When it opens July 1, the $3 billion øresund Fixed Link (www.oresundskonsortiet.com) - spanning the 10 miles between Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, and the Swedish city of Malmö - will blur millennia-old national borders by creating a trans-Scandinavian twin city of some 3.5 million.
The hybrid design incorporates both a cable-stayed double-deck bridge and the world's longest underwater rail- and motorway - anchored midway by an artificial island. The bridge engineers took a simple Lego approach, snapping prefab sections into place using an enormous GPS-controlled crane. The greater challenge, however, still awaits: solving international gridlock.
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