{"id":2348,"date":"2020-10-31T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2020-10-31T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T12:53:04","slug":"two-new-projects-reached-the-finish-line-in-west-fjords-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2348","title":{"rendered":"Two New Projects Reached the Finish line in West Fjords, Iceland."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the excavation was finally finished, the new ring road, joining the Arnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to D\u00fdrafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur fjords, was inaugurated over the phone on October 25th by Sigur\u00f0ur Ingi J\u00f3hannsson, the Minister of Transport and Local Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Work on the road tunnel (stretching for 5.6km) in Iceland began in 2017 to cut down the travel length from \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to Reykjav\u00edk by 27km. The new ring road passes through the mountains in some sections, about 5,600 m in total.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2349 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the meantime, the tunnel opening coincided with the formal inauguration of <strong><em>Ring Road 2<\/em><\/strong> (950km in length), running through 8 municipal areas in west regions of Iceland, a journey of at least 14hours through districts including West Fjords and the Dalabygg\u00f0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cA new attraction is being created for the West Fjords and Iceland,\u201d<\/em> states D\u00edana J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir, who works for Visit Westfjords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the excavation was finally finished, the new ring road, joining the Arnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to D\u00fdrafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur fjords, was inaugurated over the phone on October 25th by Sigur\u00f0ur Ingi J\u00f3hannsson, the Minister of Transport and Local Government. Work on the road tunnel (stretching for 5.6km) in Iceland began in 2017 to cut down the travel length from \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to Reykjav\u00edk by 27km. The new ring road passes through the mountains in some sections, about 5,600 m in total. In the meantime, the tunnel opening coincided with the formal inauguration of Ring Road 2 (950km in length), running through 8 municipal areas in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}