Mosi Tunnel
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The in 1964 opened ’’’Mosi Tunnel’’’ is a motorway tunnel in Switzerland. It is situ-ated on the A4 and also main part of the bypass of Brunnen SZ which leads between Brunnen North and Brunnen South. The two-lanes-tunnel (one lane for each direction) is 1100 metres long and links the motorway A4 with the Axenstrasse. It is the longest tunnel in the Canton of Schwyz until the Morschacher Tunnel opens in 2020 between Brunnen North and Sisikon. Then will the Mositunnel lose its status as a motorway tunnel, it will then “only” be a main street tunnel.
[edit] Security
Three dramatical crashes between 13 months and a bad feedback from an international tunnel test started many discussions about the security of the tunnel. It hasn’t a service tunnel for safe people although one is planned. Some drivers told that their windshield fogs up at the entrance to the north end of the tunnel.
[edit] Accidents
In three car accidents during November 2007 and December 2008 died three people and at least three were injured. All these crashes happened as the same: A car drove from north to south, gets on the oncoming lane and crashed into a lorry which gets out of control. In the first two cases, following cars could brake or make way, but in the third crash in December 2008 the lorry crash in an innocent car (and in the wall).
[edit] Measures
Some measures are going to be installing: The midline which separates the two lanes will be reflecting. Arrows which shows the right direction have been painted already, but these have been criticized by motorcyclists because of danger of slipping on wet roads
Coordinates: 46°59′42″N 8°36′52″E / 46.995°N 8.6144444444444°E
