Sandoy tunnel
The Sandoy Tunnel ( Faroese Sandoyartunnilin ) is a planned 10.6 km long submarine tunnel for car traffic between the islands of Streymoy and Sandoy in the Faroe Islands .
The tunnel will connect the place Skopun on Sandoy under the island of Hestur with the previous ferry port Gamlarætt on Streymoy.
A feasibility study for the tunnel was commissioned in 2004. On April 27, 2005, the national road construction company Landsverk Føroya presented the first concrete results to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. It was expected to cost 82 million euros (610 million Faroese crowns ), fully refinanced through toll payments , and a construction period of five to six years.
In April 2014, the parliament unanimously approved a deposit of 400 million kroner in a joint stock company, which is to complete the Sandoy tunnel and the Eysturoy tunnel between the two main islands within ten years for a total of 1.9 billion kroner - more than 5000 euros per Faroese . The joint financing represents a cross-subsidization of the more expensive Sandoy Tunnel by the Eysturoy Tunnel, which promises higher toll revenues. The construction of the Sandoy Tunnel is planned to start in 2018 and to be completed in 2021.
See also
Web links
- Landsverk: Feasibility study ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF download, 12 pages in Faroese, graphics and tables; 350 kB)
- Faroese News Bulletin from the Faroese Radio - week 17: “Sandoy Tunnel will be the world's longest under water tunnel” ( Memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). May 3, 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Af Kaj Joensen, Christian Loiborg: Færøerne får undersøiske tunneler for to billion kroner. In: ing.dk. Ingeniøren, April 14, 2014, accessed October 15, 2016 (Danish).
- ^ Ingi Samuelsen: Fylla út á Saltnesi fyri ferðsluni frá Eysturoyartunnlinum. In: portal.fo. Knassar, February 23, 2016, accessed October 15, 2016 (Faroese).
Coordinates: 61 ° 56 ′ 12.6 ″ N , 6 ° 52 ′ 25 ″ W.