The state veiselskapet New Roads AS will be responsible for the construction of 500 km highway the next 20 years.
The company has been commissioned to make the most of the money that is allocated to the various road projects. Therefore they will now consider whether they should go in for a common standard on upcoming highways.
– We’re going to look at what we would call “new ways normalvei.” In this connection we peeks to Sweden to see how they do it there. We see that they are doing things a little differently than us, says Director of Technology and development strategy, Anette Aanesland.
Will consider narrower way
While highways in Norway varies in width depending on how congested the various sections is, operates Sweden only one width. It is 21 meters.
– In Sweden built the smaller roads in stretches with higher traffic, says Aanesland.
The new drives will look at whether today road widths in Norway respectively 20 and 23 meters, can be replaced by one width as in Sweden.
Will investigate the consequences
According Aanesland there is a lot of money to save this.
Director for technology and development strategy in New Roads AS Anette Aanesland says veiselskapet focus on road safety. They do not want to make changes that something will come at the expense of it.
Director of New Roads AS, Finn Aasmund Hobbesland says that there are examples of a common road width of 21 meters can work well. Photo: Sundsdal, Svein / NRK
Before New Roads decide whether they will go into a common road width, the consequences of such choices should be evaluated.
– We do not want to do anything that goes beyond traffic safety. It is very important for us, says Aanesland.
Sweden has also not lighting on all routes with heavy traffic. There are also some new drives will take a closer look at. If there is anything they want to enter in its “normalvei”, is according Aanesland too early to say anything about.
Director of New Roads AS, Find Aasmund Hobbesland, believes there are examples of a common road width 21 meters can work well.
– The highway between Grimstad and Kristiansand has a width of 21 meters. I think everyone feels that it is a good road to drive on, he said.
The new drives have included the planned new E18 between Tvedestrand and Arendal. According Hobbesland be the construction of this road start to fall.
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