Osteroy Bridge

Osteroy Bridge connects Kvisti in Osteroy municipality (Hordaland county) with the mainland at Herland east from Bergen, Norway. 

Osteroy Bridge

Type                             Suspension bridge

Total length                 1065 metres

Longest span                595 metres

Vertical clearance        53 metres

Opening date               October 3, 1997 

Osteroy Bridge is a suspension bridge and has a main span of 595 meter. The towers are 121.5 meters high. The bridge was completed October 3, 1997 and cost about 308 million Norwegian kroner. The bridge is the third largest suspension bridge in Norway. 

It was put into service 28 years after the first plans for a connection between Osteroy and Bergen were prepared. It was opened for traffic by Norwegian Minister of Transport and Communications Sissel Ronbeck. The experts indicate that the bridge should be capable of surviving an extreme storm. The bridge is tuned so that its greatest oscillation occurs when the wind is about 10 m/s (i.e., a light breeze).