Bridge over the Great Belt (Danish: Storebælt) - bridge in Denmark, Buy a ticket for the Storebælt Bridge (the Great Belt Bridge) connecting the Danish cities of Korsør and Nyborg.
The Storebælt Bridge - INFORMATION
The 18-kilometre-long link across the Great Belt Strait (Storebælt), which consists of three bridges and a tunnel, connects the city of Nyborg, located on the Eastern shore of the island of Funen, with the town of Korsør, located on the island of Zealand, about 100 kilometres southwest of Copenhagen.
The construction of the Storebælt crossing took 10 years and was carried out between 1988 and 1998. The road link was opened in 1998, the railway link - in 1997.
The total cost of building the Storebælt link was 21.4 billion Danish Kroner (at 1988 prices) and was spent more or less equally on the road and railway sections of the crossing.
The East Bridge that carries a road over the Great Belt, at 6,970 metres in length, is the longest suspension bridge in Europe and the third longest suspension bridge in the world. It replaced the ferry crossing, which used to be the main way to travel between the islands, thus reducing the time of travel by car from 90 minutes to just 10-15 minutes.
The railway tunnel, which runs along the East Bridge and connects Zealand with the island of Sprogø, located in the middle of the Storebælt crossing, is 8,024 metres long and consists of two separate tunnel tubes with one track in each. At its deepest point, the tunnel is 75 metres below sea level.
The West Bridge, which connects the islands of Funen and Sprogø, actually consists of a pair of parallel bridges - a road bridge and a railway bridge - and is 6,611 metres long.
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