Fehmarn Belt bridge
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The Fehmarn Belt bridge is a project to connect the German island Fehmarn with the Danish island Lolland with a bridge crossing the Fehmarn Belt in the Baltic Sea. The Fehmarn Belt is 18 kilometres wide.
Politically, the governments of both countries are determined to proceed with this project within the next decade. They are hoping to begin construction by 2010, with a projected completion and opening by 2015. However there have been objections from local people in Germany, both environment protectionists, and people fearing loss of jobs in connections with today's intensive ferry traffic.
The design has preliminarily been decided to be a double-span cable-stayed bridge, with four road lanes and two rail tracks.
The project is comparable to the Oresund Bridge, the Great Belt Bridge or the project of the Strait of Messina Bridge and would be the biggest near future project in the infrastructure of Northern Europe. The route is the main connection between Hamburg, (Hamburg Metropolitan Region), and Copenhagen/Malmö, (Oresund Region); (in German: Vogelfluglinie, in Danish: fugleflugtslinjen).
