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Links Official Oresund Bridge Home Page See the latest photos from the construction, in the Øresund PhotoArchive. |
PROJECT OVERVIEW In 1991 the Denmark
and Swedish governments agreed to build a bridge to connect the two
countries across Oresund. Later that year the two parliaments
ratified the agreement and scheduled the design to be completed by
1994. The 16 km long Oresund
link between Sweden and Denmark is now complete. At 6 am on August 14,
1999 the final section of the Oresund bridge was placed in position by the
floating crane, "Svanen". Six hours later, Crown Princess
Victoria of Sweden and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark met on the bridge
to mark the fact that Denmark and Sweden are linked once more - 7,000
years after the Ice Age when they were landlocked. The project opened to traffic during the summer of 2000. The Oresund Bridge is the world's longest single bridge
carrying both road and railway traffic. In the design full advantage was
taken of repetition by composing the major part of the bridge of identical
spans. The high bridge with its record-breaking cable-stayed span of 490m
is designed to harmonize both structurally and aesthetically with the
approach bridges. In the construction phase the on-site activities were
completed in just 2 1/2 years due to an extensive use of prefabrication
and erection of large units.
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