American Reacts to Why Norway Has SO MANY Tunnels
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As an American it is a special event if I come across a tunnel, but apearently that is not the case in Norway. Today I am excited to learn about why Norway has so many tunnels, and what that is like. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Try holding your breath while going through Lærdalstunnelen. It’s more than 24K or 15 miles long.
Please do NOT try this. 😅
@@Henrik46 I won’t 😂
Even if we have more than 1200 tunnels, more should be built. There are still so many dangerous roads passing steep mountains where it often comes rock slides. So when you drive there, you may feel you're having your heart in throat when you're passing the most dangerous spot on the road.
Can confirm. Especially north of Trondheim.
True
yup. I sometimes felt faint just being on one of those mountain roads. Polar-night, rain+snow, strong-ish wind, and then the narrow road was almost too much for me as a *passenger*.
@@oceanmythjormundgandr3891 Yes, it can be quite scary sometimes 😵💫
Agreed
i hate tunnels in the summer but i love them in the winter
Yes, there are many tunnels in Norway, as I say "look Norway from the inside". You get a little tired of tunnels. Sometimes I rather take the detour around to look at nature.
Cant relate, simply because i have a fear of heights. Living in Norway with a fear of heights really is a bad combo
When I studied Geoscience to become an Earth scientist back in the 90s, we developed an idea for a guidebook for tourists. The tentative title of this satirical book was "Norway, the views from inside" or something along those lines. Our plan was to mix actual information (like what geological strata, their age of them (etc) with more questionable information (like what troll got petrified nearby to make the mountain).
But then more exams came along.
As an Earth scientist, I do appreciate the tunnels when needing to go places, but I too avoid them when time permits. I guess driving through Lærdalstunellen can work as a tourist attraction by being the longest and having fancy lighting, but the old road between Lærdal and Aurland going over the mountain (Bjørgavegen?). That is a full adventure in itself for everyone who measures travel in "experiences per hour" instead of "miles per hour". The same is true everywhere. As a tourist you want to drive the "Old Sognefjellsvegen" rather than reading my unpublished guidebook from the inside of tunnels on the new and way faster one as often as you can (especially as a tourist).
It is basically the same rule of thumb that is correct for all of Europe. Need to get to Italy/Spain/France (etc.) in a hurry? Sure, do the Autobahn. However, if you want to experience how beautiful Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Poland, Czechia, Sweden, Switzerland (etc.) can be, get off the auto/motorways already. B-roads wins every single time. Some of the finest drives I ever made were on B-roads in Wales and Scotland. Suddenly it made sense why our British friends are obsessed with making the Aston Martin.
Tunnels are for practicality, convenience and safety. But experiences are found of B-roads (unless you have a badger living in the ceiling (a joke that will make zero sense to anyone not Norwegian)
Norway from the inside. gave me a good laugh there :) brilliant, haven't thought of it like that before. but it gets pretty boring after a while for sure.
I have to drive through 25 tunnels (a few underwater ones) just to get to the nearest city. I sure doesn't miss all the ferries we had to take back in the day.
We also have long tunnels (up to 3 km long) only for pedestrians and bicycles. And they even plan to build a substantial ship tunnel in the most weather-exposed shipping berth along the coast 😊
Shudeneskavn (Skudeneshavn) made me laugh! xD 😂🎉❤
Epic pronouncing
Lived a year in the UK and it was weird to never see any tunnels around. When I came back I had a odd appreciation for tunnels.
We even made a tunnels that is 2km + for a tractors for framing.
I feel that tunnel named Spiralen in Drammen really shows Norways love for both tunnels and the outdoors. This tunnel was made because the municipality was going to create two new roads, and there for needed a lot of stone. It was then suggested to take out the stone from a local query and at the same time create a new attraction. The attraction was a 1650m long tunnel that twists 6.5 times upwards to a hight of 213m above sea level. This tunnel was also piched as a solution to make the outdoors more accessible for the population. This feat of engineering has received recognition out side of Norway as well, especially since it was done in 1961.
If you are in the neighborhood you should take the trip to the top, the view is great 👍 😊
Desmond Bagley, who was one of my favourite writers when I was young, wrote a novel where this tunnel were a part of it. In norwegian it's called "På stram line"
@@toreg.nyhammer6328 Oh, I did not know that, thanks! :D
@@Glundberg84 Reknar med du er norsk. Eg trur eg las denne boka då eg var i militæret 1982-83. Syntes den var veldig spennande då i allefall 👍😊 Eg har forresten kjørt gjennom denne tunnelen ein gong. Trur det må ha vore i 1980 eller -81.
