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{{Short description|Underground highway in Stockholm, Sweden}}
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|type=Riksvag
|route=75
|alternate_name={{lang|sv|Södra länken}}<br>The southern link
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|map_notes=Södra Länken, [[Vägverket]]s map
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[[Image:Sodra lanken vv 3.jpg|thumb|Exit ''Nynäsvägen'' to west]]

'''Södra länken''' ({{lit|the Southern Link}}), designated as '''national road 75''' ({{langx|sv|Riksväg 75}}), is a motorway in Sweden connecting [[Essingeleden]] ([[European route E4|E4]], [[European route E20|E20]]), [[Stockholm]] with [[Värmdöleden]] (county road 222), [[Nacka]]. Södra länken is {{convert|6|km|abbr=on}} in length, of which {{convert|4.5|km|abbr=on}} is in tunnels.<ref name=vagvarket>{{Cite web |url=https://trafikverket.ineko.se/Files/sv-SE/10525/RelatedFiles/88459_Sodra_lanken_en_ny_trafikled_i_stockholm.pdf |title=Södra Länken – en ny trafikled i Stockholm |publisher=[[Swedish Road Administration]] (Vägverket) |pages=4–5 |language=Swedish |format=PDF |access-date=9 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010054624/https://trafikverket.ineko.se/Files/sv-SE/10525/RelatedFiles/88459_Sodra_lanken_en_ny_trafikled_i_stockholm.pdf |archive-date=10 October 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> This makes it the third longest urban motorway tunnel in Europe after [[Autopista de Circunvalación M-30|Madrid M30 orbital motorway]] and [[Blanka tunnel complex]] in Prague at {{convert|5.5|km|abbr=on}}. The tunnel is 4 lanes wide each way at its widest point (total 8 lanes).

The construction of Södra länken began in 1997, and it was inaugurated on 24 October 2004.<ref name=vagvarket/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nyteknik.se/digitalisering/sodra-lanken-enkelriktat-i-langsta-tunneln-6403893 |title=Södra länken: Enkelriktat i längsta tunneln |last=Pröckl |first=Eddie |date=22 October 2004 |work=[[Ny Teknik]] |access-date=9 October 2017 |language=Swedish}}</ref> The total cost was about 7.9&nbsp;billion [[Swedish krona|SEK]] (around 800–900&nbsp;million [[United States Dollar|USD]] at the 2003–2004 exchange rate).<ref>Vägverket, p. 37.</ref> The link was built primarily to decrease traffic in the centre of Stockholm. Given the high construction costs and the possibility that overall traffic volumes might increase, it was one of the greatest subjects of debate during the 1990s and early 2000s in the Swedish capital. It was financed mainly with governmental money and is not a toll road. The reason for building it in a tunnel almost all the way is a law from the 1990s which more or less forbids construction of a new motorway (or similar road) near residential areas inside cities, for noise and pollution reasons.

Södra länken is the southern section of the planned [[Stockholm Ring Road]].

==See also==
*[[Stockholm congestion tax]]

==References==
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== External links ==
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-QJLOVLg7M Flying under Stockholm] &mdash; A YouTube user called 'henke2' flew an electric [[model aircraft]] through the tunnel

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[[Category:Motorways in Sweden]]
[[Category:Road tunnels in Sweden]]
[[Category:Transport in Stockholm]]
[[Category:Tunnels completed in 2004]]
[[Category:2004 establishments in Sweden]]
[[Category:21st-century establishments in Stockholm]]


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