In order to building the Haga\u2013Otterh\u00e4llan section of the V\u00e4stl\u00e4nken railway connection beneath central Gothenburg, Veidekke was appointed on behalf of the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket).<\/p>\n
As a cost-plus contract, the estimated value for this project is SKr430m (\u00a331.78m) excluding VAT.<\/p>\n
Stretching almost 500m between Rosenlundsplatsen and the Harbour Canal, the works consists of a double-track tunnel and two service tunnels in rock, whereas in this subproject, V\u00e4stl\u00e4nken is due to pass several underground structures such as the G\u00f6tatunnel, garages, and shelters.<\/p>\n
Including a 6km rail tunnel, that is under the city of Gothenburg, V\u00e4stl\u00e4nken, or the West Link, is an 8km-long double track railway and it is slated to link commuter rail services to existing routes and include three new underground stations at Gothenburg Central Station, Haga and Korsv\u00e4gen.<\/p>\n
The division of project based on a geographical conditions of the route includes five packages, Olskroken, Centralen, Kvarnberget, Haga and Korsv\u00e4gen. In addition, there will be an overall contract for the rail, electronics, signalling system and telecommunications.<\/p>\n
Being adopted in 2014 by government, the West Link Project is included in the national plan for the Swedish Transport System 2014-2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In order to building the Haga\u2013Otterh\u00e4llan section of the V\u00e4stl\u00e4nken railway connection beneath central Gothenburg, Veidekke was appointed on behalf of the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket). As a cost-plus contract, the estimated value for this project is SKr430m (\u00a331.78m) excluding VAT. Stretching almost 500m between Rosenlundsplatsen and the Harbour Canal, the works consists of a double-track tunnel and two service tunnels in rock, whereas in this subproject, V\u00e4stl\u00e4nken is due to pass several underground structures such as the G\u00f6tatunnel, garages, and shelters. Including a 6km rail tunnel, that is under the city of Gothenburg, V\u00e4stl\u00e4nken, or the West Link, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4001],"tags":[4083,284,4084,47,1823],"class_list":["post-17406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contract-projects","tag-gothenburg-rail-contract","tag-sweden","tag-swedish-transport-administration","tag-tunneling","tag-veidekke","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}