@@toreg.nyhammer6328 stemmer det. ;) Ja den tunnelen ble oppgradert for et år tilbake. Fint oppå på Spiralen både sommer som vinter. Om du ikke har vært i Drammen siden 80 tallet så har det skjedd et par forbedringer siden sist du var her. ;)
@@Glundberg84 Ja, eg var inne på nettet og såg ein video av oppgraderingen. Såg fantastisk flott ut 👍😊
If you wonder the music is norwegian made by Edvard Grieg
On a vacation many years ago, I drove through the Lærdal Tunnel. This was when Wikipedia was just a barely known upstart, and way before Google Streetview existed.
What surprised me was that inside the tunnel there were three large cupola-shaped caves, lit with coloured electric light. They are large enough to let you pull over and park, if you want.
The three caves are roughly evenly spaced throughout the tunnel, and I guess that their main purpose is to avoid that people go nuts while driving through 24.5 km (≈ 15.2 miles) of rock.
I live in Austria which has similar terrain problems and lots of tunnels, but of course on a much smaller level than Norway (only 166 tunnels). When I visited my mother about 30km of 200km were in 10 tunnels with 10km for the longest.
I saw (and drove) my first single track tunnels this year in Norway.
I moved to Bergen on the west coast a few years ago and we drove from eastern Norway. When we were halfway on our journey we had driven through 3 tunnels, but by the time we finished we had driven through more than 60.
You have underwater tunnels in the US as well, f.ex. the Holland tunnel between Manhattan and Jersey City
in the area I live in, we have a tunnel under water from the mainland to an Island. before they build the tunnel they only had 1 boat that went back and forth and probably took 30-60min but with the tunnel it takes maybe 5 minutes. only downside its if it is raining too much draining the water takes more time so the tunnel can be closed and then you stuck on that Island until it opens x) rarely happen
Fun to see my hometown of Øvre Årdal in your video and yes there is about 56 tunnels between here and Bergen and one of them is the world longest road tunnel😊
Er det Lærdalstunellen?
@@BeatheGoth-uk5tj Ja
There are some underwater tunnels in the US. The New Jersey tunnel between Manhattan and Jersey, for example. There is a longer one a bit south of NY as well.. Another fun fact, the longest tunnel in the US that is used by cars is a single lane tunnel.
A couple of other reasons for building tunnels that is not mentioned, is smoothing (and simplifying) flow of transportation and diverting the flow for environmental reasons - witness all the tunnels running below the capital of Oslo to ease transportation and logistics from one side to the other, and between different main areas - without congestion and heavy city traffic.
Essentially traffic flows under - not thru the city.
Although going around is a possibility, it is much longer in both time and distance.
There are separate tunnels for rail, cars & heavy transport and subway (sub-surface)
In Denmark we have about 2500 bridges and Tunnels. It's to connect the country with each other and to other countries around us. And from what I know - we are building a bridge call: Fermmern to Germany. Some is below the sea and other is over the sea. I think the 2 longest bridges goes from: Sjælland to Jylland and from Denmark to Sweden. Some of the bridges and tunnels - trains can also cross it. And we are a smaller country than Norway. It's like the transportation... it connect the country: Trains, busses and boats. It makes the it possible to getting around.
In norway its about 16.700 bridges+1200 tunels but ofcourse we mounten,fjords, lakes, rivers and lager geografi.
As someone living in Haugesund, the tunnel going to Randaberg will be great, as two of my siblings live there, to not need to use the ferry all the time will be great.
Also, to get to Skudeneshavn, there's an option of a bridge close to Haugesund over to Karmøy, the island that Skudneshavn is on, or a tunnel going under the water accessed further inland, which has an under water roundabout in the tunnel, as you can also use it to reach towards the road leading to the area the new tunnel will be going from, as that's where the ferry terminal is as well.
Ah, a fellow Haugaland-person! The roundabout in the underwater tunnel is always fun, feels so futuristic with the blue neon light
I totally appreciate that the new E39 tunnel will be welcomed by locals.
However, I found the ferry to be a nice beak before the rest of my trip.
But as I've switched to drive EV, I guess I'll enjoy the tunnel, and have the break while charging 🙂
At 8:00 like this road, love a good switchback road.
I've been watching RailCowGirl's train ride videos from Norway and yes, the railway network in Norway also have alot of tunnels.
And beautiful ones! Love RailCowGrils videos
The movie missed the 4th reason; to reduce traffic in streets. Most tunnels through the Oslo urban area is built to keep traffic passing through Oslo away from the streets and city roads.
