The Øresund Metro is a proposed metro link between the cities of

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, and

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

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. It would complement the current Øresund heavy rail line.

Background

In September 2011, the local governments in Copenhagen and the neighbouring

in Sweden announced that they were seeking European Union funding to study a potential metro line under the

Øresund Øresund or Öresund (, ; da, Øresund ; sv, Öresund ), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden). The strait has a length of ; its width v ...

to the neighbourhood of

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, providing faster trips and additional capacity beyond that of the existing

Øresund Bridge The Öresund or Øresund Bridge ( da, Øresundsbroen ; sv, Öresundsbron ; hybrid name: ) is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It is the longest in Europe with both roadway and rai ...

. The study, for which the EU granted funding in the following December, will consider both a simple shuttle between the two stations and a continuous line integrated with the local transport networks on each side, and they anticipate a travel time of app. 20 minutes between the two city centers. Work on the study was completed in April 2021. In May 2018 the Oresundsmetro Executive was announced, formed of representatives from the two cities, industry and researchers, to explore the proposal to link Copenhagen and Malmö via a driverless metro system, with travel time of around 20 minutes compared to 35 minutes by train. Capacity constraints are expected on the Oresund Line rail services once the

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is completed, and the €4 billion metro proposal would ease this bottleneck.

Proposal

The line is planned to have capacity for 36 trains per hour in each direction, a maximum speed of and be connected to the existing

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system.

References

External links

Official website: oresundsmetro.com/en
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Background

Proposal

See also

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