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New 175-metre bicycle bridge arrives in Copenhagen

The ‘Little Langebro’ bicycle bridge arrived for installation in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

New 175-metre bicycle bridge arrives in Copenhagen
Photo: Kristoffer Gravgaard/Ritzau Scanpix

The bridge will complement the main Langebro bridge from 1954, one of the city’s most famous harbour crossings and immortalised by singer Kim Larsen.

Little Langebro will be place north of its larger sister bridge, connecting Vester Voldgade with Langebrogade on each side of the harbour.

The main section of the new bridge was delivered on Wednesday on a barge from Dutch city Rotterdam, TV2 reports. 

Up to 10,000 cyclists and pedestrians daily are expected to use Little Langebro. The larger Langebro currently sees 40,000 motorists, cyclists and pedestrians cross each day.

“The (new) bridge will give a better alternative to the many cyclists in Copenhagen who cycle across Langebro every day,” Peter Fangel Poulsen, project manager with Realdania By & Byg, the company behind the bridge, told TV2.

“We expect it to be well-used,” Poulsen added.

Another dedicated bridge for cyclists and pedestrians, Inderhavnsbroen, connecting Christianshavn with the popular Nyhavn area at the northern end of the harbour, was opened in 2016.

In 2014, the Cykelslangen (Bicycle Snake), a winding 230-metre bicycle bridge connecting Islands Brygge with Vesterbro via the existing Byggebro bridge, opened to the south of Langebro.

The new cycle bridge is expected to be completed this autumn. It consists of four parts, each weighing 600 tonnes, according to TV2’s report.

It will allow harbour traffic to pass by turning outwards in the middle to allow taller boats to sail through, a complex design which has added to the challenge of its construction.

Originally scheduled to be opened in 2018, the project was delayed after a crane collapsed, damaging parts of the bridge.

Realdania, a private association which supports architecture and planning, is building the bridge as a gift to the city, TV2 writes.

READ ALSO: Denmark makes bridge one metre too short

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TRANSPORT

Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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