In Norway every inhabitant is entitled to have one tunnel, thats the reason why. You get one when you reach the age of 21, and the King of Norway himself, is personaly shaking your hands and gratulate you with your own tunnel!
I got two tunnels, including the Lærdal tunnel. It is all yours, the King said.
At the beginning when you said Americans like to hold their breath while going through tunnels, I immediately started thinking about Lærdalstunnelen of I believe it is 25 km. It takes ish 20 minutes to get through, good luck :)
We awakened something horrible beneath Bergen, (striler) And we drilled thru elder absurdium beneath Mount Doom for the Flytog-shuttle to Gardermoen airport.
Eg e stril, og eg hørde ka du sa! No må'kje de byfanta atteleta på inkjevettå.
I visited my dad today (it's fathers day ❤) it's about a 25 min drive each way, I drove an alternative route back home. 8 tunnels ⛰️🚗
Ther is atleast one underwater tunnel in the U.S. Chesapeak Bay Bridge Tunnel, i have not driven in it but i have crossed it many times with oceangoing vessels.
I go trough three tunnels just on my 10 min drive to work, never really thought about it
6:30
Sometimes you have the choice between building a bridge and a tunnel, but the weather conditions are such that a bridge would be closed way too often, while the tunnel is open and free to use almost all the time.
11:22
Sliding off the road is *not* a concern, being hit by a two ton rock falling from the mountain above you is...
Thank you for this video Tyler Bucket it was most informative.
Funfact, we made a catastophy-movie about tunnels, its called "Tunellen". And its kinda good! You should see it, and be paranoid every time you drive through a long tunnels 😂
I live where a part of the new E39 was built, and part of that, we got some new tunnels. It makes driving just so easy, especially for me, I have an old Golf without all the new technology and driving the old roads can be dangerous especially im winter
Bridges? Yes, there are around 22600 bridges in Norway for road traffic, rail and pedestrian bridges are not counted. Here in Lofoten there are a lot of them in addition to tunnels under the sea or tunnels through mountains. Our longest tunnel that connects Lofoten Islands to the mainland roads is 6,33 km or almost 4 miles long.
@Tyler, The Lincoln Tunnel from New York City to New Jersey goes under the Hudson. Maybe not the sea, but still under water. Nicely tiled walls too. 10/10
3:19 yes. 50 tunnels
Today i only made it to 0:15 before i had to pause, new record for me and you Tyler :) Norway is very much like America, perhaps not like Florida all year round, BUT we do get tropical summers and even "indian summer" occasionally. :) anyways... Montana and Wyoming is very much like Norway in both flora and fauna together with climate. Basically all your states with winter tyres are your "Norwayesque" states sir.
Its just that we prioritise shorter road travel than scenic road travel. We are just too cheap to build them wide like in America so we can have higher speeds than 60-80-60-40-30-40-60-80-100-60-50-60-40 and the unicorn of 110.
Many times americans forget how large a timezone and longitudes they claim as theirs, from some remote island in the pacific to almost the north pole.
US underwater tunnels definatly exists. I seem to recall a disaster movie from to 80s about people stuck in one.
The 90km drive from Bergen to Voss takes 1.5 hours and has 40 tunnels.
Are you norwigan to?
The funny shit is that i who live in haugesund have mixed feelings about the tunnel to randaberg, because, growing up we always had to take the ferry. The ferry is just nostalgic too me now and i dont have a problem with it per ce
We drive through 47 tunnels in the two hours it takes us to drive to our cabin in the mountains. That's western Norway for you.
Yay, randaberg got mentioned, my home Town 👌😇
this video forgot the cruise ships tunnel so the huge cruise ships can pass through a whole mountain.
it also forgot the jogging tunnel that have recently opened in Bergen. A 3km long tunnel with special soft ground for those who want to run.
There is also a lot to show regarding the beautiful coloured lights in the tunnels and the roundabouts inside of the mountain.
Another video about norwegian tunnels can surely complete all these missing things.
And the longest one is over 24 km. The tunnel is awsome!!
The blue fox thing is really weird.
Like, disturbingly weird.
Why does he hide behi.. strange.
