Six-year Rotterdam underwater motorway completed

The Vlaardingen, north side approach to the tunnel (Ballast Nedam)

A six-year construction project to connect roads on both sides of a river near the Port of Rotterdam has finally been opened to traffic.

The Blankenburg Connection (Blankenburgverbinding) now links Vlaardingen on one bank with Rozenburg on the other in a new traffic arrangement that will ease the congestion around Europe’s largest sea port.

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