Have you ever seen/heard of the Øresund Bridge? It’s a five-mile-long bridge (and underwater tunnel!) that connects Sweden and Denmark. It opened in 2000 and combines both motorway and railway travel.
The underwater highway is 2.52 miles long and is named the Drogden Tunnel. Two tubes in the tunnel carry railway tracks, two carry roads, and a fifth tube is provided for emergencies.
You can read all the details about this bridge here. Here’s a video that highlights the engineering feats of this bridge.
If anyone has travelled across this bridge, let us know!
DCG
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This 5-mile bridge/tunnel is truly impressive. I can’t imagine such a feat of engineering being made in the U.S. today, can you?
Dr E — You are so right, I doubt we would see such a marvelous genineering feat. Case in point, there needs to be a new bridge build between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. So far they have spent MILLIONS on feasibility studies. They even went far enough to say that if you used I-5, or I-84 freeways, you would pay a toll to just use the freeway–even if you were not crossing the bridge. Now, the State of Washington has decided that any gasoline fuel being hauled from anywhere in Washington to the State of Oregon will have an 8 cent tax levied on it. I don’t understand how this could be, that they could tax fuel before consumption by the end user. So now I guess the project if off–I say good on Oregon. I have used the old bridge to cross into Washington perhaps 15 times in the last 50 years. I am sick and tired of being nickled and dimed over things that I am not using. Let those who work in Vancouver, Washington, but work here in Portland, Oregon pay the toll for a new bridge–they are the biggest group of users of this particular bridge.
Gracie, the export tax is dead. Demorats cut it, probably because they know it would have contributed to mid-term slaughter that is hopefully coming their way this November.
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State Dems remove proposed fuel export tax from transportation package – MyNorthwest.com
DCG — Thank you for bringing to us this wondrous article. Being that I am 25% Swedish decent, second generation American–I was thrilled by this marvelous engineering fete.
Environmental impact studies and feasibility studies would spend millions without anything even happening.