The Damsgård Tunnel () is a

road tunnel A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is usually completely enclosed except for the two portals common at each end, though there may be access and ve ...

in the city of

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county,

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. It consists of two tubes, each of which carries two lanes of traffic through the Damsgårdsfjellet mountain between the neighborhoods of Lyngbø and

Gyldenpris Gyldenpris is a neighborhood in Bergen, Norway in the borough of Årstad, Bergen, Årstad. Geography Gyldenpris lies on the border between the boroughs of Årstad, Bergen, Årstad and Laksevåg, with the Solheim (Årstad), Solheim neighborhood ...

and the onwards towards the city centre. The northern end of the tunnel lies adjacent to the entrance to the Løvstakk Tunnel and the

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. The tunnel is one of the major arterial highways leading west from the city centre. The tube that carries eastbound traffic was opened in 1992 and it is long, while the other tube opened the following year and it is slightly shorter at long. The Damsgård Tunnel is part of

Norwegian National Road 555 National Road 555 () is a long national road which runs from the city center of Bergen to Kolltveit in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Route In Bergen, the road has two branches, one two-lane from Nøstet via O.J. Brochs gat ...

which runs from

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to Bergen's city centre. The average daily traffic through the Damsgård Tunnel was 35,127 vehicles in 2007, up from 29,336 in 2000.

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Road tunnels in Bergen 1992 establishments in Norway Norwegian National Road 555 Tunnels completed in 1992 {{Norway-tunnel-stub