Last Call- The Original Bridge to Nowhere Edition
Seemingly extending out to but a small flat island in the middle of a channel, the Øresund Bridge, which connects Denmark and Sweden, actually dives under water letting ships pass above both traffic and trains. The current toll for a car to take this sphincter-tightening crossing is 40 €.
Image source: [triptourism.com]
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That is brilliant. It's a slightly absurd solution, but an impressive one.
Ted Stevens is alive and serving in the Danish parliament.
…or perhaps Ted Kennedy.
We have one of those here in the good 'ol US of A.
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I came here to say this. Thanks for beating me to it!
You can travel on the bridge and through the tunnel in high resolution using Google Street View. Awesome.
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I just remembered this from the Top Gear GT-R challenge
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I remember going through that as a kid, thought it was so damn cool. (It is still so damn cool).
jup when i picked up my c5z06 in april i took a 3hr detour on my way home to jersey just to take the cheesecake-bay-bridge-tunnel (don't judge me i have given up on spelling that name correctly). got lucky when i punched the z06 in the tunnel and a cop rolled by 10 sec later…
fun drive though!
The last time I took a flight from Copenhagen to Helsinki I noticed that thing out of the plane window. I kept trying to figure out where the hell all of those cars were going because there was no visible structures or parking lots on that island.
The last time I took a flight from Copenhagen to Helsinki
I have now added being able to utter that phrase to my bucket list. Thank you!
Hey. you gotta switch planes somewhere. Finnair is the only one that goes straight to Helsinki from the US, and I won't pay their prices.
The island, by the way, is artificial. It's called Peberholm (Pepper Island), because there's a natural island in that strait called Saltholm (Salt Island).
You have to put all the spoil from the tunnelling somewhere. Might as well make an island out of it.