Ceneri Base Tunnel
2000 - 2050
The Ceneri Base Tunnel, which is 15.4 km long, completes AlpTransit’s St Gotthard axis in Ticino. The tunnel has been in use since December 2020 and took twelve years to build, costing a total of 3.6 billion francs.
The completion of AlpTransit has boosted Switzerland’s railway and traffic transfer policy. The Ceneri Base Tunnel marks an end and a new beginning for an attractive railway!
Simonetta Sommaruga (federal councillor)
In addition to the new base tunnels, Switzerland also invested 1.7 billion francs in improving access to the base tunnels, focusing particularly on new signal systems that make it possible to reduce the intervals between trains, and on small expansions.
