June 2002 – Massive demonstrations at the Mont Blanc tunnel
Several thousand people, including activists from the Alpine Initiative, block the entry to the Mont Blanc tunnel to demonstrate against the use of the tunnel by heavy lorries.
In 2016, the Alpine Initiative handed over its archive (with annual reports and accounts, correspondence, files on actions and campaigns, topic dossiers and printed matter) to the Swiss Social Archives. The holdings can be consulted in the reading room of the Swiss Social Archive without any restrictions on use.
Schweizerisches SozialarchivSeveral thousand people, including activists from the Alpine Initiative, block the entry to the Mont Blanc tunnel to demonstrate against the use of the tunnel by heavy lorries.
The Alpine Initiative proposes the introduction of an Alpine Crossing Exchange. This is to help regulate traffic at its source.
Together with the Swiss Doctors for the Environment, the Alpine Initiative shows how much of a negative effect permanent noise pollution has.
The first report on the transfer of traffic by the Swiss government shows that transport trends in Switzerland are moving in the right direction, but that there is still a long way to go.
The international transit conference in Munich discusses sustainable mobility in the Alpine region.
The Alpine tunnel petition is submitted in Bern with around 137,000 signatures.
The international transit conference in Locarno addresses the dangers of transporting hazardous material.
The Alpine Initiative asks for a European-wide introduction of a kilometre-based tax on heavy goods vehicles along the lines of the Swiss model.
The launching of the Alpine tunnel petition in Göschenen, Airolo and Thusis opens the campaign against the doubling of the capacity of the St. Gotthard road tunnel.
Together with 93 other environmental and transport organisations from across Europe, the Alpine Initiative launches the mountain manifesto, a catalogue of demands for an international policy on Alpine transport that is environmentally friendly and socially compatible.