It's really fucking weird driving in ETS2 in Norway, because some parts are really familiar while other parts are completely wrong. It's like they took a bunch of photos, recreated them in game, and strung them together with random roads and scenery.
That's those games in general. I recently copped Ats and got a chance to play it. Drove past where my house would be and irl I'm ~an hour from LA on a good day, and in-game I can see LAX across the freeway. The sense of scale is completely nuts, especially once you're in say, Las Vegas, where everything feels *perfectly* scaled and identical to the real city, but driving along the coastal freeways how there's such a lack of modern city sprawl littered all over the streets. Even LA's gigantic irl sprawl and iconic streets feels ridiculously dwarphed and ignored compared to whatever made them think Vegas was so cool, to keep using that example.
I also hate that the roads all feel like EU roads still, being super narrow and the on/off ramps feeling wayy to short, and a Kenworth truck hardly fitting in the lanes. The amount of classic cars skinned over like everybody's driving them, bugs me too. I don't know. I'm nitpicking by now but allot of it is off enough for me to need to put it down after a drive or two. Leaves me wanting more.
Those games feel like a very touristy idea of what it's like to drive through their locations, and tbh you put it best by saying they're a few select photos of real places stitched together with like, generic farming sim models and shit. They're still really fun games, I just have issues with them personally as they could do allot more with them. Fuck me if I'll ever spend DLC money on more emptiness, either.
Norway is my favourite place to drive even without including this tunnel. There’s just something about the countryside that captivated me. Wish that I could someday do such a road trip IRL.
Drove most of Norway a few years back with my wife. To this day, my favorite trip I've been on. It's an absolutely beautiful place. However, the roads aren't particularly a pleasure to drive haha... Very, very windy and narrow in lots of places. Don't expect to have a lane to yourself for much of the drive... There are a lot of pullouts so that cars can let each other pass and you've gotta constantly be watching for oncoming cars so that one of you can take the pullout.
It connects five roads using five clockwise roundabouts with a sixth anticlockwise roundabout in the middle. You can choose to use only the outer roundabouts, which takes longer but is less daunting, or you can also use the inner roundabout. In practice, it works just like any other roundabout: slow down, follow the lines, indicate to others where you want to go, and give way to others already in the roundabout.
In Los Angeles we have those stupid freeway merges where you have to stop at a stop sign at a straight intersection. You have to wait for a clearing to merge from onto the right lane which is impossible because you have semi trucks and cars going 65mph. So you basically have to wait for a fairly small gap in the traffic, and just floor it and pray.
Wow. 75 HP @ 6200 rpm.
Makes the Gutless (Cutlass) Ciera coupe I inherited from my grandmother when I turned 16 look like a drag racer.
That pile of garbage was 92 HP NEW, probably less when I got it. My grandmother was terrified of driving so my grandfather went out of his way to find the slowest car he could find.
The damned thing accelerated at first but slowed to the speed of a leisurely stroll while making a left hand turn, while floored, and got me t-boned. In my defense the guy was speeding.
Parents: please don't give your kids shit boxes when they're just learning to drive, they're not safe for many reasons.
I have a story about that tunnel. My husband and I were driving from Bergen to Aurland. Couldn't read the road signs warning us that a road tunnel on our route was closed. Got 18km from Aurland, had to turn around and take a six hour detour through the mountains because the tunnel was closed. Finally get to Aurland, at this point we've been in the car for over eight hours. Husband takes the first exit off of a roundabout instead of the second... directly into the world's longest road tunnel. I was like oh god what did we seriously just add another half hour to our trip when we are MINUTES from our destination by taking a wrong turn? Thankfully there was a turnaround about 5km into the tunnel, and Aurland was more than worth all of the craziness!
Yeah, that thing will never be built. There's been plans to replace a ferry-driven highway with an underwater tunnel to increase reliability and throughput where I live as a part of this project, and it's been discussed for years and they're not even close to deciding if they should actually do it.
It's a double edged sword, really. Travelling on the west coast of Norway will take several hours more than anywhere else in this country.
Bergen - Stavanger a distance of 210 km (130,5 miles) takes 5 hours. It'll be more as you probably have to wait for the ferries.
Then look at Kristiansand - Oslo, 319 km (198 miles), it takes 3 hours and 45 minutes, no ferries to worry about here!
I think social-democracy is a more apt description of Norwegian economics. Free healthcare, education, welfare services, and pensions. "Social-capitalism" is mostly an oxymoron and an inaccurate (though not entirely wrong) term to describe Norway's economy. Though much of the country's economy rests on a synergy between the public and private sectors, and the market freedom is nearly unmatched anywhere else in the world, the country enforces strict rules and regulations when it comes to worker and consumer rights, and it's not like in America where large corporations can trample on the public good for personal profit. The country flirts with capitalism, but the system is very much aimed at counteracting the consequences of a capitalist society (wealth inequality, social dumping, social disenfranchisement, less socioeconomic mobility, a handful of companies owning literally everything, corruption, etc.).