2:38 it’s for snow btw
the problem is that Manny of the routs going over the muntin is closed moths of the winter due to a lot of snow so they had to go around taking hoers to days on Icey slivery rods whit steep drops and narrow corners and now it takes around halve an our thru the Laerdal tunnel so they daunt haw to shot everting down in winter on top of that the muntin rods crews a lot of meantness due to frost damages the tunnels haw a near constant temperatures so the asphalt last mush longer
9:17 That's the $47 billion floating highway you reacted to one year ago
and that why every Norwegians way of talking is super diffrent. 100 years ago, there were no tunnels, there where no direct snow moved road to use. so every part of norway in vallys etc developed their own way of speaking Norwegian. i dont know how many, but must be 100s of ways to speak Norwegian, and 99% of them sounds stranger to me than Swedish. But i grew up watching Pipi, Emil and Botsman.
Prioritizing tunnel and bridge projects connecting tiny communities is a bit crazy and has probably put more important road projects on hold. If you think about it, the more populous areas don't have the infrastructure it should. But things are improving now though.
I often drive through a tunnel that takes me 10-15 minutes each way to get through
Edit: And… Its actually that first tunnel we see…
Edit2: Aah, i KNEW i recognised that voice
We don't have a coastal highway on the Pacific Coast of Canada. The geography is similar to Norway, so to build a route, it would take a lengthy combination of bridges and tunnels all the way. We have a region that is referred to as Fjordland.
Fjordland - Land of fjords (direct translation)
I'm Norwegian, and i've never tought of this before! But yes we do have alot of tunnels 😅
yeay. ulsteinvik is my home town. you se a sign at 8.24 that say Ulsteinvik🥳
Here in Kristiansand when you are driving 15 km you must drive thru 4 tunnels.
I Counted 13 tunnels in Kristiansand
E18: 3
Prestheia: 1
[456]/E39: 1
Måvannsvegen: 1
E39: 7
don't know if there are some rural ones I've missed 🙂
@@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 from Vågsbygd where I live and to the zoo there are 4 tunnels. 1. vågsbygdporten. 2. Baneheiatunnelen. 3. Oddernestunnelen. 4 Haumyrheitunnelen.
@@takjoniks that direction for commute is a pain, if you have to do it at peak rush hour. I used to do that 10 years ago, before I moved and reduce my daily commute to 5 minutes.
Then I had a period commute in the other direction. That was much easier, watching the eastbound queue at Auglandsbukta/Kjosbukta in the morning, and westbound in Baneheiatunnel in the afternoon.
I remember the rush hours commuting from Vågsbygd, before Vågsbygdporten then the merge for the bridge.
I'm curious about how the temporary traffic arrangements while building the new bridge will handle peak hours, and I'm happy as long as I don't have to experience it every day. I believe they will handle peak hours better than some might fear, but not as good as the new bridge will.
I bet that is because of the Snow. It can glide...Pulverschnee or if a big Mass of a Snowplate starts to glide down. So sure..it is more safe and can still trabel or if an emergency hapoens...it would be better not to dig snow and not being able to go forward. Being Stucked wouldn't be that good. One Way Lane Tunnels seem also strange to me cause it could be dangerous and also what happens if there is an accident inside ? Where are the exit lanes ? We have also tunnels here in Austria but they are either near to the Highway Autobahn or high up in the Mountains like the Brenner Pass or the long Tauern Tunnel where something happend in the 90's. These have Exits every 500 meters or so (? Idk) in such Case. They have built it in also afterwards these terrible Accidents. They had less and that's why they couldn't come through. It was a bad thing here at that time. So they built more Exits to escape ..im Notfall.
Avalanche
You should check out Nordkapp. The northern most part of Europe
I personally get very suspicious when I drive for too long without coming across a tunnel. It's strange.
I look at Google Earth and see some mountains around Colorado and Arizona. The difference is, that you, in US, just make a hill up the mountain instead through it and save the cost of gas and save the environment and why go around instead of through the "hill"...?
We have one of the longest underwater tunnels
Imagine trying to hold your breath through every tunnel you drive through xD. insane
Of course that is something that kids would think of doing.
@@mikebrown9412 I mean as in here (I'm norwegian) that would be insane because you often are underground for 10-15m through tunnels.
You should visit Norway buddy ❤
Driving from Bergen to Oslo requires you to drive over the highlands which is safe in the summer, but has a very unstable weather in the winter. Even National Geographics have made an entire tv show called ice road rescue about that road.
Much safer to just make a tunnel to escape bad weather on the mountains.
Here is a clip of roads with snow.
czcams.com/video/lG8jDu0xyQk/video.html&ab_channel=MatthewNorway
if im not wrong the tunnels that are under the water in new york its was the norwegians who build it
it is 1260 tunnels and spans across 1550 km or 155 mil
Yet another reason is to pass cities without driving through areas close to the city centre..
less maintenance on tunnels then roads on mountains since they are not affected by water.
