Øresund Bridge

The Øresund Bridge is an about sixteen km lengthy street and rail hyperlink between Sweden and Denmark. It includes 3 sections: a bridge, a synthetic island, and a tunnel. The bridge money owed for half of the period of the hyperlink (approximately 8 km) with the 204 m excessive pylons assisting the 490 m lengthy bridge span throughout the Flinte channel. This layout is called a cable-stayed bridge. On the bridge, the railway and toll road run on separate ranges with the railway at the lower deck and car visitors at the top deck.

Most of the bridge structures – the bridge piers and bridge spans – have been constructed on land and ultimately towed out to the bridge alignment through a big floating crane. Only the pylons have been forged in situ. Linking the bridge and tunnel, the man-made island of Peberholm, in which the railway and toll road run The hyperlink parallel to every other, its neighbor to the herbal island of Saltholm in addition to the north. four km lengthy, Peberholm changed into produced from the fabric dredged from the Øresund seabed to deal with the bridge piers and the tunnel.

Peberholm was constructed to allow visitors to skip from the bridge, in which rail and car visitors run on ranges, to the tunnel in which visitors run at the identical level. The four km immersed tunnel changed into constructed through concrete factors forged on land and ultimately towed out and reduced right into a trench dredged withinside the Øresund sea bed.

Construction costs: $6.5 billion

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden