Discourages four lanes to Winton – Smaalenes Newspaper

Today it runs 6,500 vehicles per day on the E18 between Winton and Melleby. This means that if you set yourself up on a transitional bridges, it runs only 13 seconds between each time it passes a car. This is a snittall. During the day traffic denser at night less dense.

In a recently published memorandum states NPRA that traffic is increasing far more than most roads in Østfold. But so will hardly proceed, maintains the agency in the same note.

The last 13 years, traffic has increased by 4.5 percent per year, but this has varied very much underway. One year it was up nearly 9 percent, another year far below 1 percent.
How much traffic is expected to grow, decide what kind of way to build up.

The stretch will be built about for at least 800 million but the question is how many fields it to have. Should pila continue tapping as steep upward, it means 12,000 cars per day in 2027, which in turn implies full four field pathway. But Road Administration refuses to believe that it is as high.

the investigators write:
“Something of traffic growth in recent years resulting from increased road standards. There is considerable uncertainty as to population growth, economic development and border trade. “
According Road Administration is 2.5 percent growth per year is far more likely, and this is a high estimate. But it is figured into the disappearance of tolls will draw traffic figure up.
2.5 percent growth per year means that the road did not need four lanes standard until 2040.
And should the forecast miss and traffic still increase more than 2.5 percent, manages motorists well with tofeltsvei long while to come anyway.

“It is important to be aware that a two-lane road can withstand a great deal more than 12,000 cars per day. Generally, we can add because of liquidation problems will be small with 15,000 vehicles per day and large at 20,000 vehicles per day, “said the forward.

Road Administration therefore believes that stretch between Melleby and Winton to remain tofeltsvei, but with median barriers, and broad shoulders, and additional overtaking lanes in both directions.
This keeps the foreseeable future, even by entering high annual traffic growth.
To build a four-lane way be considered an investment.