We like for the tourists to see norway from the inside
You need to see a norwegian movie that called tunnelen good movie
Take a flight in Google Earth, and look at height differences, and mountains and fjords in norway
I mean, at this stage it is just that we are good at making tunnels and we love making tunnels.
LETS MAKE MORE!
WE NEED MORE!!!! It shortens your route, it makes your route safer. America is FLAT, Norway is not so much :P But its not just to change a ferry to a bridge or tunnel. It costs billions to build and thats too much for the 5 persons living on the island. So ferry is better.
Hint: Lincoln tunnel US has underwater tunnels
Short story - Lot of mountains.
I have tunnel fobia and hate driving to west of Norway 😢 get totally anxiety attack, turn around 😢
We are about to construckt a tunnel for ships to😂
9:30 Skudeneshavn, Karmøy
This is where the copper in the Statue of Liberty is from.. Kopervik = "Copper Bay"
czcams.com/video/ais6k0JJfPs/video.html&ab_channel=ManungBaru
We should make one more video and coment on this guy comments on the other guys comments😂
I go through 5 tunnels and over 4 bridges every day on way to work, anoying as not all of the tunnels got good 4g/5g connection, so it stops the movie im trying to watch on my 1 and a half hour way to work XD, i take the bus btw, no driving for me thankfully
It goes under the Gulfstream
thats not even counting the railroad tunnels
Norwegians are like the dwarves. Live and breed under the mountains with their treasures. But the difference is that they got lusekofte instead of a beard.
I mean, Norway is basically all one massive mountain range so it's not that surprising.
And yes speaking off the government really caring. Norway only have about 5,5 million citicen, so the way i see it, norway cant afford too loose people because the country isnt safe or accecable enough. But belive me when its sunny and you drive through a tunnel and forget to take your glasses off when entering and or on whilst exiting, your either gonna see pitch black or belive that god is here to take you up
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Nice seeing someone reacting to FurryFoofi!
5:53 water for f*** disrespect water has nothing to do with it
i like that 80% of the video is from Møre og Romsdal
Tunnels to stop snow avalanches too…
is alote of tunnels and i tried of it for i am from norway and is to many
Americans: wow how did you get so strong
Norwegian: every time i drive trug a tunnel i do 1 push up
Americans: jesust kisest
Norway values its citizens where America does not care less about its citizens at all.
From Lillehammer to Oslo it’s like 30 tunnels on the e6 and the longest tunnel I believe is like 1,6 km long
If you don’t guess it, am an Norwegian and I live around your balls😂😂😂
your answer is mountains...
In Tyler's Evansville, Indiana, everything other than fields of corn = "novelty."
I think it’s a little sad that Norway wants to replace all the ferry’s with tunnels ..
While traveling far, the ferries can be a welcome rest, but for the locals, they are mostly annoying.
@@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 I’m one of the locales in west coast Norway and we had many locals here that have tried to stop them from taking all the ferry’s away but it’s a lost cause.. so there is many people who appreciate the ferry’s to …
@@anettv6150 yes. I suppose there are negative effects for some locals too
The ferries might be part of one's identity, where one might feel something is missing when the ferry is gone.
Not all routes will be improved. If you start close to Mortavika, going towards Bergen, your trip will surely be faster using the ferry; by the time you are at Randaberg, you would be close to Arsvågen by ferry. Then you add the 27km tunnel, that's not saving 40 minutes (as promised)
I probably missed tons of arguments why some locals want to keep the ferries, but not want the tunnels.
My firs comment was more about some locals, where they feel the ferry is an inconvenient barrier for their daily/frequent commute, as a contrast to my trips, where I travel maybe 4 hours before Mortavika, and I remember having "Kompe" on the ferry was something I was looking forward to for my weekly commute (for a fe moths many years ago)
@@thorbjrnhellehaven5766 I live south Karmøy (Skudeneshavn) and we had a ferry that went from here to Stavanger.. they closed the ferry many years ago but Stavanger was a lot closer when we had the ferry.. and it was a lot more relaxing instead of driving through all those long tunnels
@@anettv6150 don't say "many years" that makes me feel so old. Less than two decades. I traveled that route in 2007, I believe.
I remember making sure to not be late, to avoid going around, because that's a long trip.
I totally understand the annoyance of losing that ferry, living where you do.
I firmly believe that Elon Musk got his idea for his Boring Company from one of his many visits in Norway.
Try to hold your breath of you go trow tossentuneln
A lot of the tunnels is only for animals walking over highways.