Following heavy rainfall on Saturday and during the night, the Rhone River and its tributaries have flooded. Keystone / Jean-Christophe Bott Due to flooding in canton Valais, southern Switzerland, the A9 motorway between Sierre and Sion is closed. The entire canton is on alert, cantonal authorities said on Sunday. This content was published on June...
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Swiss traffic plans adapt to flood damaged A13
Following the closure of the A13 in Misox, Swiss Transport Minister Albert Rösti wants to manage vacation traffic in the summer as well as possible. This content was published on June 25, 2024 – 14:34 Do you want to read our weekly top stories? Subscribe here. The usual night-time closures of the Gotthard tunnel are to...
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Engineers blew up a 110-year-old bridge after they ‘forgot’ to get approval
What kind of repercussions are there if you make a mistake at work? Maybe you pump the wrong gas for a driver in New Jersey, shred the wrong screenplay and break a budding writer’s heart or accidentally use soap on the Cybertruck production line leading to a massive recall. Whatever mistake you made, it can’t...
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Survey: air travel most popular way to go on holidays for Swiss
In Switzerland, 46% of adults want to fly on holiday in 2024, while at least a third will travel by car and only just under 15% by train. Keystone / Christian Beutler Despite the climate crisis, flying is the most popular mode of transport to head on holidays – particularly for young, urban and high-income...
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Senior Swiss women prevail in landmark climate case at Europe’s human rights court | CBC News
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heat waves. The European court’s decision on the case, brought by more than 2,000 women, could have...