Conference turris::scandia

112.0. "Span between Fyn & Zealand approved" by TLE::SAVAGE (Neil, @Spit Brook) Sat Jun 14 1986 12:25

Associated Press Fri 13-JUN-1986 14:49                     BRF--Danish Bridge

                  Politicians Agree on Long-Disputed Bridge
    
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Danish politicians announced agreement
    Friday on a long-disputed plan for the first fixed link between the
    European continent and Zealand, Denmark's biggest island and the site
    of Copenhagen, the capital. 
    
    The Conservative-led minority government and the Social Democrats, who
    lead the opposition, agreed on a combined 12-mile tunnel and bridge
    link for trains. If approved by Parliament, now in summer recess, the
    link would carry traffic between Zealand and Fyn island. Fyn is already
    linked by bridges to Denmark's Jutland peninsula, the only part of
    Scandinavia geographically attached to the rest of Western Europe. The
    project would cost about $1.5 billion. 
    
    A rail bridge would be built between Fyn and Sprogoe island, about
    halfway across the waters of Denmark's Great Belt. Trains would go the
    rest of the way to Zealand though a tunnel.