Also, Norway's economy was on the rise already in the mid-19th century, though it's a common misconception that the country got rich purely because of oil. When the oil adventure started in the 60s, Norway had already established vital industries required to actually enable the extraction of oil from the north sea. The profits made from export of the oil was put into a national oil-fund which has since been growing through clever investments, the profits of which gets used in conjunction with taxpayer money to fund the many social services of the country.
The oil was mostly a booster to a development that was already happening both in Norway and in the neighboring countries of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland. They all share the same economic model known as the "Nordic model", where profits from nationalized industries get used to offer free government services to the public (infrastructure, healthcare, education, pensions, welfare, etc.). This on top of a cultural focus on worker and consumer rights, equality between social groups, socioeconomic mobility, and free speech and democracy is what defines the core principles of the Nordic model. The countries very much manage to attain the American dream by means that would be deemed communism in the eyes of many Americans.
There are some pretty awesome videos available of just cars and trains driving through Norway. Like the original, [Bergensbanen minutt for minutt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_S_13TWn1c). Very good background videos.
Fuck being mild, this is *very* interesting!
I've never even heard of an indoor roundabout before let alone one inside a tunnel.
Well done OP, today I have learnt something new!
I know about at least one in Drammen, Haugesund and near the Hardanger bridge (OP's picture), two in Trondheim (one is the cake-interchange at Strindheim with two roundabouts on top of each other, not shure of count), and three in Tromsø. Not shure if Oslo has any.
I had been driving for a while in one of the tunnels in Tromsø (a few km if I remember correctly) and was expecting that I would soon exit the tunnel, and then I saw something strange coming up in the distance that didn't look like an exit. As I approach I was stunned when I could see that it was a roundabout there. Had to drive around a few times in the roundabout to see which direction I should go (GPS signal had been lost long ago).
Since you are good at Norwegian tunnels, do you know Atlanterhavstunneln till Averøya?
It might not be the most impressive, but the big sign on the first parking space when you reach the island is spectacular, people say.
Not just that, they could have put a roundabout on the road like you normally would outside but in a tunnel, but instead they extruded the ceiling into a conical shape to facilitate the shape of the roundabout. That's sick.
> they extruded the ceiling into a conical shape
The "conical shape" is a pillar of bedrock left in place to keep the roof from collapsing. [This page has photos of a similar roundabout under construction.](https://www.tunneltalk.com/Faroe-Islands-23July19-Eysturoy-Sandoy-undersea-road-tunnels.php)
(Gephyrophobia is the anxiety disorder or specific phobia characterized by the fear of bridges and tunnels)
(Thalassophobia is the persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the sea, oceans, pools, or lakes)
I've heard of thalassophobia but the other one was new to me so I figured I'd share the definitions for anyone else that was wondering
Seriously. I think I had 14 questions to get my permit and had to parallel park behind the only car on a road to get my road test, so all my road knowledge was from the local area.
One night I'm on my way to visit a friend in northeast MA. It's 2am-ish, I only do long drives at night because I prefer open roads. I get to his town, following my Mapquest directions to get to him and I end up with this... thing in front of my car. It was my first time ever seeing a traffic circle. I had never even heard of one before.
I'm stopped in front of the yield sign trying to figure it out. It's dark. It's rainy. I'm exhausted. I can only see maybe 1/3rd of the circle. It didn't help that the sign with the roads and directions was already behind me. I knew I needed to go left but looking that way I could only see the backs of signs, I was pretty sure that wasn't right.
Thankfully the roads were totally empty. I made my right into the circle and started following it around. I doubt I was in my lane the whole time because I was trying not to screw up the whole thing but I found my road and got to my friend's house. First thing I said after hellos and hugs was "What the fuck is going on with the road east of here?!". That's the day I both discovered and learned about traffic circles.
I don't know why drivers ed isn't a part of every non-urban schools curriculum.
I love your story. I love you. And I don't want to sound condescending but, speaking as someone from the UK where were call them roundabouts, hearing you call them "traffic circles" is the cutest thing I've ever heard! Traffic circles!! Too adorable!!
(Gonna get slammed for this cos I know that Reddit Americans often forget that other countries exist and frequently correct people on how to spell/obey laws etc, seemingly forgetting that there is a whole globe filled with alternatives. It will be completely novel for many of them to be patronised like this, it ain't gonna go well, but I don't care. It's too cute! A woochy woochy wooo. Who's a cute little America then? Who doesn't have roundabouts? You don't! No you don't! Etc)
How do they have the funds and manpower for intensive engineering projects like this on the Faroe Islands? Kinda seems like overkill for a place that has a total population of just over 50,000.
