1. December 2012

The Alpine Initiative drew attention to the fact that the Swiss government had miscalculated the costs of a second bore for the Gotthard road tunnel. The proposed piggyback solution is cheaper than claimed by the government, while the construction and maintenance of two road tunnels is significantly more expensive. This means that transporting trucks via a piggyback solution would actually be 2.8 to 3.4 billion francs cheaper than building a second tunnel.