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Rogfast
Rogaland Fixed Link or simply the Rogfast, is a project to construct a sub-sea road tunnel in Rogaland County, Norway, running between the municipalities of Randaberg (near the city of Stavanger) and Bokn, with a spur connecting to the island municipality of Kvitsøy. Once operational, the Boknafjord tunnel will become both the longest underwater road tunnel in the world, with a length of 27 kilometres (17 mi) and the deepest tunnel overall, with a maximum depth of 392 metres (1,286 ft) below sea level.
This will be a part of the main European route E39 highway along the west coast of Norway and it will link the cities of Kristiansand – Stavanger – Haugesund – Bergen. It is currently slated for a 2033 opening.
The tunnel is planned as a 27-kilometre-long (17 mi) roadway which will run below the Boknafjord and Kvitsøyfjord. A 4.1-kilometre (2+9⁄16 mi) spur connection tunnel, called the Kvitsøy tunnel, going to the island municipality of Kvitsøy is included in the project.
The project was approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) in May 2017, and it was planned to be finished in 2025–26. At that time, the project was projected to cost NOK16.8 billion (about €1.73 billion), with financing set at NOK11 billion from a loan to be paid by tolls, and 6 billion directly from the government.
Construction began in January 2018, with a ceremony for the initial rock blasting for one future entrance to the tunnel.
In October 2019, due to cost overruns predicted in budgetary updates, the project was halted, with all plans for issuing of contracts (the project was being contracted out in stages) cancelled. In December 2019, the government requested a full review and revised budget update.
The first public awareness of higher costs had occurred in July 2019, when the Norwegian Public Roads Administration announced that it had received only two bids on the contract for the spur connection tunnel to Kvitsøy, the lowest of which was NOK1 billion higher than the amount approved by the Storting in 2017. In September 2019, the Kvitsøy bidding process was closed without granting a contract. An update in November 2019 suggested that the earliest possible completion of the project would be in 2029.
By April 2020, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration's revised update estimated that the cost of the total project (including the Kvitsøy spur) had increased to NOK25 billion, an increase of NOK6.4 billion, but stated it believed there were savings of up to NOK4 billion to be found before it would submit a revised funding request to the government.
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Rogfast
Rogaland Fixed Link or simply the Rogfast, is a project to construct a sub-sea road tunnel in Rogaland County, Norway, running between the municipalities of Randaberg (near the city of Stavanger) and Bokn, with a spur connecting to the island municipality of Kvitsøy. Once operational, the Boknafjord tunnel will become both the longest underwater road tunnel in the world, with a length of 27 kilometres (17 mi) and the deepest tunnel overall, with a maximum depth of 392 metres (1,286 ft) below sea level.
This will be a part of the main European route E39 highway along the west coast of Norway and it will link the cities of Kristiansand – Stavanger – Haugesund – Bergen. It is currently slated for a 2033 opening.
The tunnel is planned as a 27-kilometre-long (17 mi) roadway which will run below the Boknafjord and Kvitsøyfjord. A 4.1-kilometre (2+9⁄16 mi) spur connection tunnel, called the Kvitsøy tunnel, going to the island municipality of Kvitsøy is included in the project.
The project was approved by the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) in May 2017, and it was planned to be finished in 2025–26. At that time, the project was projected to cost NOK16.8 billion (about €1.73 billion), with financing set at NOK11 billion from a loan to be paid by tolls, and 6 billion directly from the government.
Construction began in January 2018, with a ceremony for the initial rock blasting for one future entrance to the tunnel.
In October 2019, due to cost overruns predicted in budgetary updates, the project was halted, with all plans for issuing of contracts (the project was being contracted out in stages) cancelled. In December 2019, the government requested a full review and revised budget update.
The first public awareness of higher costs had occurred in July 2019, when the Norwegian Public Roads Administration announced that it had received only two bids on the contract for the spur connection tunnel to Kvitsøy, the lowest of which was NOK1 billion higher than the amount approved by the Storting in 2017. In September 2019, the Kvitsøy bidding process was closed without granting a contract. An update in November 2019 suggested that the earliest possible completion of the project would be in 2029.
By April 2020, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration's revised update estimated that the cost of the total project (including the Kvitsøy spur) had increased to NOK25 billion, an increase of NOK6.4 billion, but stated it believed there were savings of up to NOK4 billion to be found before it would submit a revised funding request to the government.