Posted on 06/25/2024 10:53:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
An ambitious underwater road and rail tunnel is currently under construction in Europe that will link Germany and Denmark. Named the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, it will cross an 18-km (roughly 11.2-mile) stretch of the Baltic Sea.
The Fehmarnbelt tunnel (aka Fehmarn Belt fixed link) is being created by Femern A/S, Rambøll, Arup and TEC, and is described by the team as the world's longest immersed tunnel (i.e. a tunnel built elsewhere and then sunk into place) and the world's deepest immersed tunnel with road and rail traffic. The immersed part is important as there are longer undersea tunnels, such as the Channel Tunnel, for example, but it's still an extraordinary undertaking.
Once complete, it will connect Rødbyhavn in Denmark with Fehmarn in Germany, and will be the shortest route between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. Travelers will either take a seven-minute train journey or a 10-minute car drive to cross the Fehmarn Belt, replacing a trip that would otherwise have taken 45 minutes by ferry.
To put its size into perspective, the construction of the tunnel will require 360,000 tonnes (396,832 short tons) of rebar, which is the equivalent of almost 50 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower's metal structure. The build site at the Danish side is the size of 373 soccer pitches. Up to 70 vessels were involved in the dredging of the tunnel trench, which is also 18 km (11.2 miles). In total, around 12 million cubic meters (almost 424 million cubic ft) of soil has been dredged from the seabed.
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Hope it lasts longer than a biden pier.
Or the Nordstream pipeline.
I see an action movie in the future.
Now we know where those FIU female ‘engineers’ disappeared to...good luck!
> Or the Nordstream pipeline.
As long as the Danes or Swedes don’t cross the US.
Aren’t there earthquakes over there?
The Trans-Bay Tube in SF has the same challenge.
Now illegal migrants can be spread across Scandanavia efficiently and quietly - no more of those ugly scenes of Africans crammed on to tiny dinghies.
I know governments like to make a big splash with splashy infrastructure projects but I really have to wonder if the 35 minute difference in a car’s journey (from 45 minutes to ten minutes) is actually worth the expense of the tunnel (about $10 billion).
Are you suggesting there’s something rotten in Denmark?................
Why. They have a border with Denmark. Totally unnecessary.
This goes to an island................
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
von der Etsch bis an den Belt
Interesting that the tunnel is being built in a trench underneath the water rather than in a bored passageway.
Maybe a lot of underwater tunnels are done that way.
Is Denmark sure it wants to do this???
It’s already possible to get from Germany to Denmark by road or railroad (I have traveled by train from Germany to Denmark). But it does look like it would save a lot of time for drivers wanting to get to Copenhagen or to southern Sweden (it appears there is a ferry but the tunnel will be faster).
No thank you
“drivers wanting to get to Copenhagen”
Are the prostitutes on display in the windows really that good in Copenhagen?
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