Österleden is a planned motorway in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

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. The road is intended to on the east side of the Stockholm City Centre

Stockholm City Centre

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 bind together the Norra länken

Norra länken

Norra länken is a motorway in Stockholm, Sweden, between Norrtull and Karlberg, where it connects to Essingeleden. The road is part of European route E4 and E20 and the incomplete Stockholm ring road....

 and Södra länken

Södra länken

Södra länken , National road 75 , is a motorway in Sweden connecting Essingeleden , Stockholm with Värmdöleden , Nacka. Södra länken is 6 km in length, of which 4.7 km is in tunnels. This makes it the second longest urban motorway tunnel in Europe after Madrid M30 orbital motorway...

 motorways to create a completed Stockholm ring road

Stockholm ring road

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.

As of 2007 the road project has undergone a feasibility study

Feasibility study

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, and is awaiting feedback from the County Administrative Board

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 of Stockholm.

In January 2008 Kristina Axén Olin

Kristina Axén Olin

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, the Mayor of Stockholm, said that the political majority in Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality

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 was in favor of constructing the road, but according to the plan with the Swedish Road Administration

Swedish Road Administration

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 the construction start would not occur until 2020 and completion in 2030.

History

Plans on a road connection using a bridge east of the city centre were part of the early regional plans, and city general plans in 1928 and 1960.

A motorway in a tunnel east of the city centre was one of the road projects of the Dennis Agreement from 1992, a political agreement for road construction in the Stockholm area. Österleden was to be the eastern part of a ring road around central Stockholm. The planning of the road was cancelled in 1997 when the agreement was broken.

A new feasibility study was finished in 2006, and is as of 2007 awaiting feedback from the County Administrative Board.

Studied alignments

The feasibility study contains three suggested alignments of the road:

• Alternative C
  • New tunnel beneath the Stockholm City Centre
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     west of Southern Djurgården
  • Estimated cost: 12–15 billion
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     SEK
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• Alternative D
  • New tunnel with approximately the same alignment as in the early 1990s plans, beneath Saltsjön and Djurgården
  • Estimated cost: 9–12 billion SEK
• Alternative F
  • New tunnel between Nacka
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     and Lidingö
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  • Estimated cost: 10–15 billion SEK