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 Sozialarchiv
After the disaster in the Gothard tunnel, Swiss national councillor Fabio Pedrina, the President of the Alpine Initiative, suggested restricting truck transit trips, based primarily on safety and health factors. He also launched the introduction of an Alpine Crossing Exchange. (Postulate 01.3773).
Before the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, a big demonstration is held on and near the Fréjus motorway. A dozen solidarity actions are also held in France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Eleven people die in a tragic accident in the St. Gotthard road tunnel
At a press conference in Bern the Alpine Initiative supports the demand of the population of the Chamonix valley, who demand that lorries are no longer allowed to use the Mont Blanc tunnel after its reopening.
The Alpine Initiative asks the railways to increase their provision and make it more attractive and to thus make a contribution to reducing traffic jams at the St. Gotthard tunnel
The Alpine Initiative shows solidarity with the population of the Mont Blanc area and demands that the tunnel must not be reopened for lorries. Instead, the government should push through the transfer of freight traffic to from road to rail.
The Avanti Initiative which, among other things, asks for a second bore for the St. Gotthard road tunnel, i.e. the doubling of its capacity is submitted to the Swiss authorities. The Alpine Initiative, together with 20 other environmental organisations, gets organised to fight this push for new roads.
The Liechtenstein population is asked to vote on an initiative similar to the Swiss model. It targets the increasing transit traffic from Germany via Lake Constance and Liechtenstein in the direction of the San Bernardino Pass.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the St Gotthard road tunnel, the Alpine Initiative dresses the devil’s stone near the motorway in red, erects a commemorative sculpture by Fredy Odermatt and holds a demonstration party to draw people’s attention to the problem of increasing transit traffic.
An in-depth study by the Alpine Initiative demonstrates the effects of Alpine transit traffic on air pollution and thus the quality of life in Alpine valleys.