Vejle Fjord Bridge

Vejle Fjord Bridge Vejlefjordbroen
Coordinates	55°42′00″N 9°34′23″E
Carries	Motor vehicles
Crosses	Vejle Fjord
Locale	Vejle, Denmark
Characteristics
Design	cantilever bridge
Total length	1,712 m (5,617 ft)
Width	27.6 m (90.6 ft)
Clearance below	40 metres (131 ft)
No. of lanes	6
History
Designer	Hvidt & Mølgaard
Opened	1 July 1980
Statistics
Daily traffic	86,000 daily road vehicles
Location

Vejle Fjord Bridge (Danish: Vejlefjordbroen) is a cantilever bridge that spans Vejle Fjord between Mølholm and Nørremarken near the town of Vejle in Denmark. The bridge is 1712 metres long, the longest span is 110 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 40 metres. The bridge has 15 spans and carries the European route E45 (before 1992 European route E3) over the fjord.

Vejle Fjord Bridge was built to lead traffic past the town of Vejle, where traffic congestion had become a problem in the 1970s. The building started in 1975, and the bridge was opened on July 1, 1980. It cost 350 million kroner. The bridge now has more traffic than any other motorway bridge in Denmark (if not counting short viaducts near Copenhagen such as the Tåstrupvej viaduct)

External links

• Media related to Vejle Fjord Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
• The Vejle Fjord Bridge - Highways-Denmark.com
• Pictures of Vejle Fjord Bridge
• Picture of and data about the bridge
• Webcam on the bridge Archived 2009-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Vejle Fjord Bridge at Structurae
• http://home.no.net/lotsberg/data/danmark/bru.html Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Pictures from Vejle municipality's web page: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5][6]