Denmark's 'Disappearing Road' underwater highway

When thinking of the man made wonders of the world, it's easy to fixate on. The skyscrapers dominating city skylines, or architectural masterpieces built centuries ago. structures like the Freedom Tower, New York City or the Great Wall of China,

Denmark's  'Disappearing Road' underwater highway

residents were unaware of just how spectacular their new path of travel was going to be. But when construction was finished, people across the planet had to pick their jaws up off the floor. Only a bird's eye view could truly show how spectacular and wonders The bridge was.

In the 1930s. Both the Swedish and Danish government proposed the impossible they would connect the two Nordic countries in a way that finally permitted easy travel between them.

Well, a bridge, of course. First they needed to figure out where to place it. Officials determine that it made the most sense to connect the cities of Malmo, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark, pictured respectively. Both regions were some of the largest in their countries. But it wouldn't be easy. There were so many factors. complicating their efforts between the two cities late five miles of rough seas were ice floes, could get caught on any bridge and block the heavily traffic trade route. Plus the water was very deep. Even worse, despite a clear need for the project outside vectors deterred any meaningful progress in addressing the gap between the countries World War Two and evidently forced both governments to put their grand plan on hold years later in the 1950s and 60s, discussions about a joint project picked up again but died when the two countries couldn't decide where exactly the link themselves in the chosen cities. Others are good projects like the Great Belt fix link picture here should take priority.

Finally, in 1991, the two governments agreed on a bridge between Malmo and Copenhagen, and a Danish engineering and consulting group known as co wi. started developing a bridge. No one could have guessed how spectacular The end result would be. With each country. Owning a 50% take construction lasted about five years, there were plenty of setbacks along the way like the discovery of 16 active bombs on the sea floor. But eventually engineers finished what they now call the Auris on bridge. The bridge starts in Malmo and connects to pylons raised with steel cables. Parts of the bridge were built on dry land and then brought to location by a barge and crane. This thing is way more complicated than it looks beneath the four lanes of road span train tracks across the second lower level of the bridge. The train travels up to 120 miles per hour, making it a perfect commuting option and a great way to facilitate travel between Denmark and Sweden. Amazingly, this isn't the craziest part of it from Melbourne.

The bridge connects to hammer home. A man made Island a few miles off the coast of Copenhagen. The island made up of dirt and unused project materials. Services, home to 454 species of plants and 12 kinds of birds. But wait a second. If this bridge was designed to connect Sweden and Denmark, you can hardly say Mission accomplished. If the construction ended in an uninhabited island miles off Copenhagen's coast. Right? But that's why this bridge is truly spectacular. From pepper home. The road literally disappears into the sea. From an aerial view. You can see just how bizarre that looks. for one second, there's a bridge and the next there isn't where to go, the road actually descends into Dragan tunnel for over two and a half mile the tunnel permits undersea travel from home to the man made. I'll have Castro a suburb of Copenhagen engineers constructed the tunnel on land in 20 segments 55 tons each and nestled them into the seabed trench.

Five individual tumors comprise the dragon interior to for traffic to for trains and one for emergencies. The tunnel allows ice floes to move unimpeded through the sea, and perhaps more importantly, allows ship captains to steer through the straight as well. Best of all, the tunnel serves as a reef acting as a home to marine life. For a long time, the bridge promoted free travel between the two nations at the entrance toll booths in Sweden officers occasionally performed random customs checks, but for the most part, citizens of either nation could travel unimpeded to the other due to the migrant crisis in Europe. However, both nations committed to stronger security measures and started regularly checking passengers in both directions. Still, the bridges so far and undeniable beneficial impacts for both countries. At first, travel between the two nations didn't increase at the anticipated rate, but authorities chalked that up to high oil prices, however, eventually, more Danish people bought homes in Malmo, a much more affordable place to live for.

They are they committed daily but the economic advantages were only one factor in why governments committed to the origin bridge another reason they wanted to nurture a united feeling between the nation's most importantly of all was that the Morrison bridge showed that small European nations could collaborate and achieve something spectacular. And with the way this man made wonder turned out there's no doubt Sweden and Denmark succeeded there. Will the origin bridge make it into future conversations about man made wonders of the world. It shows that European countries really are forward thinking when it comes to traveling check out these other videos from let me know if you haven't made the move to so.

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