摘要: |
The Danish government is again considering the feasability of a Kattegat link to connect the country's main Jutland peninsula with the Island of Zealand. Such a combined road and rail bridge would cross the 35km Kattegat Strait between the Jutland city of Aarhus, with a population of around 540,000 - Denmark's second largest city after the capital Copenhagen - and Kalundborg, a small city of 17,000 on the western shore of Zealand. The economic driver for such a link is that it would create a direct route between Copenhagen on Zealand's eastern coast to Aarhus, running westerly across Zealand to Kalundborg. From there it would be a bridge what would be constructed via Samso, a small island in the Kattegat Sea. In effect, there would be two sections of the link: - Kalundborg to Samso; and Samso to Aarhus. According to a recent report in the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Licitationen the estimated cost of the project is around €14.68 billion (US$16.24 billion). |