Trollstigen will likely be closed for a number of days – new evaluation Thursday
One in all Norway’s prime vacationer sights, the Trollstigen in Møre og Romsdal, will likely be closed at the least till Thursday after a rock hit a automotive on Monday morning.
– The Trollstigen will likely be closed in any case till Thursday at 1pm Then we’ll make a brand new evaluation, says Brynjulv Eide, head of street operations within the county municipality of Møre and Romsdal, to NTB.
Each summer time, vacationers from all around the world come to Trollstigen, however this 12 months the street didn’t open till Friday 7 June. The danger of a rock fall was exactly the explanation for suspending the opening.
The rockfall scenario in Trollstigen has turn out to be extra unpredictable in recent times. Primarily based on this, and that there have been particular circumstances this 12 months with lots of ice within the Kjelstad line, the county council has made a complete danger evaluation, Møre and Romsdal county council wrote in a press launch earlier than the opening.
Earlier than the opening, 4 measures had been launched within the Kjelstad line and 7 common measures within the Trollstigen. The aim of those is to forestall queues from forming in probably the most uncovered areas. On the identical time, a brand new closure process might lead to extra frequent closures because of or danger of rock falls.
The rock that got here down the mountainside on Monday morning went straight by means of the passenger facet window of a Videkke contractor automotive. The worker was within the automotive driving the Trollstigen to verify the circumstances when this occurred on the Kjelstad line.
– Coming from above
– That is in regards to the center of the Trollstigen on the a part of the street the place the terrain on the within of the street is, so to talk, vertical. Right here it comes from above, I stored saying.
The Kjelstad line is the a part of the Trollstigen the place the chance of rock slides is taken into account to be the best.
– We attempt to do what we are able to to cut back the chance, however the mountain desires in another way than us, there’s lots of free rock within the space, says Eide.
Every week in the past, the county council of Møre and Romdal requested an pressing assembly with the transport minister Jon-Ivar Nygård (April) to get clarification on how a lot the state might help safe the Trollstigen.
No cash for safety measures
The county council says they don’t have the cash to hold out the required safety measures and have requested an pressing assembly with transport minister and business minister Cecilie Myrseth (Aib), who wrote NRC.
– We noticed the necessity for a correct evaluate of the Trollstigen scenario and the protection of street customers to have the ability to open the street, county street supervisor Ole Jan Tønnesen mentioned in a press launch on Thursday.
Møre and Romsdal county council are at present engaged on a preliminary mission for rock safety in Trollstigen. The report is because of be accomplished in autumn 2024.