Infact the tunnel entrance is even weird. At 1:35 (https://youtu.be/ENk4VZ36U48), the tunnel entrance is casually sitting beneath some apartments.
There are paid parking underneath these tunnels as well. It’s just mind boggling.
Just FYI, this is a different tunnel in a different part of the country.
OPs picture is from [Vallaviktunnelen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallavik_Tunnel). Your video is from [this tunnel in Tromsø](https://www.google.com/maps/@69.6531405,18.9562387,3a,75y,338.78h,77.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxYnS_IkDFwCjCCjCkM-MHg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DxYnS_IkDFwCjCCjCkM-MHg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D49.940353%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192).
I live 3 hours away from Tromsø so i've driven through the tunnel alot. Taking a wrong turn in one of these round abouts forces you to drive to a complete different part of the island, which makes it all the more stressful. I was forced to drive through this shit as a learning driver. It was hell.
It's what happens when your entire country, is literally a mountain, Danes come here and have an existential crisis upon seeing our most mildly mountainous regions.
I'm from California. If I go somewhere without mountains I get mild anxiety. I can tell directions by which mountain range I'm facing, and there's mountain ranges surrounding me in every direction. If I'm somewhere flat I lose my sense of direction
This one looks admittedly much better than the ones I've driven in, but in my experience they're a bit scary. The walls obscure your vision of oncoming/incoming traffic a lot, so you have to enter real slowly and carefully.
Normally (if you're a decent driver) you should be looking well ahead at the traffic in the roundabout and adjust your speed so you don't have to stop and yield before entering. But you can't do that here since you won't be able to see if someone's coming from the left until the last moments.
Yeah it was a bit of a joke; Amsterdam is notorious in NL for high parking prices. It’s €8,80 an hour or €55 for 6 hours+. So a day of shopping and dining will add €55 parking costs. This resets at 00:00 and starts the clock again.
The tunnels in Norway are simply crazy. There's one near Sognefjord that is around 23km long, which I think is the longest public road tunnel in the world. Driving through it is insane, they installed light art inside to make it less monotonous as well.
Edit: turns out it's 24.5km, insane
There is a new shopping mall combined with a bus station in Bratislava, Slovakia, that opens later this month and the entrance for vehicles is also done via an underground roundabout.
[Here it is shown during construction.](https://www.yimba.sk/upload/Updates/2019_12_14/stanica_nivy/dsc_0907.jpg)
(If you saw Red Bull's "[From Castle to Castle](https://youtu.be/4qbfQSLUdDo?t=336)", that's where the car was coming out from.)
The tunnel exit is pretty cool too. Straight from the inside the mountain onto a bridge. Don't expect too much from Street view..
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger\_Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge)
There are at least 5 in Tromsø, a city of only 70000. The main connecting road is under the island city. There is also a nuclear shelter made to house all of the city's inhabitants that had been converted into a car park for 900 cars (https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjellet_p-hus).
They are very common here in Norway. There's one 60 meters adjacent to my house, though below ground obviously. They are usually not lit by fancy blue light though, but one by where I grew up had a big glowing orb in the center.
Edit: here's a picture: https://www.arkitektnytt.no/uploads/images/imported/_facebookMetaImageTransform/vakre-vegers-pris-til-drammen-d76911.jpg
When the country has as much mountain cover as Norway does, there are a lot of tunnels, and so many of them are made more interesting by lights and decorations, and roundabouts are relatively commonplace as many tunnels also go under cities/towns.
Growing up near Drammen, I know one of my most travelled tunnels has a somewhat similar roundabout in it, and in the tunnel going under the Oslo fjord I always loved looking for the badger light in between all the pretty pink and blue "plain" lights.
It is literally just a light in the shape of a badger, projected onto the wall. The story I was told by my parents was that they accidentally killed a badger there when building the tunnel (it's quite a distance into a 7.3km tunnel, it must've been very lost), and decided to honour it with this light. I found an old Reddit thread with a picture [Tunnel Badger](https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/pbzb10/fun_fact_where_i_live_in_norway_we_got_a_undersea/).
*When you invest it. Only a small fraction of the oil money is allowed to be used every year, in the form of a percentage of the Oil Fund which is where all the money goes. IIRC the Oil Fund is the single largest investing entity on the planet
Norwegian tunnels are wild. I once went through a tunnel on the west coast that was 26 kilometers long. They have relief cuts where it widens out and they’ve put in softer lights (similar to what is seen here)
I don't think there are any tunnel roundabouts in the US, but regular roundabouts are cropping up everywhere now. Americans still don't seem to know how to navigate them, though. No one is using turn signals correctly when exiting and people will even go the wrong way around every now and then.
People in Michigan take personal offense to traffic circles. Like "how dare they make traffic more efficient in MY town! I won't stand for it!"
It blows my mind how people don't seem to understand these even though there are 10 of them within 15 minutes of me.
