Oresund Bridge
| Øresund Bridge Öresund Bridge |
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| Coordinates | 55°34′31″N 12°49′37″E / 55.57528°N 12.82694°E |
| Carries | Four lanes of European route E20 Double-track Oresund Line |
| Crosses | Øresund strait (the Sound) |
| Locale | Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden |
| Official name | Øresundsbroen, Öresundsbron |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Cable-stayed bridge |
| Total length | 7,845 metres (25,738 ft) |
| Width | 23.5 metres (77.1 ft) |
| Height | 204 metres (669 ft) |
| Longest span | 490 metres (1,608 ft) |
| Clearance below | 57 metres (187 ft) |
| History | |
| Designer | Jorgen Nissen, Klaus Falbe Hansen, Niels Gimsing and Georg Rotne |
| Engineering design by |
Ove Arup & Partners Setec Gimsing & Madsen |
| Constructed by | Hochtief, Skanska, Højgaard & Schultz and Monberg & Thorsen |
| Construction cost | 19.6 billion DKK 2.6 billion Euro |
| Opened | 1 July 2000 |
| Statistics | |
| Daily traffic | ca. 19,000 road vehicles (2014) |
| Toll | DKK 390, SEK 490 or € 54 |
 Marine environment
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The Øresund/Öresund/Oresund Bridge (Danish: Øresundsbroen [ˈøɐsɔnsˌb̥ʁoˀːn̩], Swedish: Öresundsbron [œːrɛ²sɵnːdsˌbruːn], hybrid name: Øresundsbron) is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait between Sweden and Denmark. The bridge runs nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The crossing is completed by the 4 km (2.5-mile) Drogden Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager.
The Øresund Bridge is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe and connects two major metropolitan areas: Copenhagen, the Danish capital city, and the Swedish city of Malmö. It connects the road and rail networks of the Scandinavian Peninsula with those of Central and Western Europe. A data cable also makes the bridge the backbone of internet data transmission between central Europe and Sweden/Finland.
The international European route E20 crosses via road, the Oresund Line via railway. The construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link, connecting Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Peninsula, and the Øresund Bridge have connected Central and Western Europe to Scandinavia by road and rail. The Øresund Bridge was designed by the Danish engineering firm COWI. The justification for the additional expenditure and complexity related to digging a tunnel for part of the way, rather than raising that section of the bridge, was to avoid interfering with air traffic from the nearby Copenhagen Airport, to provide a clear channel for ships in good weather or bad, and to prevent ice floes from blocking the strait. The Øresund Bridge crosses the border between Denmark and Sweden, but in accordance with the Schengen Agreement and the Nordic Passport Union, there are usually no passport inspections. There are random customs checks at the entrance toll booths entering Sweden, but not when entering Denmark. Since January 2016, checks have become significantly more stringent due to the European migrant crisis.
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