4,500 visitors to Camorino construction site open day

The construction site open day organised by AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd. today, Saturday, September 10, 2011, at Camorino, once more attracted many interested visitors. The approximately 4,500 participants obtained on-site information about the state of work on the Ceneri Base Tunnel.

Large numbers already arrived in the morning of this warm, late-summer day: around 4,500 people from all over Switzerland and Lombardy visited the AlpTransit construction sites at Camorino and Vigana. A guided tour of the Nodo di Camorino gave visitors an opportunity to inspect the already completed and still in progress built structures, while at Vigana they could also experience the atmosphere inside the tunnel. At various information stands the responsible representatives of AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd., the local construction management, and others involved in the project provided information.

The Canton of Ticino radio station Rete Uno (RSI) transmitted visitors' impressions from the construction site.

With a length of 15.4 km between the north portal at Vigana, near Camorino, and the South Portal at Vezia, near Lugano, after the Gotthard and Lötschberg Base Tunnels the Ceneri Base Tunnel is Switzerland's third-largest tunnel project. Only with the Ceneri Base Tunnel as the logical continuation and extension of the Gotthard Base Tunnel will the new Gotthard line become a continuous flat route through the Alps.

The Nodo di Camorino section comprises the overground railway line from Giubiasco railway station to the north portal of the Ceneri Base Tunnel. The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational in 2019.