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Today, roads with 6,000 to 12,000 vehicles per day are built as two-lane and three-lane highways. Now it will be possible to build a four-lane road on these sections. The four-lane road will have a width of 19.0-21.5 meters and a shoulder width of between 1.5 and 2 meters. It will be possible with a speed limit of 110 km / h.
With the new changes, it will also be possible to build a narrower four-lane highway on highways with 12,000 to 20,000 vehicles a day. The road can have a width of 20.0-23.0 meters and a shoulder width of between 2 and 2.75 meters. Here it will also be possible to have a speed limit of 110 km / h.
– We are interested in listening to professionals. We therefore follow the recommendation of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration to introduce the possibility of building a narrow four-lane road. It provides greater flexibility in Norwegian road development and can increase the socio-economic profitability of various projects. That way we get more for community money, says Transport Minister Knut Arild Hareide (KrF).
Relevant sections include E39 Ålesund – Molde, E134 Saggrenda – Gvammen, E39 Mandal – Ålgård, E18 Dørdal – Tvedestrand, E6 Roterud – Øyer, E6 Ulsberg – Melhus, E6 Kvithammar – Åsen and rv. 4 Oslo – Mjøsbrua.
Against the plans
Trygg Trafikk has previously commented negatively on the plan and has asked Hareide to put it aside.
– We know that speed is and has always been the biggest and most important cause of the most serious traffic accidents. We must control speed on Norwegian roads, director Jan Johansen told VG earlier this year.
The report claims that the Norwegian Public Roads Administration confirms that more highways with a higher speed limit will lead to more accidents.
At the same time, the Royal Norwegian Automobile Club (KNA) stated that it believed accident costs would increase by at least 15% if motorways were narrowed, but that it was nonetheless positive for high speeds (120 km / h ) on Norwegian motorways of the current standard.
