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The highway construction in Upper Valais is a money pit: the 32-kilometer section between Brig and Sierre is expected to cost 4.4 billion francs. The Riedberg tunnel near Gampel is particularly expensive to build: Here, a meter of motorway costs CHF 393,000, which is only slightly less than a 640 hp Lamborghini Huracan STO Coupé. However, in a nationwide comparison, the tunnel is far from leading.
The gilding of highway sections seems to have a long tradition in wealthy Switzerland. For example, a roof is currently being built on an existing section of 940 meters between the Zurich-Ost junction and the Schöneich Tunnel, which will be completed next year. Typically for highway construction in Switzerland, just under a kilometer will cost 445 million francs, which is at least 130 million francs more than originally planned. That’s 473,000 francs per meter for a roof over the road.
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However, the focus of the project is noise protection: from the residents’ point of view, every franc should be a sensible investment. These can develop an unusually close relationship with the surrounding highway, as a green and open space for recreation is planned on the roof of the highway.
A particularly large amount of money has been invested in the asphalt of Nordtangente, which opened in Basel in 2007. In its 50-year history, it has not spent as much time as the as yet unfinished section in Upper Valais. The cost of the 3.2 kilometer section is CHF 1.55 billion. This is 484,000 francs per meter of strip. A double-decker bridge over the Rhine and a long tunnel make the road section the most expensive in Switzerland.
New tunnel for tunnel renovation
The Belchen Tunnel, which connects the cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Solothurn, also benefits from a luxurious renovation: the federal government has built a third tunnel into the mountain so that the two tunnel tubes can be renewed without major restrictions for the region. for 550 million CHF. The opening took place last year.
Since then, the two old tubes have been refurbished for CHF 423 million. Planned completion date: 2033. According to current calculations, the 3,180 meter long section of the highway will cost 306,000 CHF per meter. However, large cost overruns are common in such projects. As a result, the renovation should not cost much less per meter compared to the completely newly built Riedberg Tunnel in Valais.
Biel BE also almost took the first place on the list. One of the most expensive street rugs in Switzerland would be laid for car traffic in the city. 2.2 billion francs for 7.2 kilometers of highway. That would be 306,000 CHF per metre. But an alliance resisted. The federal government and the canton finally withdrew the project in December 2020.
Source :Blick
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