Oresund Bridge

The Oresund or Oresund Bridge is a mixed railway and highway bridge throughout the oresund strait between Sweden and Denmark. The bridge runs almost eight kilometres from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The crossing is completed by means of the 4-kilometre Drogden Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager. The concept of a bridge over the Oresund was first officially proposed in 1936 through a consortium of engineering companies who proposed a country wide highway network for Denmark.

The idea become dropped for the duration of World War II, however picked up again thereafter and studied in big element in diverse Danish-Swedish authorities commissions thru the 1950s and 1960s. However, disagreement existed concerning the position and precise shape of the link, with some arguing for a hyperlink on the narrowest point of the sound at Helsingor–Helsingborg, further north of Copenhagen, and some arguing for a extra direct link from Copenhagen to Malmo. Additionally, a few nearby and neighborhood pastimes argued that different bridge and road tasks, considerably the then-unbuilt Great Belt Fixed Link, need to take precedence.