Magnificent photos

[red750]

I received an email from a friend containing a .pdf file with a PowerPooint slidesow of 67 photos of the Western Atlantic Highway in Norway. I thought I wouold share 3 with you.

 

[nomadpete]

Peter, where are these bridges? Pic 2 seems to show a carriageway only one truck wide!

[onetrack]

Peter, the roadway is only 6.5M wide - not exactly our standard National Highway width of 8M - more like our old 60's and 70's National Highway width of 6M.

 

I'm guessing the speed limit there is relatively low, the entire length of this Atlantic Highway is only 8.3km, so not exactly a long-distance trip.

It also has an 8% gradient that would pose a minimum limit on the horsepower level, or a maximum of gross vehicle/combination mass, of the trucks using it, too.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean_Road

 

It looks like lots of granite in the construction, that would've made it an expensive piece of construction, and hard on equipment, too!

 

Edited November 13, 2022 by onetrack

[red750]

These images will give you an idea of the width of the road.

 

[Marty_d]

Looks like it'd be great fun on a motorbike, on a nice sunny day of course and with no other traffic on the road!

[onetrack]

Those bridges are a work of art, as well as being engineering masterpieces! Can you imagine the level of calculations and the construction hassles in building a curved bridge with a hump in it?

[Old Koreelah]

Little Norway can afford this amazing infrastructure because of their sensible policies; they have a trillion dollars in national savings.

Australia might have been in the same position if we had enacted one of Whitlam’s policies. Instead, we are a trillion in debt, foreign corporations make huge profots from our resources and don’t pay tax.

[facthunter]

Norway was the country we had to fight hard to not have them drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.. Clean at home though.. Nev