchanges) opens to traffic tomorrow. It is a 7.5 km segment of motorway through the Rhône Valley. Construction took 12 years, although most of the time the works were dormant.









Will this Motorway ever be complete? Its a neverending story like the German A1 :cheers:
 
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A4 Schaffhausen

A4 in the northern city of Schaffhausen will be expanded to a four lane motorway. ASTRA has approved its plans, which will now move into review and consultation phase.

The plan is to expand the Fäsenstaub Tunnel to two tubes, and turn the present two-lane A4 north of the tunnel into a double-deck motorway (it probably will replace the current double-deck structure, the wording isn't too clear on it).

The Schaffhausen-Nord exit will be eliminated, as a compensation, the Mutzentäli interchange will be reconstructed for access to Schaffhausen.

The project has a budget of 473 million CHF (€ 439 million, or € 125 million per kilometer). It is expected to begin construction in 2025, which will take 8-9 years.

Presently some 30,000 vehicles per day drive through the single-tube Fäsenstaub Tunnel.

http://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/nationals...eite-tunnelroehre-fuer-schaffhausen-ld.131250

http://www.cholfirsttunnel.ch/images/medien/20161128_Medienmitteilung_Generelles_Projekt.pdf
 
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A4 in the northern city of Schaffhausen will be expanded to a four lane motorway. ASTRA has approved its plans, which will now move into review and consultation phase.
Apparently still no plans about closing the gap between the Swiss and German motorway networks here.
 
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I've noticed many large motorway projects in Switzerland are scheduled around 2025 (the 2020s decade). Do they have that much more funding available around that time, or is it just a general idea that it will take years before construction starts (a 'moving date' for when construction may start).

Projects mentioned so far;

* A1/A6 upgrades at Bern
* A1 widening east of Solothurn
* A1 Zürich Northern Bypass
* A1 possible Glattalautobahn near Zürich
* A2 Osttangente Basel
* A2 Luzern Bypass
* A2 Gotthard Tunnel renovation / potential second tube
* A4 Schaffhausen expansion
* A4 Axenstrasse upgrade
* A5 western leg of the Biel/Bienne Bypass
* A9 remaining segments between Sierre and Brig
 
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A16 'Transjurane'

Some photos of the newly opened segment of A16 between Delémont and Choindez. The 3287 meter long Tunnel du Choindez is only a single tube. A16 is overall quite expensive at € 6 billion / € 71 million/km, in particular considering that quite a number of tunnels are only operated as a single tube.







 
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^^ There were some questions concerning road cleaning services coming up after this crash. The spokesperson of Bundesamt für Strassen "Astra" (Federal office of roads), Thomas Rohrbach, emphasized that despite all efforts of cleaning the roads, funded by Astra, motorists cannot take black surfaces for granted.
"Everybody has to assume his/her personal responsibility. Not everything can be in perfect state at any moment. One has always to adapt to given conditions".

http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/news/story/-Strassen-koennen-nicht-jederzeit-perfekt-sein--27284111
 
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It's interesting that there are so many different fonts in developed countries. I mean, you'd think these were thoroughly tested and evaluated before (and after) implementation, yet there are so many different fonts, some of them are very different from another. Which make it hard to believe they all came out as the best possible font.
 
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There is even an ongoing dispute, as seen on this forum as well as between different countries, on whether or not to use all-caps.
 
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NAF

Several referendums are held today in Switzerland, one of them includes the creation of a national road fund (Nationalstrassen- und Agglomerationsverkehrs-Fonds / NAF).

It should create a budget of approximately 3 billion CHF per year. The national road system would be expanded by 400 kilometers (transferring cantonal roads to the national road system) and bottlenecks will be dealt with.

The NAF will succeed the Infrastructure Fund. It would be funded by the fuel tax supplmental fee and the vignette revenue. In addition, new sources of funding will flow to the NAF, the car tax and 10% of the fuel tax revenue, which are going to the general fund presently. In addition, electric cars will pay some kind of fees from 2020 and if needed, the fuel tax could be increased from 30 to 34 rappen / liter.

An SRF poll shows it has a good chance of succeeding, with 62% in favor and only 28% not in favor (10% undecided).

A map of cantonal roads to become part of the national road network (thick pink lines) and bottleneck relieving (thin pink lines).
 
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^^ What?

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A new tunnel will probably be built near Airolo (southern portal of the Gotthard tunnel) to protect the village from noise, give locals some flat terrain, and dump the excavated material. Airolo junction will be modified, according to the drawing slowing traffic going on the pass road by building roundabouts and building more curved ramps (necessary because of the new tunnel). The length of the tunnel is not yet decided, but it will be around 1 km.

Location: https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech...mp=18641231,,,&X=153594.60&Y=690058.59&zoom=9

A first draft:



Very little more infos on http://www4.ti.ch/sala-stampa/comunicati-stampa/cartella-stampa/?idCartella=152350 (in Italian).
 
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The Rawil project was abandoned way before the Lötschberg base tunnel was approved. A new car shuttle was proposed in the Lötschberg base tunnel as an alternative to the Rawil Autostrasse, but this latetr wasn't abandoned because of the LBT. The Alpen Initiative laws (which the government does not respect, by the way) forbid more road capacity through the Simplon, not the Lötschberg.

It is just that nobody there seems to want a road between Wallis-Valais and Bern, that's all. I nevern read recent (after 1990) articles, nor popular initiatives, nor parliamentary acts, nothing, demanding such road.
 
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Brünig Pass

An upgrade of the A8 across the Brünig Pass is not feasible with base tunnels, a study concluded.

https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/de...teilungen/anzeige-meldungen.msg-id-65665.html

A 5.8 kilometer long base tunnel is projected to cost 520 million CHF, a 3.8 kilometer tunnel is projected to cost 400 million CHF. That is considered too much for the traffic volume (7200 vehicles per day).

While understandable, if it was in Norway, a tunnel would've certainly been built. The Norwegians construct tunnels like this for less than 1000 vehicles per day.
 
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A1 Zürich - Winterthur

The Cantonal Council of Zürich has voted in favor of the Glattalautobahn and the A1 expansion to Winterthur.

The Glattalautobahn is a bypass of the existing A1 from the Zürich-Nord interchange to the Brüttisellen interchange, while A1 will be expanded to eight lanes from there to Winterthur.

The Glattalautobahn was approved with 121-52 votes and the A1 expansion was approved with 107-63 votes, so a clear majority for both projects.

http://www.20min.ch/schweiz/zuerich/story/Neue-Autobahn-und-acht-Spuren-fuer-die-A1-26811175
 
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