Sommarøy Bridge
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Sommarøy Bridge is a cantilever bridge
from Kvaløya to Sommarøy
in the Hillesøy
area of the western part of the municipality of Tromsø
in Troms
county, Norway
. The bridge is 522 metres (1,712.6 ft) long and the longest span on the bridge is 120 metres (393.7 ft).
Sommarøy Bridge has traffic light
s to prevent accidents on the narrow bridge. It has been reported that the traffic lights malfunction in windy weather.
Cantilever bridge
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams; however, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from...
from Kvaløya to Sommarøy
Sommarøy
Sommarøy is a populated island in the western part of the municipality of Tromsø, in Troms county, Norway, about west of the city of Tromsø. The island is connected to Kvaløya island with the Sommarøy Bridge. The village of Sommarøy covers the island as well as the neighboring island of Hillesøy...
in the Hillesøy
Hillesøy
Hillesøy is a former municipality in Troms county in Norway. It is located in the present-day municipalities of Tromsø and Lenvik and both sides of the Malangen fjord...
area of the western part of the municipality of Tromsø
Tromsø
Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...
in Troms
Troms
or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...
county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. The bridge is 522 metres (1,712.6 ft) long and the longest span on the bridge is 120 metres (393.7 ft).
Sommarøy Bridge has traffic light
Traffic light
Traffic lights, which may also be known as stoplights, traffic lamps, traffic signals, signal lights, robots or semaphore, are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations to control competing flows of traffic...
s to prevent accidents on the narrow bridge. It has been reported that the traffic lights malfunction in windy weather.