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  • Tunnel instead of bottleneck: SBB upgrades line between Zurich and Winterthur

    Tunnel instead of bottleneck: SBB upgrades line between Zurich and Winterthur

    Today, all rail traffic between Zurich and Winterthur uses the only double-track connection via Effretikon. This section of the line is therefore a veritable bottleneck. To eliminate the bottleneck, SBB is upgrading the line on behalf of the federal government. A new double-track line through the Brüttener Tunnel as well as the expansion of four stations and existing lines should bring relief.

    The core of the Zurich-Winterthur multi-track project is the Brüttener Tunnel. It will be about 9 kilometres long and have two tunnel tubes with one track each. Trains will travel at 160 kilometres per hour. The journey time in the tunnel is around 3 minutes.

    The northern portal of the Brüttener Tunnel is at Tössmühle before Winterthur. The tunnel tubes divide and end in two tunnel portals in the south: at Bassersdorf and at Dietlikon. This route is the fastest and most efficient connection between Zurich and Winterthur, as it connects both Zurich Airport (via Bassersdorf) and Zurich HB (via Dietlikon) directly to Winterthur. Because most of the new double track runs underground, no major interventions in the landscape will be visible after construction.

    The project will increase the rail capacity between Zurich and Winterthur by 30 per cent to around 900 trains and 156,000 passengers per day. Two long-distance lines will run between Zurich and Winterthur every quarter of an hour in future.

    The project will be made public at the end of May 2023. If the project progresses without any appeal proceedings, construction work is currently expected to start in the mid-2020s and the service could be put into operation in the mid-2030s.

    With the “2035 expansion stage”, the federal government is investing around CHF 12.89 billion in numerous projects to expand the railway infrastructure throughout Switzerland. The “Zurich-Winterthur multi-track” project is the largest of these projects, with estimated costs of around CHF 2.9 billion.

  • The canton of Zurich and SBB are planning bike and bus projects together

    The canton of Zurich and SBB are planning bike and bus projects together

    The Canton of Zurich wants to work more closely with SBB on upcoming projects. According to a cantonal press release , both partners want to use synergies and save costs. For the canton of Zurich it has been shown that it makes sense to integrate the three cantonal projects to expand the bike and bus network into the major Brüttenertunnel project and to work on these projects together with the SBB.

    "The Brüttenertunnel project offers the opportunity to hand in hand the most extensive bike project to date in the Canton of Zurich and to expand public transport in the Glattal region," said Economics Director Carmen Walker Späh as quoted in the press release. According to the overall traffic concept of the Canton of Zurich, the share of bicycle traffic in the total traffic volume is to be increased continuously to 8 percent by 2030.

    The government council has therefore applied for a property loan of CHF 73.1 million from the cantonal council. The aim is to realize the pilot project of a fast bike route from Zurich-Oerlikon via Wallisellen and Dübendorf to the Zurich Oberland "barrier-free, coherent, safe and comfortable".

    A main bicycle connection from the Im Lampitzäckern quarter in Dietlikon along the SBB route in the direction of Baltenswil, a main bicycle connection, is intended as a feeder to this rapid cycle route. It is also part of this synergy project. With the redesign of Bahnhofstrasse, the cycle route in Dietlikon and Wangen-Brüttisellen is to be continuously expanded to become the main connection and the network gap in the direction of Baltenswil is to be closed.

    Finally, in the course of the construction work on the Brüttener Tunnel, the Baltensilerstrasse underpass in Bassersdorf will be removed. In addition, the canton is planning a bus lane in order to be able to prefer the bus service from Baltenswil to Bassersdorf train station.

    The planning approval process for the Brüttener Tunnel and the three accompanying projects will run from 2023 to 2025. The accompanying projects will be handed over to the public in stages before the tunnel is due to go into operation at the end of 2034 at the earliest.