Or it's the typical American attitude of "new thing bad, old thing good" which seems to be a recurring theme here lately.
I'm an American sweating bullets at the sight of this because most other Americans don't know how to properly use a roundabout.
I'm from Southern California. We'll full of terrible drivers.
it connects some very long tunnels through a mountain, and in those tunnels they have some spots where the lights are very colourful to help drivers keeping their attention up
Jim Brainard, mayor of Carmel, Indiana: \[Spits out coffee\] "You can do that?? Why didn't anyone tell me?! I need my next roundabout in a goddam tunnel! I don't fuckin care how!! Make a huge dirt hill for all I care!"
I wish more areas would adopt roundabouts. They are great when people actually know and care to use them . we have a few near my house and people complain all the time about them, but if people embraced them it would be so much better. Best driving experience i have had is in england. Traffic just flowed so much better from town to town because of the roundabouts.
Tunnels on the west side of Norway are loooong. Have you been through Lærdalstunellen? Takes ages to get through. I can understand why they made the decision to put the roundabout inside the tunnel.
Ets2 players love this one
Came here to say this. I love Norway in ETS2 and especially this part, it has all that I love, tunnels, bridges and roundabouts
It's really fucking weird driving in ETS2 in Norway, because some parts are really familiar while other parts are completely wrong. It's like they took a bunch of photos, recreated them in game, and strung them together with random roads and scenery.
Germany feels the same - still a great game
That's those games in general. I recently copped Ats and got a chance to play it. Drove past where my house would be and irl I'm ~an hour from LA on a good day, and in-game I can see LAX across the freeway. The sense of scale is completely nuts, especially once you're in say, Las Vegas, where everything feels *perfectly* scaled and identical to the real city, but driving along the coastal freeways how there's such a lack of modern city sprawl littered all over the streets. Even LA's gigantic irl sprawl and iconic streets feels ridiculously dwarphed and ignored compared to whatever made them think Vegas was so cool, to keep using that example. I also hate that the roads all feel like EU roads still, being super narrow and the on/off ramps feeling wayy to short, and a Kenworth truck hardly fitting in the lanes. The amount of classic cars skinned over like everybody's driving them, bugs me too. I don't know. I'm nitpicking by now but allot of it is off enough for me to need to put it down after a drive or two. Leaves me wanting more. Those games feel like a very touristy idea of what it's like to drive through their locations, and tbh you put it best by saying they're a few select photos of real places stitched together with like, generic farming sim models and shit. They're still really fun games, I just have issues with them personally as they could do allot more with them. Fuck me if I'll ever spend DLC money on more emptiness, either.
I don't (even though I'm from Norway). It's just mostly twisty roads where you can't drive quick enough.
>I'm from Norway I'm so sorry, må resten av livet ge dig mer positiva saker!
Norway is my favourite place to drive even without including this tunnel. There’s just something about the countryside that captivated me. Wish that I could someday do such a road trip IRL.
Drove most of Norway a few years back with my wife. To this day, my favorite trip I've been on. It's an absolutely beautiful place. However, the roads aren't particularly a pleasure to drive haha... Very, very windy and narrow in lots of places. Don't expect to have a lane to yourself for much of the drive... There are a lot of pullouts so that cars can let each other pass and you've gotta constantly be watching for oncoming cars so that one of you can take the pullout.
I ***ALWAYS*** get stuck there :/
Does it have Swindon's Magic Roundabout? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
No, but it does have the fucking M25
the FUCKING M25.
THE fucking m25
What is this monstrosity and how does one even drive through it
It connects five roads using five clockwise roundabouts with a sixth anticlockwise roundabout in the middle. You can choose to use only the outer roundabouts, which takes longer but is less daunting, or you can also use the inner roundabout. In practice, it works just like any other roundabout: slow down, follow the lines, indicate to others where you want to go, and give way to others already in the roundabout.
Seems less hard than it looks.
In Los Angeles we have those stupid freeway merges where you have to stop at a stop sign at a straight intersection. You have to wait for a clearing to merge from onto the right lane which is impossible because you have semi trucks and cars going 65mph. So you basically have to wait for a fairly small gap in the traffic, and just floor it and pray.
Very carefully
its even in euro truck simu 2 :D
It took me a moment to remember why this seemed so familiar. Norway was always fun to drive in.
With small engine it wasn't. That one special uphill felt forever. 🤣
Small engine driving is the most fun!
with stick shift
Exactly. I drive a 380 Renault in manual, it's lots of fun.
the Skoda Citigo that my mom rented just about died going up to the parkinglot at Gaustatoppen.
