Work begins on Dalur tunnel next month

Road and tunnel authority Landsverk can start work on the Húsavík-Dalur tunnel in May.

Yvirfriðingarnevndin (the National Trust) has given the green light, but it insists that the conditions placed by the local conservation authority in Sandoy still apply.

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These conditions include finding a new location for the soil depository, which was originally planned for Húsavík, and that building materials can only be placed along the Húsavík-Dalur road at the discretion of the conservation authorities.

The National Trust also demands that the project must be planned in such a way that a lane passing from Dalur to the tunnel entrance at the Dalur side is disturbed as little as possible.

Translated by prosa.fo