GOESCHENEN - Police reported the first serious crawl toward the Gotthard road tunnel by late Friday afternoon as the Easter weekend began. Ticino and the lakes were the usual magnets. Rain on the approaches and snow still on some passes pushed some drivers back toward the railway.
SBB extra carriages, described in our holiday travel report, were already in the diagram. Seat reservations on the busiest InterCity trains were the difference between a plan and a corridor.
A system that still sorts itself
Domestic punctuality held. German connections into Basel did not. That sentence is becoming the country's transport proverb.