Highway to Os exposed again – Bergens Tidende

When the National Transportation was presented in the spring of 2013, most people thought that a parliamentary decision on E39 Svegatjørn-Rådal was just around the corner.

– Finally we are there. Now it boot for winter, cheered Os mayor Soviknes to BT.

NTP stated that the government aimed to put a bompengesak presented to Parliament in autumn 2013. It never happened. New people took office and decided to defer the matter. Now it turns out that Transport Minister Ketil Solvik Olsen also not able to present our case. It is clear from a note Bergens Tidende has accessed the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. It says that the case will first make a decision in Parliament at the end of the year.

– This government has made a name for rising action force and ability. I am disappointed that this matter does not come, says Magne Rommetveit (AP), a member of the transport committee in Parliament.

– examined and investigated

stortingstingsvetak the fall means that a first come started bidding process winter 2015, while the spade probably can be put in the earth after the summer holidays.

BT was last in contact with Os-mayor Soviknes and State Secretary Bard Hoksrud the Ministry of Transport. None of them had any answers when the toll bill will be presented in Parliament. Hoksrud showed that for a couple of months ago had come to new figures on the table that had made the project more expensive which again had complicated the process.

in costs Hoksrud points caused by the BT experience not the project has become more expensive but the government has seen new financing methods. Among other things, the government is working on a new interest compensation for new bomprosjekter. There have also been calls to have prevented it set up tolls on existing roads in the five years Peripherique built, such as the existing plan advocates.

leads to the plans now one years delayed compared with the previous government’s plans.

– The bourgeois parties believed the previous government only studied and investigated. The fact is we who have investigated this matter fully. I call well they could set in motion, says Rommetveit.

Opening in 2021

As a result of the many delays will there be requirements for new quality assurance cost estimate and financing plan because it is delivered will be over one year old when the bill is presented.

According to the note from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration will construction start will be after the summer holidays in 2015, while there will be opening in 2021.

– I can not understand that there must be some uncertainty about this. If one should arrive at something more affordable financing solutions along the way, so one can take it as it comes. It’s been a long road to the is completed, says Rommetveit.

E39 Svegatjørn-Rådal the planned highway between Os and Bergen. The development started at Svegatjørn Os and continues to Rådalen in Bergen. The road will be 16.3 km long and is kostnadsbereknet 6.2 billion (2012), of which approximately 2.6 billion bomfinansiert.