New Year’s Eve were free to run through the 2840 meter long tunnel between Tusse Fræna and Molde.
Kjell Rune Aukan from Averøy was the last one to pay the boom He instead got handed a bouquet of CEO Ove Hauge Tusten Tunnel Company AS.
In all the 24 years there has been a manual ticketing in tollbooth. Anne-Berit Cool (61), Torild Staurset (56) and Aslaug Melsæter’ve served tollbooth from the start and has been in all those 24 years.
In 24 years have motorists paid toll in this tunnel, which was built by the Act as a private toll company, funded by industry and the neighboring municipalities.
The event was marked at 12 Daytime New Years Eve with a hundred attendants, fireworks, mulled wine and cookies.
Since the road through the mountains Tusten opened to traffic in 1990, approximately 30 million cars and other vehicles passed through the tunnel.
– A highlight and an anniversary when it will now be free, says Per Övermo who has led the Board of Tusten tunnel company AS recent years.
Traffic has increased year by year. The first full year of operation, which was in 1991, passed 940,000 cars through the tunnel (2500 ADT). In 2013 was AADT reached 4700 when 1.715 million vehicles passed through the tunnel.
– We anticipate that traffic will increase further when it will now be free to pass said Hege Gagnat representing county during New Year’s Eve event .
Both Mayor Torgeir Dahl (H) in Molde and Mayor Nils Johan Gjendem Fræna emphasizes that Tusse tunnel has been extremely important for businesses and people in the two municipalities and municipalities that Eide and Averøy.
In Møre og Romsdal are three toll lines discontinued in 2014. In addition to Tusse tunnel there Astad-Knutset E39 and county 653 Eiksund connection.
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