{"id":11881,"date":"2023-06-20T04:31:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2023-06-20T04:31:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T04:31:53","slug":"bergen-tram-line-to-asane-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=11881","title":{"rendered":"Bergen Tram Line to \u00c5sane Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bergen city council has confirmed programs for constructing a 12\u00b77 km extension of the Bybanen light rail network from Kaigaten in the city center north to V\u00e5gsbotn in \u00c5sane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subsequent to the council decision on May 31, the project promoter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bybanen-utbygging.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bybanen Utbygging<\/a>, signed an NKr1\u00b71bn contract for the CORAV consortium of COWI Norge, Ramboll and Asplan Viak to take up design work for the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The scheduled way to \u00c5sane composes the fifth phase of the Bybanen construction program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project&#8217;s cost is said to be NKr21bn, comprising 14 stops and 5\u00b77 km of tunnel, plus a 13 km cycle route and a 3 km extension of the Fl\u00f8yfjells road tunnel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ridership is envisioned to be 60 000 passengers\/day in 2040, with a travel time of almost 25 min from the city center to V\u00e5gsbotn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The construction could begin in 2024 for completion in 2032 at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergen city council has confirmed programs for constructing a 12\u00b77 km extension of the Bybanen light rail network from Kaigaten in the city center north to V\u00e5gsbotn in \u00c5sane. Subsequent to the council decision on May 31, the project promoter, Bybanen Utbygging, signed an NKr1\u00b71bn contract for the CORAV consortium of COWI Norge, Ramboll and Asplan Viak to take up design work for the line. The scheduled way to \u00c5sane composes the fifth phase of the Bybanen construction program. The project&#8217;s cost is said to be NKr21bn, comprising 14 stops and 5\u00b77 km of tunnel, plus a 13 km cycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}