Hi guys - I’ll be driving from Zurich to Nice tomorrow and I realized that google maps directs me through Chur. Does anyone know what is happening with Gotthard? 
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I noticed last year, driving back from Greece via Ascona ferry, that Google Maps was not reliable when it came to the passes. In our case it failed to show a road closure on the road up to the Gd. St. Bernard, had us really worried for a while when we thought the whole pass/tunnel was closed, which would have added several hundred km to our route, given that the Mt Blanc genuinely was closed, but in fact only added about 15 mins to the journey.
So in your case Google is clearly wrong again, as it is indeed marking the Gotthard closed, so I guess the lesson for anyone crossing the alps is Don’t Believe Google Maps without additional verification,
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Thank you both , that’s super helpful and reassuring 
It’s easter and google is probably assuming there will be a 3 hour queue at the Gotthard. Most years you need your head examined if you want to drive south over easter but this year with the weather down there it might be a bit easier.
The San Bernardino route is of course reserved for those of us living in the east and ZH plated cars are forbidden.
Edit - seems many haven’t read the weather forecast, currently there’s a 14 Km queue and a 2 hour 20 minute delay
Did Chur yesterday (as google routed away from Gottardo). A friend of mine who did the Gottardo was sat in a queue for 2 hours before being able to get into the tunnel…
Trust google 
No, don’t trust google. They were stating that the tunnel was closed., so even if you tried it wasn’t possible (yesterday) to get it to route you through the tunnel.
Instead trust the Gotthard website linked to earlier, who were indeed predicting delays of up to two hours.
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I was on google yesterday, 90 minute delay at the Gottardo website when I checked.
G-maps routed me around some tiny road, which bypassed part of the queue (in the tunnels before the gottardo, when driving from Italy).
I joined just before the petrol station in the south; spent 60 minutes in stop-go-traffic before entering the tunnel.
Again, trust google 
Just because it got it right for you once? Even a stopped clock…
It may be fine if it says it’s closed when in reality it’s just an hour and a half delay, and great that it finds the best alternative, but it’s times like I described, where it fails to show an actual road closure, that worry me.
Fair, but the times it fails to show a road closure means that someone (you probably) are the first person to encounter that… and you need to flag it as such for the benefit of others
Or, and you may poo-poo the idea, just check other easily-accessible sources of information to verify it?
Just a thought.
You should be proud to invest your time and braingrease for free, to the direct benefit of an already very profitable megacorporation.
How could anybody have a problem with that?
The Grand St. Bernard remains closed. Alternatives include Simplon and Mt. Blanc.
I hear that the Montblanc tunnel will be closed soon for construction works inside the tunnel. Is another tunnel going to be built next to it?
The good thing is that if you ran out of petrol inside the tunnel they will tow you out for free.
The Mont Blanc Tunnel will be completely closed for maintenance from early September to mid-December 2025. This closure is part of planned renovation works, with the tunnel shut to all traffic from Monday, 2 September 2025, at 17:00 until Monday, 16 December 2025, at 17:00.
No they are not twinning the tunnel. It is, and will remain, a single bore with one lane in each direction.
Now partially reopened.