Viðareiðistunnilin
| Viðareiðistunnilin | ||||
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| use | Road tunnel | |||
| length | 1,939 m | |||
| construction | ||||
| building-costs | about 162 million DKK | |||
| start of building | 2014 | |||
| completion | 2016 | |||
| business | ||||
| release | 2nd September 2016 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| Northeast portal | 62 ° 19 ′ 24 ″ N , 6 ° 31 ′ 6 ″ W. | |||
| Southwest portal | 62 ° 19 ′ 1 ″ N , 6 ° 31 ′ 33 ″ W. | |||
Map with all coordinates: Viðareiðistunnilin (Eng .: the Viðareiðitunnel ) is an almost 2 km long road tunnel on Viðoy , the northernmost island of the Faroe Islands . It connects the two island towns Viðareiði and Hvannasund .
Tunnel construction and opening
Construction of the tunnel began in June 2014. Due to good progress in construction, the tunnel was completed early in summer 2016 and opened in early September 2016.
The two-lane tunnel is 1939 meters long and connects the two island towns Viðareiði and Hvannasund. Since the tunnel access is on the Viðareiði side at some distance from the town center in the Middalur corridor , a new connecting road had to be built on the east coast of Viðoy. The tunnel access on the Hvannasund side, however, connects to the existing coastal road.
Due to the tunnel is, among other things, the desire for an alternative option for a rockfall endangered section of the running along the west coast coastal road Viðareiði after Hvannasund.
See also
Web links
- Viðareiðistunnilin , landsverk.fo (tunnel data)
- Viðareiðisfarleið - tunnil og vegur , landsverk.fo (Timeline of tunnel construction - in Faroese)
- Viðareiðistunnilin letur upp , landsverk.fo, 29 Aug 2016 (tunnel opening - in Faroese)
- 1939 metrar av nýggjum tunli lata upp í morgin . Archived from the original on September 4th, 2016. Published on September 1st, 2016 in Dimmalætting (newspaper report on the opening of the tunnel - in Faroese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Viðareiðistunnilin ( Memento from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), landsverk.fo
- ↑ Viðareiðistunnilin - enduliga er spakin settur í on page 9 in: Norðlýsið No. 34, 2014 (in Faroese - groundbreaking for the construction of the Viðareiði tunnel on June 23, 2014)
- ↑ Viðareiðistunnilin: 98 metrar eftir at bora ( Memento from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Norðlýsið, June 29, 2015
- ↑ Viðareiðistunnilin letur upp , landsverk.fo, Aug. 29, 2016 (in Faroese)
- ↑ Viðareiðistunnilin verður liðugur í summar , in.fo, March 18, 2016 (in Faroese)