Posted on 02/25/2019 1:13:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The rugged west coast of Norway, home to thousands, is a challenge to travel along by car. It takes time. A long time. The harsh weather conditions make it an unpredictable route, with roads often closing and ferries often cancelling their departure due to snow, heavy winds or high waves. A continuous E39 highway that is accessible 24/7, with fixed links between islands and the mainland will make the western coast more accessible for people who inhabit the coast, but also for tourists and for the transportation of goods.
Currently, 1,000km of road need to be improved
The Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) has a long-term goal to develop the E39 as an improved and continuous Coastal Highway Route between the cities of Kristiansand in the south and Trondheim in the north by 2050.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is the contractor for this project. The route runs through six counties and the cities of Stavanger, Bergen, Ålesund and Molde. Currently the total travel time is approximately 21 hours and road users have to use seven different ferry connections.
The aim is to create an improved E39 without ferries; reducing the travel time by half, with the route almost 50km shorter. The reduction in travel time will be obtained by replacing ferries with bridges and tunnels, in addition to upgrading a number of road sections on land. Sixty per cent of Norway’s export goods are produced on the west coast, so an efficient and predictable transport system will be a great benefit for the national economy. By connecting cities along the west coast we will also create new patterns of habitation. The new road will shorten the path to reach hospitals, jobs and schools. The E39 continues to Denmark, and hence connects Norway with southern Europe . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at intelligenttransport.com ...
Great until it springs a leak.
Isn't the weather gonna be warm and clear in 12 years?
AOC can use this idea for her train to England!!!! Which is racist since she wants to build it to England and not Europe. And why doesn’t she want to build one to China or Japan?
Too warm! Norway will be under water!
Isn’t the weather gonna be warm and clear in 12 years?
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No no no!
See the global warming alarmists knew that northern Europeans wouldn’t be scared by their propaganda, so one of their more clever Bill Nye types came up with the hypothesis that the warming oceans will interfere with saline convection under neath the northern atlantic which will in turn interfere with the gulfstream/trade winds that bring warm air to them.
DO you remember that movie “Day After Tomorrow”?
Everything to do with climate change is negative. It ALWAYS is. There is never a story about how climate change can be good, let alone stories about how climate change is naturally occurring and there’s nothing anyone can do to change it from happening as it always would have.
The tubes are to be suspended from giant pontoons; I’ve got to wonder how much redundant support they plan to put into the design. Lose too many pontoons, and you’re talking a major catastrophe.
In that context, do they get icebergs, or even serious surface ice along that coast?
Yes they can. Can they convince me to drive through it in a country lousy with moslems famous for truck bombs? No they cannot.
With all the middle east migrants infesting that general area of the world, wouldn’t these tunnels make ideal targets for them to blow up with a car full of explosives?
[ Great until it springs a leak. ]
Akbar leaks would be my main concern
This sounds great . . . . . . until it cracks open with a couple hundred cars and people inside of it.
They need to ask an expert...AOC
Some years ago my family and I took a driving trip up the West coast of Norway, island hoping on ferries. Fantastic trip in sunny summer weather. Just take a good supply of booze with you since some of the islands are dry.
There is not now, and never has been any reason why they would be difficult to build.
It is the prospect of maintaining them that prevents anyone rational from building one.
what could possibly go wrong?
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