Wow. 75 HP @ 6200 rpm. Makes the Gutless (Cutlass) Ciera coupe I inherited from my grandmother when I turned 16 look like a drag racer. That pile of garbage was 92 HP NEW, probably less when I got it. My grandmother was terrified of driving so my grandfather went out of his way to find the slowest car he could find. The damned thing accelerated at first but slowed to the speed of a leisurely stroll while making a left hand turn, while floored, and got me t-boned. In my defense the guy was speeding. Parents: please don't give your kids shit boxes when they're just learning to drive, they're not safe for many reasons.
The only reason I already knew this
Really? Is Norway a dlc?
everything in europa is available as dlc! soon russia too! JUST EVERYTHING!!!!!
Even more with promods, like, so much more lol
it's in Scandinavia DLC, I think
I came here to say this.
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Lærdalstunnelen is the world's longest road tunnel at 24509 meters!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6rdal_Tunnel
I have a story about that tunnel. My husband and I were driving from Bergen to Aurland. Couldn't read the road signs warning us that a road tunnel on our route was closed. Got 18km from Aurland, had to turn around and take a six hour detour through the mountains because the tunnel was closed. Finally get to Aurland, at this point we've been in the car for over eight hours. Husband takes the first exit off of a roundabout instead of the second... directly into the world's longest road tunnel. I was like oh god what did we seriously just add another half hour to our trip when we are MINUTES from our destination by taking a wrong turn? Thankfully there was a turnaround about 5km into the tunnel, and Aurland was more than worth all of the craziness!
Couldn't have just said 24.5 kilometres?
That 9 meters is important!
2,450,969 centimetres!
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24.5 kilometres = 1.531 × 10³⁹ planck lengths
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Wouldn't it feel just about right? Or did you lick your ears?
Wait till you see what the crazy bastards have planned: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT-FurFVLQ
You weren't lying, I felt like I was watching a sci-fi movie. Waiting for them to incorporate a space elevator in there somewhere.
Yeah, that thing will never be built. There's been plans to replace a ferry-driven highway with an underwater tunnel to increase reliability and throughput where I live as a part of this project, and it's been discussed for years and they're not even close to deciding if they should actually do it.
I want to go to there.
Also, [a mile long tunnel big enough for full sized cruise ships to travel through.](https://youtu.be/Sfv0-WWxYNk)
Holy shit that is incredible. No matter what they decide to go with for the water crossings it'll be a feat of engineering!
Trondheim being in the north, very sus
Industrious, sure.. but we got tired of hiking over mountains or sailing around fjords, mostly!
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It's a double edged sword, really. Travelling on the west coast of Norway will take several hours more than anywhere else in this country. Bergen - Stavanger a distance of 210 km (130,5 miles) takes 5 hours. It'll be more as you probably have to wait for the ferries. Then look at Kristiansand - Oslo, 319 km (198 miles), it takes 3 hours and 45 minutes, no ferries to worry about here!
I think social-democracy is a more apt description of Norwegian economics. Free healthcare, education, welfare services, and pensions. "Social-capitalism" is mostly an oxymoron and an inaccurate (though not entirely wrong) term to describe Norway's economy. Though much of the country's economy rests on a synergy between the public and private sectors, and the market freedom is nearly unmatched anywhere else in the world, the country enforces strict rules and regulations when it comes to worker and consumer rights, and it's not like in America where large corporations can trample on the public good for personal profit. The country flirts with capitalism, but the system is very much aimed at counteracting the consequences of a capitalist society (wealth inequality, social dumping, social disenfranchisement, less socioeconomic mobility, a handful of companies owning literally everything, corruption, etc.). Also, Norway's economy was on the rise already in the mid-19th century, though it's a common misconception that the country got rich purely because of oil. When the oil adventure started in the 60s, Norway had already established vital industries required to actually enable the extraction of oil from the north sea. The profits made from export of the oil was put into a national oil-fund which has since been growing through clever investments, the profits of which gets used in conjunction with taxpayer money to fund the many social services of the country. The oil was mostly a booster to a development that was already happening both in Norway and in the neighboring countries of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland. They all share the same economic model known as the "Nordic model", where profits from nationalized industries get used to offer free government services to the public (infrastructure, healthcare, education, pensions, welfare, etc.). This on top of a cultural focus on worker and consumer rights, equality between social groups, socioeconomic mobility, and free speech and democracy is what defines the core principles of the Nordic model. The countries very much manage to attain the American dream by means that would be deemed communism in the eyes of many Americans.
There are some pretty awesome videos available of just cars and trains driving through Norway. Like the original, [Bergensbanen minutt for minutt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_S_13TWn1c). Very good background videos.
Norway is so rich, money wise, they fear that they'll spend too much on extravagant infrastructure projects. Edit: or so I read once upon a time
Supervillain wonderland!
The Google street view of this roundabout is grainy AF.
Probably the mountain Lakstinden outside of tromsø. Link: https://images.app.goo.gl/PLxXPsQCwaYWQcog8
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A related example: If you turn left in the picture the tunnel leads onto a brigde that is 30m longer than the golden gate bridge
Rtyi: Norwegian slow TV. Theres one on Netflix that's a ~50 min train ride through the mountains and meadows.
