The tunnel was the first to be closed when Road Administration began its wide tunnel remediation project last summer. Across the country will 200 tunnels be upgraded to EU standards and modernized, in that old equipment is replaced and new security built in.
Sunday at 18 released the first cars through in both races, after Transport Minister Ketil Solvik -Olsen (FRP) has spoken.
in Oslo’s ten tunnels on the worklist applicable for 2015 to 2019.
When working on Smestad would start on June 2 last year, the waiting queue and chaos in Ring 3, because the traffic had to be directed to roads with much less capacity. But trafikkaoset stalled. Many of those who normally would have taken the car in the morning, chose rather to ride a bike or take public transit.
Planned construction in Smestad tunnel was one year. Now it appears that the Road Administration has been able to finish a bit early. The reopening marked by a nearly two-hour session at Smestad Sunday afternoon.
– The vast majority has gone well. Of course it’s always little surprises in big projects, but we can now open the tunnel a week before the plan says something that it has gone well, says Development Manager for Smestad tunnel, Linn Kulberg Knutsen in NPRA, told NRK.
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