“In Sweden, it sometimes seems that the government and the Swedish Transport Agency have not noticed that the Danish state is creating new traffic pulses that risk leading large quantities of trains and trucks directly into Swedish traffic chaos.”
This is what the journalist Erik Magnusson writes in an analysis in the newspaper Sydsvenskan. Here he points out that the Fehmarn Tunnel must be ready in 2029, and that both Denmark and Germany are preparing by upgrading roads and railways.
Nothing has happened I Sweden
But “nothing has happened in Sweden so far”, he points out and warns:
“When all incoming trains and trucks reach Sweden in autumn 2029, they risk getting stuck in a traffic jam in Scania (…). The lorry invasion from the Fehmarn Belt is expected to lead to significantly increased congestion along the already overcrowded motorways on the E4, E6 and E22.”
The criticism is directed at the politicians, because the Swedish owner of the Øresund Bridge, Svedab, has offered to pay for an extension of the railway so that it can handle the many extra freight trains. And the Swedish Transport Agency has also proposed to incorporate the increased traffic in a new traffic plan, but that passage was deleted when the Swedish government approved the plan, he writes.