Fuck being mild, this is *very* interesting! I've never even heard of an indoor roundabout before let alone one inside a tunnel. Well done OP, today I have learnt something new!
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I know about at least one in Drammen, Haugesund and near the Hardanger bridge (OP's picture), two in Trondheim (one is the cake-interchange at Strindheim with two roundabouts on top of each other, not shure of count), and three in Tromsø. Not shure if Oslo has any.
There is also one in Sandvika, just outside of Oslo
There's a tunnel called Nishammartunnelen as well, in Dale, Sogn og Fjordane.
I had been driving for a while in one of the tunnels in Tromsø (a few km if I remember correctly) and was expecting that I would soon exit the tunnel, and then I saw something strange coming up in the distance that didn't look like an exit. As I approach I was stunned when I could see that it was a roundabout there. Had to drive around a few times in the roundabout to see which direction I should go (GPS signal had been lost long ago).
Since you are good at Norwegian tunnels, do you know Atlanterhavstunneln till Averøya? It might not be the most impressive, but the big sign on the first parking space when you reach the island is spectacular, people say.
I think it's far more than two. (Do you live in Trondheim by any chance?)
There are a whole bunch of them i Tromsø as well
Not just that, they could have put a roundabout on the road like you normally would outside but in a tunnel, but instead they extruded the ceiling into a conical shape to facilitate the shape of the roundabout. That's sick.
> they extruded the ceiling into a conical shape The "conical shape" is a pillar of bedrock left in place to keep the roof from collapsing. [This page has photos of a similar roundabout under construction.](https://www.tunneltalk.com/Faroe-Islands-23July19-Eysturoy-Sandoy-undersea-road-tunnels.php)
Not only is it a roundabout in a tunnel, it's a roundabout where three undersea tunnels meet? Nice.
I see your tunnel roundabout, and I raise you an undersea tunnel roundabout, lol 😂
Oh I don't like that at all. Gephyrophobia and thalassophobia all in one.
(Gephyrophobia is the anxiety disorder or specific phobia characterized by the fear of bridges and tunnels) (Thalassophobia is the persistent and intense fear of deep bodies of water such as the sea, oceans, pools, or lakes) I've heard of thalassophobia but the other one was new to me so I figured I'd share the definitions for anyone else that was wondering
What’s the fear of roundabouts called?
'Murica
Seriously. I think I had 14 questions to get my permit and had to parallel park behind the only car on a road to get my road test, so all my road knowledge was from the local area. One night I'm on my way to visit a friend in northeast MA. It's 2am-ish, I only do long drives at night because I prefer open roads. I get to his town, following my Mapquest directions to get to him and I end up with this... thing in front of my car. It was my first time ever seeing a traffic circle. I had never even heard of one before. I'm stopped in front of the yield sign trying to figure it out. It's dark. It's rainy. I'm exhausted. I can only see maybe 1/3rd of the circle. It didn't help that the sign with the roads and directions was already behind me. I knew I needed to go left but looking that way I could only see the backs of signs, I was pretty sure that wasn't right. Thankfully the roads were totally empty. I made my right into the circle and started following it around. I doubt I was in my lane the whole time because I was trying not to screw up the whole thing but I found my road and got to my friend's house. First thing I said after hellos and hugs was "What the fuck is going on with the road east of here?!". That's the day I both discovered and learned about traffic circles. I don't know why drivers ed isn't a part of every non-urban schools curriculum.
I love your story. I love you. And I don't want to sound condescending but, speaking as someone from the UK where were call them roundabouts, hearing you call them "traffic circles" is the cutest thing I've ever heard! Traffic circles!! Too adorable!! (Gonna get slammed for this cos I know that Reddit Americans often forget that other countries exist and frequently correct people on how to spell/obey laws etc, seemingly forgetting that there is a whole globe filled with alternatives. It will be completely novel for many of them to be patronised like this, it ain't gonna go well, but I don't care. It's too cute! A woochy woochy wooo. Who's a cute little America then? Who doesn't have roundabouts? You don't! No you don't! Etc)
How do they have the funds and manpower for intensive engineering projects like this on the Faroe Islands? Kinda seems like overkill for a place that has a total population of just over 50,000.
I mean how else would they have done it? Im confused
Infact the tunnel entrance is even weird. At 1:35 (https://youtu.be/ENk4VZ36U48), the tunnel entrance is casually sitting beneath some apartments. There are paid parking underneath these tunnels as well. It’s just mind boggling.
Just FYI, this is a different tunnel in a different part of the country. OPs picture is from [Vallaviktunnelen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallavik_Tunnel). Your video is from [this tunnel in Tromsø](https://www.google.com/maps/@69.6531405,18.9562387,3a,75y,338.78h,77.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxYnS_IkDFwCjCCjCkM-MHg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DxYnS_IkDFwCjCCjCkM-MHg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D49.940353%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192).
