Bridge · Norway

How much did the new Svinesund Bridge between Norway and Sweden cost to build?

The new Svinesund Bridge is a 704 m arch bridge with a 247 m main span carrying the E6 over the Idefjord on the Norway–Sweden border, built from 2003 to 2005, inaugurated on 10 June 2005 and opened to traffic a few days later, and paid off through tolls by 15 March 2021. Göteborgs-Posten and the Norwegian Wikipedia give its cost as about SEK 675 million (NOK 616 million), English Wikipedia gives NOK 500 million for the bridge, and the whole border-crossing project with approaches, customs and interchanges cost SEK 1.3 to 1.4 billion.