The Måbø Tunnel ( Norwegian : Måbøtunnelen ) is a 1,893-meter (6,211 ft) tunnel along Norwegian National Road 7 in the municipality of Eidfjord in Vestland county, Norway .
5-506: The tunnel is the longest of the four tunnels in the Måbø Valley . It was completed in 1984 and was officially opened together with the other tunnels in 1986. The road and its tunnel system replaced the narrow and difficult road through the Måbø Valley that was opened in 1916. The old route through the Måbø Valley has been preserved as a hiking and cycling route. The route has been included in
10-653: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National Protection Plan for Roads, Bridges, and Road-Related Cultural Heritage The National Protection Plan for Roads, Bridges, and Road-Related Cultural Heritage ( Norwegian : Nasjonal verneplan for veger, bruer og vegrelaterte kulturminner ) was published by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in 2002 in the volume Vegvalg (Road Selection). The plan contains road heritage in Norway dating from 1537 to 1999 that has been owned or used by
15-640: The National Protection Plan for Roads, Bridges, and Road-Related Cultural Heritage and was protected by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage in 2009. On August 15, 1988, a bus carrying schoolchildren and parents from Kista , Sweden suffered a brake failure in the Måbø Tunnel and drove into the tunnel wall. Sixteen people died in the accident , including 12 children 11 and 12 years old. This Norwegian tunnel-related article
20-552: The Public Roads Administration was ordered by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to prepare a protection plan in cooperation with the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage . Over 1,000 road heritage sites were registered and mapped, and 97 historical road milieus and 173 individual structures were included in the plan. The plan was issued in book form and it is available for free online. The protection plan
25-477: The state. ( National heritage from before 1537 is automatically protected under the Cultural Heritage Act of 1978.) In addition to roads and bridges, some of the Public Roads Administration's own machinery, equipment, and buildings are included in the plan. However, no ferries are included in the plan, and streets, boulevards, stepping stones , and winter roads are not systematically registered. In 1997,
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