I just had to tally up a few important things from our visit to Norway.. of the 900 road tunnels in Norway we clocked out about 80 of them in our trip, from dinky little things carved in the side of a cliff to the longest road tunnel in the world, at 24.5 kms the Lærdalstunnelen is pretty impressive its even got disco rooms for stopping bays 😉
Some tunnels I drove in had no lights, single lane and full of fog, luckily it was late and i did not pass anyone in that tunnel 🙂 trying to reverse when driving on the opposite side is kinda challenging.
Now, australia has a few tunnels, but these (excluding the SNowy Mountains scheme) are nothing but childs play compared to what they do over here.. these guys do tunnels for the fun of it i reckon… rather than blast some rock away like we have for the Freeway outta north sydney they would have just tunneled it 🙂 apparently they have quite the pride in their tunnel efforts! so me reckons that Westconnex mob should be ditched and we get hold of one of these Norwegian companies. If a country with 5 million people (thats the same as sydney) can generate 900 hundred road tunnels then imagine what they could do in sydney 🙂
Anyway heres a disco tunnel for ya, about 19kms into the worlds longest road tunnel.
4 shot panorama using the super wide 14mm Samyang
that's wicked cool!
+Gerard Blacklock Seriously cool 🙂
Fantastic shot 😍
Wowee a 24-km tunnel?! I had no idea. Very very very cool shot!
As a claustrophobic for whom even relatively short tunnels are a cause of rapid breathing and stress, this tunnel is the stuff of nightmares! You have to be very good at enclosed spaces to be a Norwegian!
it looks eerie!
Here's a list of about 1,200 existing road tunnels in Norway. 🙂
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_over_veitunneler_i_Norge
Also, a fun fact; Norwegian companies and workers were involved in blasting tunnels in the Snowy Mountains in the 1950s, as well as the hydroelectric power plant scheme there.
Thanks +PJ Evans and +Chris Sutton
It is pretty mad when you driving through this tunnel and your like 'is it every gonna end' then you come across one of these breakdown areas – makes you want to crank up the bee gees and do some disco dancing 🙂
Thankyou +sophie DIDIER and +Liz C , yup : ) The girls were not as impressed as me! actually they fell asleep in there 🙂
+Carolyn Fahm
yeah you have to get used to it pretty quick- driving in them is pretty intense too since in the smaller tunnels the walls and the cars coming the other direction are very close 🙂
+Kate Arnold
🙂
+Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
well that makes sense why the snowny mountain scheme worked out so well 🙂 we should get them back for more tunnel goodness 🙂