Årstabroarna

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Årstabroarna (English: The Årsta bridges) are two parallel

Eastern Årsta Bridge

The eastern bridge, the older of the two and still often referred to as Årstabron ("The Årsta Bridge"), is still in operation almost 100 years after its inauguration in 1929. When projected in the early 1920s, an agreement between the state and the city stipulated the arterial railway passing through the city had to be made independent of the sea route passing beneath it. It was therefore decided that the railway should be relocated to a bridge passing over Årsta holmar, with a horizontal clearance of 26 metres ensured by a bascule bridge over the northern passage, and a truss arch bridge (The truss is the old one) over the southern passage offering a span of 100 metres.^[1]

In front of a reworked agreement in 1925, the city, intending to add an iron roadway passing above the present railway, required the bridge to be reinforced accordingly, and additionally it was decided the planned bascule bridge should be replaced by a

The bridge, on its completion the longest bridge in Sweden, was designed be the architect Cyrillus Johansson (1884–1959) and the engineers Ernst Nilsson (1874–1946) and Salomon Kasarnowsky (1887–1960). It has often been compared to a classical Roman aqueduct, and is today declared a historical landmark.^[2][3]

Possible ways of adding car lanes atop the bridge were discussed on several occasions during the remainder of the 20th century, the most elaborate plans, in 1960, being to have a motorway, called Tantoleden, connect Ringvägen and Årsta by building a new bridge on the west side of the old.^[1]

Western Årsta Bridge

A western bridge, designed by Sir

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  Eastern bridge ca 1925
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  Eastern bridge ca 1930
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  Eastern bridge 2008
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  Eastern bridge tower
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  Western, eastern bridge
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  A red bridge over red buildings
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  Western bridge 2008
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  Eastern bridge 2008
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  Eastern bridge 2012

See also

• List of bridges in Stockholm
• Skansbron
• Skanstullsbron
• Johanneshovsbron
• Liljeholmsbron
• Tvärbanan

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Årstabron.

• Stockholmskällan - historical images of Årstabron.
• Banverket – Nya Årstabron i Stockholm
• Norman Foster & Partners - Arstabridge, 1994-2005

59°18′33″N 18°02′38″E / 59.30917°N 18.04389°E / 59.30917; 18.04389