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Newsletter the Follo Line Project Newsletter The Follo Line Project What is happening-when and where? In 2018 the first deliveries from the Follo Line Project will be completed. Bane NOR would like to thank all neighbours for their patience and coopiration during the construction • Work in 2018 period – we wish everyone a Merry Christmas! • Important dates • Where are the TBM now? Summer/early autumn of 2018, the first of the Follo Line-route about the construction • Contactinformation four tunnel boring machines will break work that is taking place from five rig areas through the Ekeberg mountain in central between Ski and Oslo. We look forward to Oslo. At the same time the opening of the half the travel time between Oslo And Ski first part of the new Ski public transport hub when the Follo Line opens in December is getting nearer. In this newsletter, Bane 2021. NOR will inform the neighbours along Photo : Bane NOR The Follo Line Project | December 2017 New Ski public transport hub Tunnel work between Langhus and Oslo We're pleased about the completion of the Nordbyveien bridge, the new landmark The four tunnel boring machines have now covered over half the distance between in Ski. In August 2018, the first section of the new Ski station is scheduled to open. central Oslo and Langhus. In 2018, two of them will finish their work. There will still be a lot of activity in Ski as we enter the new year. The two northbound machines will pass under the Tunneling near Gamlebyen According to plan the train traffic operations will run from the first neighbourhoods of Kastellet, Holtet and Bekkelaget in 2018, When the two northbound TBM machines break through in section of the new station in 2018. The west side of the station will before meeting the Northern end of the long tunnel under 2018, it will take place in the area under the EKT riding centre be ready for operation, with two new platforms for the new tracks Jomfrubråten. The two southbound machines will pass under the and Jomfrubråten. Early next year there will also be a 1, 2, 3 and 4 and access to the new platforms will be from the Bøleråsen, Vevelstadåsen and Ramstad areas during the period breakthrough from Tresporhallen to the concrete tunnel that will western side of the station. from January to August 2018. The residents in these areas have take the train tracks towards the Oslo Central Station. received information in advance of this work in November 2017. Tresporhallen is part of the Blix Tunnel inside Ekebergsåsen. It Public meeting in January measures 470 square metres and is where the tracks for the Follo Thursday, 11 January 2018, the Municipality of Ski invites What can the neighbours ecpect? Line and the inbound Østfold Line merge together. everyone to a public meeting at 19.00. Bane NOR will be present The sound from the tunnel boring machines can entail a at the meeting to inform about the progress of our work and the temporary nuisance to neighbours who live near the tunnel Noisy work road ahead. The Akershus Country Administration, Norwegian corridor. In these neighbourhoods, the closest residents will notice In the northern section of Tresporhallen work is progressing. This Public Roads Administration and Ruter will also participate, and a gradually increasing humming sound over a period of time for may affect some residents in Gamlebyen. Bane NOR apologises Photo you will have an opportunity to ask questions. The public meeting each of the two tunnel boring machines. Then the sound level will for any nuisance caused by this work and requests that will be held in the municipal council hall at the Ski Town Hall at : Bane NOR be at its highest level for a few weeks before the sound decreases neighbours who have questions or experience any Idrettsveien 8. More information will be available on our website New landmark: The new Nordbyveien bridge in Ski. slowly when the machines move away from the area. inconvenience, to contact us so that we can consider mitigating banenor.no/follobanen and on Facebook, after Christmas. measures. According to plan, the work in this area should be The period when the sound level is at its highest will vary from completed by the end of February 2018. timeline on the last page for the exact dates. More information will Several roads will be finished in 2018 neighbourhood to neighbourhood, depending, for example, on be distributed closer to summer next year. Photo Jernbaneveien will open for public transport, bicycles and the distance between the tunnel and the surface. Experience from : Bane NOR pedestrians next year, and Kirkeveien and Nordbyveien are well New access to the station similar projects shows that there is a great deal of variation in how on their way to being finished. According to plan the pavements After this summer's traffic re-routing, Bane NOR will start the