The West Link railway connection is in total about eight kilometers long. Around six kilometers of the railway link will be built in a tunnel beneath the city of Gothenburg. Four kilometers of the tunnel go through rock, and we will blast our way through the rock to construct the tunnel. Two kilometers run through soil and dirt. These parts of the tunnel is built by using a cut-and-cover technique. This means that we dig a shaft in the ground, to make room for a tunnel made of concrete. The concrete tunnel is lowered in the shaft and covered.
The citizens are most affected by the parts of the tunnel built in dirt. This because of the open shafts and temporary redirecting of traffic. To limit the impact on the city, the construction work is divided into several segments. As with all major infrastructural projects, we will not be fully able to avoid interference, but we are daily working to find solutions to minimize impacts during construction.
The map is showing the route of the West Link and the different types of tunnel. The blue lines show the parts of concrete tunnel built in dirt/soil, and the red lines show the parts of tunnel built in rock.
