Swinetunnel to Usedom: Success model for the border region celebrates anniversary!
Swinetunnel to Usedom: Success model for the border region celebrates anniversary!
The Swinetunnel, a connection between the island of Usedom and the Polish island of Wolin, has turned out to be a real success. After its ceremonial inauguration in June 2023, a daily use of 16,000 vehicles was recorded, which makes the tunnel to the most used access to Usedom. Compared to the other two bridges in Wolgast and the tanker, the use of the tunnel clearly exceeds its value. According to the Ostsee-Zeitung So has the fear that the tunnel could "steal" German seaside resorts of holidaymakers as unfounded.
The construction work on the Swinet tunnel started in February 2019 and the total costs amounted to 220 million euros. Immediately after the opening, the tunnel was released for public transport and has made it much easier to arrive to Usedom since then. Before that, the only way to reach the island was a car ferry from Wolin to Usedom, which was often associated with long waiting times of 1 to 2 hours, especially during the high season. The Usedom-insider report that this new connection not only shortens times, but also brings with it improvementability for the residents and tourists.
regional cooperation and infrastructure
The positive development of the Swine tunnel also takes place as part of new initiatives for infrastructure promotion. At the end of April, a German-Polish infrastructure conference took place in Schwedt, in which around 160 participants discussed the exchange of ideas and information on the infrastructural expansion of the region. The event was organized by the city of Schwedt and the information and advisory network (IBN) in the EuroGegion Pomerania and highlighted the challenges in front of which East Germany is facing Poland, such as rbb24 reported.
The focus of the conference focuses on improving the traffic connections and the networking of the two countries. Raik Maiwald from the Stadt Schwedt business development agency expressed concrete wishes for measures to revive the waterway and inland navigation traffic. Guido Noack from the IHK Ostbrandenburg pointed out to the Stop of the German traffic projects compared to Poland and emphasized the urgency of better timing of the rail for Schwedt as well as possible expressway connections according to Szczecin.Two years after its opening, the Swine tunnel shows that it is more than just a traffic route; He acts as a catalyst for the exchange and development in the German-Polish border region. As a model of success, which already sets important economic impulses today, it remains to be seen which further projects and partnerships will follow in the future.
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