Winter evening autoroute traffic near Morges (Etoy)

Morges, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The electronic signs that warn drivers of slowdowns and accidents on Lake Geneva autoroutes, as well as the Internet service that provides these alerts, are no longer in service, as of Tuesday 1 December. The system has been dismantled to make way for a new real-time system that is part of the widening to six lanes of the Morges-Ecublens stretch on the A1 autoroute near Lausanne. The old system, set up to help drivers during the construction phase that often saw the road reduced to two lanes, will be dismantled 1-4 December to allow tests to be run on the new system for the next six weeks.

The automatic signaling system to alert drivers they may use the extra lanes will be put into operation in the second half of January 2010.

The lanes will be open mainly during heavy traffic times.

The old electronic captors have been used by RSR on its radio traffic alerts and on the road widening programme’s web site traffic alerts at www.autoroutesuisse.ch: these are  no longer available.

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