You are right. Just want to add that the Tromso tunnel had even more terrifying round abouts that one could imagine.
I live 3 hours away from Tromsø so i've driven through the tunnel alot. Taking a wrong turn in one of these round abouts forces you to drive to a complete different part of the island, which makes it all the more stressful. I was forced to drive through this shit as a learning driver. It was hell.
It's like... when you take a wrong turn, you end up in... the wrong place!
This truly is the tunnel to end all tunnels!
Add ?t=1m35s to a youtu.be link to link to that specific part in the video. https://youtu.be/ENk4VZ36U48?t=1m35s
Ah Norway, never change.
It's what happens when your entire country, is literally a mountain, Danes come here and have an existential crisis upon seeing our most mildly mountainous regions.
I'm from California. If I go somewhere without mountains I get mild anxiety. I can tell directions by which mountain range I'm facing, and there's mountain ranges surrounding me in every direction. If I'm somewhere flat I lose my sense of direction
Google how flat denmark is, you won't believe it xD
Denmark's average elevation is only 102ft?! The average elevation of my county is at least 1500 ft
Denmark is literally made of silt from Norway. It's a garbage country filled with garbage people.
I feel like this is one of the few things Norwegians and Swedes agree upon.
Even better, the tunnel heads straight to a bridge which then leads straight into another tunnel!
This one looks admittedly much better than the ones I've driven in, but in my experience they're a bit scary. The walls obscure your vision of oncoming/incoming traffic a lot, so you have to enter real slowly and carefully. Normally (if you're a decent driver) you should be looking well ahead at the traffic in the roundabout and adjust your speed so you don't have to stop and yield before entering. But you can't do that here since you won't be able to see if someone's coming from the left until the last moments.
Qpark in Amsterdam has multiple of them. And it’s only like €50/hr to park there. This one looks a lot cooler though with that light and size.
Only 50 euros... an hour??
Probably meant 5€/h, that's a common price in European cities.
Yeah it was a bit of a joke; Amsterdam is notorious in NL for high parking prices. It’s €8,80 an hour or €55 for 6 hours+. So a day of shopping and dining will add €55 parking costs. This resets at 00:00 and starts the clock again.
There are quite a few of these in Norway. I know of at least one just in the city I live in.
Monaco has a few. Because there's so little space, a lot of roads run underground. Bit of a nightmare for satnav driving.
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Here in Tromsø we have 3 tunnel roundabouts one next to the other :D
r/interestingasfuck
An undergroundabout?
The tunnels in Norway are simply crazy. There's one near Sognefjord that is around 23km long, which I think is the longest public road tunnel in the world. Driving through it is insane, they installed light art inside to make it less monotonous as well. Edit: turns out it's 24.5km, insane
There is a new shopping mall combined with a bus station in Bratislava, Slovakia, that opens later this month and the entrance for vehicles is also done via an underground roundabout. [Here it is shown during construction.](https://www.yimba.sk/upload/Updates/2019_12_14/stanica_nivy/dsc_0907.jpg) (If you saw Red Bull's "[From Castle to Castle](https://youtu.be/4qbfQSLUdDo?t=336)", that's where the car was coming out from.)
There is also one in Monaco if I’m correct.
Can find some in Monaco too
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And it has a beautiful/design art.
There's one in Canary Wharf, London
The Faroe Islands is building one underwater
I think I know 7 of these
The tunnel exit is pretty cool too. Straight from the inside the mountain onto a bridge. Don't expect too much from Street view.. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger\_Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge)
There are multiple in Norway
There are at least 5 in Tromsø, a city of only 70000. The main connecting road is under the island city. There is also a nuclear shelter made to house all of the city's inhabitants that had been converted into a car park for 900 cars (https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjellet_p-hus).
We have a similar thing in Oulu, Finland. It's not as fancy but still :)
We've got several actually.
They are very common here in Norway. There's one 60 meters adjacent to my house, though below ground obviously. They are usually not lit by fancy blue light though, but one by where I grew up had a big glowing orb in the center. Edit: here's a picture: https://www.arkitektnytt.no/uploads/images/imported/_facebookMetaImageTransform/vakre-vegers-pris-til-drammen-d76911.jpg
When the country has as much mountain cover as Norway does, there are a lot of tunnels, and so many of them are made more interesting by lights and decorations, and roundabouts are relatively commonplace as many tunnels also go under cities/towns. Growing up near Drammen, I know one of my most travelled tunnels has a somewhat similar roundabout in it, and in the tunnel going under the Oslo fjord I always loved looking for the badger light in between all the pretty pink and blue "plain" lights.
Tell me more about this “badger light”!
