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There are many ways to explore the seven mountains of Bergen, a picturesque UNESCO World Heritage City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which runs around the West Coast. However, the latest one could be record-breaking.
The three-kilometer (1.8 miles) bike and pedestrian tunnel has exploded through the bottom of Løvstakken Mountain, which its manufacturer says is the longest dedicated tunnel of its kind.
As we all know, Fyllingsdalstunnelen opened on April 15, holding a sports event for the Family Day, after four years of construction began in February 2019. The cost of large projects funded by the state is close to $29 million, or Kroner of Norwegian.
“We Norwegians are usually modest people,” Camilla Einarsen Heggernes, a spokesperson for railway company Bybanen Utbygging, told CNN.
It takes less than 10 minutes to ride a bike through the tunnel, and if you walk for about 40 minutes. To break the monotony of the windowless tunnel, the entire art installation, along with different colors and lighting, can help the user place in a position on the journey and provide a sense of direction.
At the center point is a “day” device – the sun absolutely does not shine – it shows the time of day, again helping to locate visitors and destroying the otherwise long-term vision. Apart from the slight bending at the entrance and exit, the tunnel is completely straight.
If you want to know how cyclists and pedestrians use the same space, there are two lanes in the tunnel: a 3.5m wide bike lane and a 2.5m wide lane for walkers and runners. “We laid a blue rubber floor throughout the tunnel, similar to a moving track,” explains Einarsen Heggernes. “This makes the use more pleasant than walking on asphalt only. ”
The new tunnel is a byproduct of the second Bybanen tram line in Bergen, which opened in November 2022. The tram line across the mountain requires parallel evacuation tunnels, so the developer decided to make the new tunnel redundant.
Bergen is Norway’s second largest city, with a port city connected to the Norwegian capital Oslo and is linked by the 496-kilometer Bergensbanen Railway Line. This stunning rail journey through Europe’s largest alpine plateau, Hardangervidda, whose snow-wearing vision is the backdrop of the battlefield in the sequel to “Star Wars”, “The Empire Repels.”
While Fyllingsdalstunnelen pushed itself to the world’s longest dedicated circular tunnel, the reason for the warning is the 3.6-km long Snoqualmie Tunnel located in Washington, east of Seattle. This former train tunnel is now a passage for cyclists, runners and walkers and is part of the 250-mile Paruz trail to the Cascade State Park Trail.
Six European cities have achieved success in CNN Travel’s recent review of 10 globally Most bike-friendly cities. Copenhagen has 385 kilometers of bicycle paths, and he introduced the first in 1892. Strasbourg in France is available at 24/7 self-service stations 24/7, and visitors can use it, with about 6,000 bicycles. The Swiss capital Bern is an exciting downhill for riders who feel they need speed. The best thing is that cyclists can raise the proposed population to the top and then ride – no hard struggle.
