Dýrafjarðargöng (, regionally also ) is a
tunnel in
Iceland connecting
Arnarfjörður
Arnarfjörður () is a large fjord in the Westfjords region of Iceland. "Arnar" is the genitive case of "Örn" , the name of the first settler of the fjord.
Description
The fjord is 30 km long, five to ten km wide, and is oriented NW/SE. I ...
and Dýrafjörður.
The tunnel, that opened on 25 October 2020, is 5.6 km long and shortened the route of Vestfjarðavegur by over 27 km. in the
Westfjords
The Westfjords or West Fjords ( is, Vestfirðir , ISO 3166-2:IS: IS-4) is a large peninsula in northwestern Iceland and an administrative district, the least populous administrative district. It lies on the Denmark Strait, facing the east coast ...
and is important in linking north and south parts of the Westfjords. It relieves the mountain pass that is unpaved and closed most of the year.
Its construction began in 2017 and the estimated cost was ISK 9.2 billion (2016 prices). The main contractors of the tunnel were Icelandic company Suðurverk and Czech company
Metrostav
Metrostav a.s. is a Czech based universal construction company. It is the largest construction company in the Czech Republic and second largest in Central and South-Eastern Europe.
History
Formed in 1990 from a state company of the same name aft ...
.
References
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Road tunnels in Iceland