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1974-1980 – Economical Ruin

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VG 15.01.1954

VG, fredag 7. februar 1975

“Central garage by the City Hall urgently needed: Two new commercial buildings in Vika reviewed”

For a period, Haakon VIIs gate 7 figured asHaakon VIIs gate 4, as shown in this article.

Verdens gang 17.03.1958

Oslo municipality wants to dig quickly - expensively. It is about Smestadkrysset. Three new proposals have been put forward, all of which are claimed to save the municipality millions.
- We don't have time to wait, the regulatory treatment of the proposals will take five years, says the technical councillor.
- We have a number of other national highway projects underway. A postponement of the work at the Smestad junction will mean that the capital calculated for work here will have to be transferred to these other projects.
We cannot sit on this money. This means that work on the Smestad crossing cannot begin until the end of the 1980s, says the technical council
husband Ulrik Fredrik Beich-
man.
New proposals
The background for the statement is a report from Oslo municipality on the plans for the Greater Ring Road with Smestad Crossing, which has been handed over to the finance committee for assessment.
In the note, the Technical Councilor and the Communications Councilor explain the new proposals for regulation.
They conclude in their report that they cannot give a satisfactory assessment of the new proposals until they have been thoroughly investigated. The investigation will take from two to five years.

The zoning plan adopted by the city council is estimated to cost NOK 148 million. The tunnel that will carry the Store Ringvei under the Smestad junction is estimated to cost NOK 80 million alone.
The tunnel will be 500 meters long, and will be laid so deep that it will also go under the Røabanen. Sørkedalsveien will cross local traffic at a light-regulated intersection where Smestadkrys is located today, but will be expanded to four continuous lanes.

The three new proposals that have come in from Olav Selvaag. Alf Ihlen and Håvard Hogna, are all claimed to be much more affordable. But we don't know anything about this until they have been thoroughly investigated, says Beichmann.
What we do know, however, is that the approved regulatory plan is very environmentally friendly. This solution was chosen mainly based on environmental considerations, and less based on cost considerations.
According to Beichmann, it will be possible to get started with the actual digging of the tunnel as early as 3/4 years from now if the elected authorities did not demand that the new plans be investigated.
Will it take another 10 years before work on the Smestad Crossing gets underway?

new proposals instead of the tunnel denied

More peace of mind for the residents and safer Smestad junction:

Store Ringvei from the top to the bottom of the picture-disappears under the ground as a thoroughfare in the early 1980s. In 1979, Oslo Veivesen expects to start major construction works, which will solve the problems both for residents along this heavily trafficked and narrow main road and for 35,000-40,000 daily road users. two floors underground, both under the current road junction with Sørkedalsveien (from left to right in the picture) and under the tram line that you see runs parallel to Sørkedalsveien. The Smestad crossing (middle of the picture) is today one of Oslo's most difficult, with kilometer-long queues during rush hour. Both through traffic in the direction of Drammen - Hamar (E-6 and E-18) as well as local traffic to and from Oslo centre-Roa- Holmenkollen etc. pass here.


 In the early 1980s, motorists on Store Ringvei in Oslo had to drive in a tunnel under the current Smestad intersection. The work to rebuild the heavily trafficked road junction and 2.4 kilometers of Store Ringvei will start in 1979.
This will be a problematic road system. We have to rebuild Smestadkrysset and Store Ringvei while the traffic is at full capacity. We have no alternative roads on which the large number of vehicles can be diverted, says planning manager Bernhard Sæland in Oslo Veivesen.
But he assures that when the facility is completed in the early 1980s, the result will be beneficial both for residents along the heavily trafficked stretch of road and for road users themselves. Both pedestrians and drivers will travel safer. Traffic will be diverted faster and more effectively, especially during rush hour, where there are currently long queues both on Sørkedalsveien and on Store Ringvei at Smestadkrysset.
More peaceful residents along the 480-metre new tunnel will find it more peaceful, because the traffic is routed underground. But during the construction period, the road authority has to "borrow" a bit from many villa gardens in order to get enough excavated along the tunnel route. In those years, quite a few residents probably had greater disadvantages, more noise and dust than they have today. But when it's all fair-
you, they can enjoy safer and calmer conditions...
Double price
The Smestad junction and the 2.4 kilometer long four-lane Store Ringvei that is being built will cost approx. NOK 170 million, according to preliminary calculations.
It was the tunnel that made it more expensive
A 480-metre-long tunnel will be built to lower the Store Ringvei "two floors" below ground. The tunnel will carry traffic both under the current intersection with Sørkedalsveien and under the tram lines to Østerås and Kolsås. The tram already runs under the current intersection.
this road project to become one of the most expensive in Oslo.
- It is at least twice as expensive to build a tunnel as it is to build a road. In this case, we calculate NOK 55,000 per running meters of road, and NOK 120,000 per meter tunnel, says planning manager Sæland. He says that just retaining walls along parts of the road add up to approx. 12.6 million.
NOK.
There will be several two-level intersections along the new section of the Store Ringvei from Gaustad to the Smestad intersection. Currently, there are four two-level crossings, which will clearly lead to better traffic safety.
Certain roads are closed for exits on the Store Ringvei. Holmenveien, Dalsveien, Jon Smestads vei and Montebelloveien. and the Smestad junction itself is planned as a two-level junction.
In time, it is intended that the entire Store Ringvei will have a two-level intersection, from Manglerud in the east to Vækerøveien in the west, says planning manager Bernhard Sæland - who does not dare to say anything definite about when this can be completed.

Verdens Gang (VG)