Lærdal Tunnel
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road tunnel, highway E16, in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway
Key facts
- Location
- Vestland , Norway
- Route
- E16
- Opened
- 27 November 2000
- Operator
- Norwegian Public Roads Administration
- Character
- Road
- Toll
- None
- Vehicles per day
- 2,050 (2019)
- Length
- 24.51 km (15.23 mi)
- Operating speed
- 80 km/h (50 mph)
- Highest elevation
- 265 m (869 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 5 m (16 ft)
- Width
- 9 m (30 ft)
- Grade
- 2.5%
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Norway
- Located in
- Aurland Municipality
- Operator
- Norwegian Roads Administration
- Image
- 00 5848 Lærdalstunnel - Norwegen.jpg
- Length
- 24509
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- date of official opening
- 2000-11-27
- officially opened by
- Harald V of Norway
- Commons category
- Lærdalstunnelen
- carries thoroughfare
- European route E16
- crosses
- Filefjell
- annual average daily traffic
- 2247
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lærdal Tunnel (Norwegian: Lærdalstunnelen) is a 24.51-kilometre-long (15.23 mi) road tunnel connecting Lærdal Municipality and Aurland Municipality in Vestland county, Norway; the southwest end of the tunnel is approximately 117 kilometres (73 mi) northeast of Bergen. It carries two lanes of the European Route E16 highway, and was the final link completing the main highway that now enables car travel between Oslo and Bergen with no ferry connections and no difficult mountain crossings during winter. It is the longest road tunnel in the world, followed by Tianshan Shengli Tunnel in Xinjiang, China and WestConnex in Sydney, Australia.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lærdal Tunnel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.