The goal is to open the tunnel by the end of this week.” The Gotthard road tunnel — infamous for its holiday-season traffic jams — connects Switzerland with northern Italy.

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a head-on collision between a car and a truck in Switzerland's Gotthard Tunnel has left two people dead and forced the temporary closure of the tunnel, a key transit ...

IN THE LOETSCHBERG BASE TUNNEL, Switzerland — With a ceremony that went off like a classic Swiss timepiece, officials Friday inaugurated the world’s longest overland tunnel, a 21-mile-l… ...

Gotthard overtakes the 53.9-kilometer Seikan Tunnel in northern Japan as the longest rail tunnel in the world, relegating the 50.5-kilometer Channel Tunnel between Britain and France into third place.

For some in Switzerland the incident has revived unhappy memories of the October 2001 crash in the nearby Gotthard road tunnel. Two trucks collided near the south portal, sparking a 1,200 degree ...

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) in Switzerland is the product of 17 years of work, including cutting through solid rock at depths of up to 7,500 feet. It cost $12 billion — as well as the lives ...

The wreckage of a truck stands in the Gotthard Tunnel near the village Hospental, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Police say a head-on collision between a car and the truck in the tunnel ...

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a head-on collision between a car and a truck in Switzerland's Gotthard Tunnel has left two people dead and forced the temporary closure of the tunnel, a key transit route ...

Wednesday 1 June 2016 sees the festive opening in Switzerland of the longest and deepest train tunnel in the world. The tunnel extends for 57 kilometres to a depth of up to 2300 meters below the ...

A head-on collision Wednesday between a car and a truck in Switzerland's Gotthard Tunnel has left two people dead and forced the temporary closure of the tunnel, a key transit route through the Alps.

Police say a head-on collision between a car and a truck in Switzerland's Gotthard tunnel has left two people dead and forced the temporary closure of the tunnel, a key transit route through the Alps ...