work one experiences sound and noise from construction work like this. will be completed in 2017, while the remaining asphalting will be on renewing the old tracks 1, 2 and 3, and the current side If you have questions or experience any nuisance, we request that completed in the spring of 2018. platform and middle platform. It will not be possible to use the old you contact us so that we can consider mitigating measures. tracks after this. The entry and exit areas will be moved to the west Replacement of rail transportation by busses side. Pedestrians will therefore have to allow more time from Breakthrough Inconveniently it will be necessary to stop the train operations central Ski to the new platforms. This summer/autumn the two northbound machines will break between Ski and Oslo during several periods in 2018 to perform through at Jomfrubråten, while the two southbound machines will engineering work. NSB will provide a replacement of rail Contact us if you experience any inconvinience finish their work in early 2019. However, in the last period, the transportation with bus service during these periods. Bane NOR apologises for any inconvenience caused by the works southbound machines will be boring under a sparsely populated and requests that neighbours, who have questions or experience area between Ramstad and Roås. From the end of June to the beginning of August, four new tracks any inconvenience, to contact us. The neighbours that are affected will be finished and extensive construction work will start on the the most will be offered alternative accommodation. More The tunnel underground at Mosseveien: Illustration eastern side of the station. This work will be performed around information will also be published, as the work progresses, on our the clock, and it will unfortunately entail some noise. See the website at banenor.no/follobanen and on our Facebook page. Day zone Timeline TBM Tunnel TBM Tunnel D & B Bekkelaget Kastellet Ljanselva Grønliåsen Åsland riggområde Assurdalen Vevelstad 116 meter 102 meter 37 meter 162 meter 106 meter 55 meter 60 meter Endepunkt TBM Nordstrand kirke Gjersrudbekken Taraldrud Bøleråsen Roåsbekken Endepunkt TBM Sloraveien Ski Middelalderparken Jomfrubråten Holtet Tangen 21 meter Oslo 2 TBM Oslo 2 TBM Ski Autumn 2018 Spring 2018 Autumn 2017 Spring 2017 Start September/October 2016 Start November/December 2016 Autumn 2017 Winter 2017/2018 Autumn 2018 Winter 2018/2019 Webmap tunnelroute: http://webgis.no/follobanen Photo : Bane NOR Christmas 2017 The work in the tunnel between Ekebergåsen and Langhus will stop from 22. December til 1 January 2018. We wish everyone Merry Christmas! Important dates 2018 • 10.01 – Meeting for neighbours in Bøleråsen • 11. 01 – Public meeting in Ski • 16.01 – Meeting for neighbours at Kastellet– Bekkelaget • 10.02–11.02 Concrete tunnel close to Oslo Central Station. Stop in the rail traffic • 03.03–04.03 Stop in the rail traffic • Påsken: 29.03–02.04 Stop in the rail traffic Next fase at Oslo S • 28.04–29.04 Over the last year the majority of the ground Stop in the rail traffic • 26.05–27.05 reinforcement at the construction area in Gamlebyen Stop in the rail traffic • Sommeren: 23.06–06.08 was completed. The next phase, construction of a Stop in the rail traffic concrete tunnel, is well under way. • 25.08–26.08 Stop in the rail traffic • 22.09–23.09 In recent months, construction work has • Construction of concrete tunnel Stop in the rail traffic started on a large tunnel structure from • Rock hammering and drilling at • 13.10–14.10 Bispegata towards Ekebergåsen. This is Mosseveien Stop in the rail traffic the first section of the 600-metre long • Groundwork: excavation and mass concrete tunnel that will link the Follo transport, as well as some minor sheet Line's long rock tunnel, the Blix Tunnel, piling and lime-cement stabilisation and the Østfold Line's new corridor to • Demolition and reconstruction of the platforms at Oslo Central Station. technical railway infrastructure at Oslo Contact information Central Station and Loenga. In addition, work is progressing in the Mosseveien area, and between Bispegata Stop of train operations Gunnar Børseth – Oslo Central Station and Oslo S. At Mosseveien rock In 2018, it will be necessary to stop the Tlf: 906 38 626 hammering and rock support is executed train operations to carry out important Nina Aasmundsen – in connection with the transition from work in or next to the train tracks at Oslo Tunnel Oslo S–Ekeberg the concrete tunnel to the rock tunnel. Central Station and Loenga for several Tlf: 412 23 139 North of Bispegata, the old bridge is periods. Unfortunately necessary to work Gro Elden – Tunnel Ekeberg–Langhus being demolished and groundwork is around the clock to take maximum Tlf: 477 94 866 carried out for the constructions of advantage of these periods.
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