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Conservatives are calling on the Labor Party to take central action to secure a new E6 tunnel. But the Labor Party believes that it is the Conservatives who must decide.
For 25 years, the residents of Manglerud, on the eastern edge of Oslo, have been waiting for a tunnel that will bring the heavily traveled E6 underground.
But the Oslo City Council, led by the Lan Marie Berg Environment and Transport Agency (ODM), no longer wants to prioritize the tunnel, and that causes conservatives to react strongly.
– Labor City Council is failing Østkanten, says MP Stefan Heggelund (H) and City Council politician Nicolai Øyen Langfeldt (H).
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WANTS A PATH: City council politician Nicolai Øyen Langfeldt in Oslo believes the Labor Party must go through the center for the Manglerud tunnel to be built on the E6.
Photo: Magnus Blaker (Nettavisen)
– Work can be governed by the MDGs
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has been working for several years on a plan to put traffic underground, with a four-kilometer-long tunnel in the so-called E6 east project. Now the whole project is on shaky ground, after the red-green city council said they will stop the whole project, when they were re-elected last year.
– In the Oslo 3 package, we have an agreement that we will build a tunnel over Manglerud. That agreement has been in existence for many years. Nothing has changed except the position of the Labor Party in Oslo, Langfeldt declared, and proposed to the Labor Party centrally:
– So when the Oslo Labor Party doesn’t want to move the contaminated traffic underground, the hope is that the Labor Party in the Storting can do the job for them.
UNDER GROUND: This is how the new E6 east of Oslo is planned, but a four-kilometer-long tunnel underground to relieve the residents of the area.
This happened earlier this year, when a majority in the Labor Party parliamentary group voted in favor of another controversial road project in the capital, E18 west of Oslo. A project that city council leader Raymond Johansen (Labor Party) and city council are also strongly opposed to.
– The Oslo Labor Party lets itself be controlled by the MDGs in the Oslo Package 3 negotiations. First they had to stretch their legs under the E18 in the Western Corridor, now it is the Manglerud tunnel. We solved E18 with the Labor Party in the Storting, and we hope to meet again, conservative politicians say.
Oslo Package 3 finances all major road and public transport projects in Oslo and Viken, with the help of tolls and government grants. However, the parties have not been able to agree on a new agreement due to the E18 dispute, so the old agreement applies so far.
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– In time for an environmental tunnel
Langfeldt believes that now it is the turn of the eastern edge to obtain what he characterizes as an environmental tunnel, after the Labor Party in the Storting, according to him, “saved the E18 through Bærum”.
“Both projects try to move polluted car traffic from a neighborhood to the subway, so that students can have a better learning environment, a safer school road, and better air to breathe,” he says, noting:
– The Labor Party in the Storting says yes to Oslo West, and now is the time for Oslo East to also have its environmental tunnel.
At the same time, he boasts of dissent from the Conservatives in the Storting.
– I experience that the Labor Party at the national level has a pragmatic approach to these issues, and it is a national path. It’s a stretch that connects Norway to the mainland, says Langfeldt.
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– Tunnels are being built in Oslo
Heggelund notes that the increase in traffic on the highway has also been enormous in recent years.
– In the 1980s, only 20,000 cars drove on E6 beyond Oslo East, and today there are 75,000 cars and around 10-12,000 trucks. It creates noise, unsafe school roads, and unsafe urban air. Now all of Manglerud needs a new tunnel at E6, he says, adding:
– A new Manglerud tunnel will carry the huge underground traffic and will ensure a whole new life in the area. Green lungs, new urban development, and safe school environments will be the new everyday life. Manglerud and all of Oslo East deserve it.
GREEN LUNGS: – Green lungs, new urban development and safe school environments will be the new everyday life. Manglerud and all of Oslo East deserve it, says Storting representative Stefan Heggelund (H) about a new tunnel on the E6 in Oslo East.
Photo: Cecilie Victoria Jensen (right)
Langfeldt points out that Oslo would not have been as it is today, if it weren’t for pollution from car traffic that would have moved underground.
– It wouldn’t have been so good to live in Vålerenga if it weren’t for the Vålerenga tunnel, Ekeberg for the Ekeberg tunnel. The center of Oslo would not have been the same if the traffic thundered over the Rådhusplassen metro and through the Opera Tunnel had not moved. The tunnels build and develop more Oslo, we must continue with that, he says.
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Labor: – Conservatives must decide
But Storting representative Sverre Myrli (Labor Party) from Akershus, who convinced the Labor Party to go against the Oslo City Council and won a new E18, believes that it is the Conservatives who must first decide whether the road should take priority.
– From what I can see, the Manglerud tunnel is not included in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s proposal for the National Transport Plan (NTP) 2022-2033. It is the government that will present the NTP in the spring, and the Conservatives must first decide whether they want to pave the way there, Myrli tells Nettavisen.
It emphasizes that local authorities must also be behind the project.
– So I say what I always say when talking about transportation projects. Local authorities and the state must sit down and agree. As a possible Manglerud tunnel will be financed in part by tolls, the legislation requires local authorities to be behind the project, Myrli says, adding:
– But the first thing to clarify is whether the government and the conservatives will invest in the NTP project. If not, this discussion is not really that interesting.
Akershus Ap leader Sverre Myrli has received campaign support from LO. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB scanpix
Photo: (NTB scanpix)
– But as far as E18 is concerned, he did not think it was important that the local authorities in Oslo were behind the project. Why do you see this project differently?
– E18 has always been within Oslo Package 3 and NTP. Also, it is located all the way in Bærum and Viken, not Oslo, and both Bærum and Akershus / Viken have always been in favor of E18 development. A Manglerud tunnel will be located entirely in Oslo, and therefore the state and municipality of Oslo must agree, Myrli replies, that is, with a different tone than the one mentioned in the E18 dispute:
– This is one of the country’s highways, if not the busiest, and it is the state and the Storting who decide. We wanted an agreement with Oslo and Viken, it had been the best, but they had 13 negotiation meetings without reaching an agreement, and all the Oslo Package 3 negotiations were prevented by not agreeing on E18, Myrli told The newspaper online in June.
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Price: 16 billion
The E6 Oslo East project includes a section of approximately 15 kilometers of the current E6 between Klemetsrud and Trosterud in Oslo. After the city of Oslo determined the planning program for the road section in 2016, an expanded planning area was subsequently announced to study new alternative routes for the E6 in a tunnel under Manglerud, between Abildsø and the Ulven area. / Alna in Oslo.
The price of the project is estimated at NOK 16 billion. What remains for the project is a regulation of the tunnel and obtaining financing. In the 2016 Oslo Package 3 agreement, this is a priority project. The goal is to reduce the environmental impact for residential areas along E6 and Ring 3 by putting traffic underground.
The start of construction is planned in the period from 2024 to 2028.
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