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==Traffic== [[File:Gottardo.jpg|thumb|South portal: Intercity on the base line and regional train on the vertex line]] Since the opening date on 1 June 2016, between 130 and 160 trains on an average working day operated through the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which in March 2019 marked the 100,000th transit. Around two-thirds of the passages were freight trains and the remaining quota were passenger trains, both national and international.<ref>{{cite web |first = David |last = Burroughs |url = https://www.railjournal.com/regions/europe/100000th-train-travels-through-the-gotthard-base-tunnel/ |title = 100,000th train travels through the Gotthard Base Tunnel |date = 6 March 2019 |website = [[International Railway Journal]] |archive-url = https://archive.today/20190709081820/https://www.railjournal.com/regions/europe/100000th-train-travels-through-the-gotthard-base-tunnel/ |archive-date = 9 July 2019 |url-status = live |access-date = 9 July 2019 }}</ref> ===Projections=== The number of projected trains per day was 180–260 freight trains and 50 (65 from 2020) passenger trains.<ref name=SBBoperation>{{cite web |title=The Gotthard Base Tunnel |url=https://company.sbb.ch/en/media/background-information/gotthard-base-tunnel.html |publisher=[[SBB CFF FFS]] |location=Bern, Switzerland |date=2016 |access-date=17 June 2016 |archive-date=20 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620135208/http://www.sbb.ch/en/group/media/dossier-medienschaffende/gotthard-basistunnel.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ===Passengers=== After the opening of the tunnel there was an increase in passengers crossing the trans-alpine line, with 2.3 million passengers in the first 8 months, an increase of 30% over the previous year.<ref name=swissinfo>{{cite news |title=Gotthard rail tunnel boosts north-south traffic by a third |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/railway-travel_gotthard-rail-tunnel-boosts-north-south-traffic-by-a-third/43382304 |author=swissinfo.ch/ug |date=2 August 2017 |newspaper=swissinfo.ch |publisher=SWI swissinfo.ch, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR |location=Bern, Switzerland |access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> In August 2017, an average of 10,400 people crossed the tunnel daily. Train services from Italy to Switzerland through the line are expected to become faster from 2020,{{needs update |date=September 2021}} with the opening of the [[Ceneri Base Tunnel]], with an expected further increase in passenger numbers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Green |first=Anitra |newspaper= International Railway Journal |location=Falmouth, Cornwall, UK |publisher=Simmons-Boardman Publishing Inc. |title=Strong start for Gotthard Base Tunnel |url=http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/strong-start-for-gotthard-base-tunnel.html |date=4 August 2017 |access-date=19 December 2017}}</ref> There are plans for a train service between [[Zürich]] and [[Milan]] with a journey time of 2:45 hours, down from 3:50 hours.<ref name=swissinfo/> ===Freight=== {{convert|67,000|t|e6lbs|abbr=off}} on 120 trains passed through the tunnel each day during the first half year of operation.<ref name=swiFig>{{cite news |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/wirtschaft/gotthard_laengster-eisenbahntunnel-der-welt-ist-fast-zu-erfolgreich/43218526 |title=Längster Eisenbahntunnel der Welt ist fast zu erfolgreich |publisher=SWI swissinfo.ch – a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR |location=Zürich, Switzerland |language=de |date=1 June 2017 |first=Luigi |last=Jorio |access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref>
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