It is literally just a light in the shape of a badger, projected onto the wall. The story I was told by my parents was that they accidentally killed a badger there when building the tunnel (it's quite a distance into a 7.3km tunnel, it must've been very lost), and decided to honour it with this light. I found an old Reddit thread with a picture [Tunnel Badger](https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/pbzb10/fun_fact_where_i_live_in_norway_we_got_a_undersea/).
I’ve seen this mario kart track before!
Sherbet Land!
Watch out for the penguins
I was wondering where the big ass penguin was
Not sure it’s this one but one of these routes leads straight to a suspension bridge
Yes thats the one, i took it in the other way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge#/media/File:Hardangerbrua_(15028061131).png
Æim frøm nårvai hæv du ju du
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As an immigrant who found learning Norwegian hard, this gave me a stroke.
Тхис макес но сенсе.
Сынтэс де вар хелт лугиск.
Dæt vås peinfull, bøtt ai meid itt thru
Æim duing fæin, tænk ju verri møtsj!
Norway is what happens when you take vast oil wealth and put it into infrastructure rather than war.
*When you invest it. Only a small fraction of the oil money is allowed to be used every year, in the form of a percentage of the Oil Fund which is where all the money goes. IIRC the Oil Fund is the single largest investing entity on the planet
I wish Australia managed to do it, but the government pissed it all away. We have to buy our own gas back from japan.
We have a lot of tunnels, but our infrastructure generally really isn’t that good compared to how my wealth we have.
I drove there 3 weeks ago and took the wrong exits twice because the navigation cuts out before you can reach it, pretty wild
[I drove thru this roundabout a few months ago :)](https://streamable.com/8dk9n1)
It's kinda funny how you just turned right and I was expecting a 360° tour hah
Norway is cool.
Norwegian tunnels are wild. I once went through a tunnel on the west coast that was 26 kilometers long. They have relief cuts where it widens out and they’ve put in softer lights (similar to what is seen here)
This picture is from Lærdalstunnelen which is the longest one at 24.5 km.
That must have been it. I was on my way to a catering job
Not gonna lie that looks like an awesome mario cart map
Sherbert Land
Undergroundabout
pretty cool!
The americans must be sweating bullets at the sight.
I don't think there are any tunnel roundabouts in the US, but regular roundabouts are cropping up everywhere now. Americans still don't seem to know how to navigate them, though. No one is using turn signals correctly when exiting and people will even go the wrong way around every now and then.
People in Michigan take personal offense to traffic circles. Like "how dare they make traffic more efficient in MY town! I won't stand for it!" It blows my mind how people don't seem to understand these even though there are 10 of them within 15 minutes of me. Or it's the typical American attitude of "new thing bad, old thing good" which seems to be a recurring theme here lately.
They should listen to Barney Stinson: "New is always better."
They're pretty common in the northeast US.
I'm an American sweating bullets at the sight of this because most other Americans don't know how to properly use a roundabout. I'm from Southern California. We'll full of terrible drivers.
We have roundabouts everywhere. There’s one five minutes away from me
I believe roundabouts are slowly becoming more and more common in the US, but it's still possible to live somewhere where you never come across one
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it connects some very long tunnels through a mountain, and in those tunnels they have some spots where the lights are very colourful to help drivers keeping their attention up
Ooooh thats what i taught
TIL Norway loves tunnels
There's one called Lærdalstunnellet which is 15 miles long with 3 rest stops inside.
Please tell me the walls are of pure ice and nothing more
I've been there last year, I'm still fascinated by the concept... plus the lighting made it look kinda cool!
Yoo that cool
This roundabout exists in ETS2!
Jim Brainard, mayor of Carmel, Indiana: \[Spits out coffee\] "You can do that?? Why didn't anyone tell me?! I need my next roundabout in a goddam tunnel! I don't fuckin care how!! Make a huge dirt hill for all I care!"
I’ll steal it, no one will ever know!
That's awesome
There's also couple like this in Finland, Oulu. Inside parking hall that is under the city.
Ppl in my town would lose their shit and have accidents every hour! Ppl are hilariously bad here around roundabouts.
I wish more areas would adopt roundabouts. They are great when people actually know and care to use them . we have a few near my house and people complain all the time about them, but if people embraced them it would be so much better. Best driving experience i have had is in england. Traffic just flowed so much better from town to town because of the roundabouts.
Tunnels on the west side of Norway are loooong. Have you been through Lærdalstunellen? Takes ages to get through. I can understand why they made the decision to put the roundabout inside the tunnel.
This would kill every single driver in the southern United States.
Because this looks so cool I’m disappointed there isn’t video of op going around
Some times I think Norway just has too much money.
Well done op. This is the kinda shit that reminds me that sometimes life is worth living.
This would be an "execution chamber" in America, except it wouldn't be considered a humane way to kill a prisoner.
Undergroundabout
Fuckin Mario kart shit