Qualla: Sundøy Bridge https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/p/sund-y-bridge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sundøy Bridge https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge Sundøy Bridge: Introduction https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge/ Photo credit Ximonic (Simo Räsänen), CC BY-SA 3.0. A mountain range can function as a border. When the Helgeland Bridge opened in 1991 and finally tied the island of Alsta to the Norwegian mainland, the residents of Sundøya watched the celebration from the far side of seven peaks — connected on the map, cut off in practice, because no road crosses the Seven Sisters and none ever will. They kept their ferry. They also kept an argument, and they made it patiently for twelve years: if the island got a bridge, then the part of the island the bridge did not reach was owed one too. On 9 August 2003, they won it.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/p/sund-y-bridge-wp/u79p-sund-y-bridge-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sundøy Bridge: The Wrong Side of the Ridge https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge/ Photo credit Øyvind Rask, CC BY-SA 4.0. Alsta is not a large island, but it is an awkward one. The Seven Sisters run down its spine — Botnkrona at 1,072 metres, Skjerdingen, Grytfoten and the rest — a wall of rock steep enough that the road network on one shore has no relationship at all to the road network on the othe...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/p/sund-y-bridge-wp/u79p-sund-y-bridge-the-wrong-side-of-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Sundøy Bridge: A Bridge Worth Arguing About https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge/ Photo credit Finnrind, Public domain. Sundøya had fewer than 150 inhabitants. The bridge cost well over 150 million kroner. Nobody pretended those numbers made obvious sense together, and the decision was genuinely disputed in Norwegian public debate — the kind of project that invites a certain sort of newspaper colu...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/p/sund-y-bridge-wp/u79p-sund-y-bridge-a-bridge-worth-arguing-about.mp3 0:06 3 full Sundøy Bridge: No Cables, No Towers https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge/ Photo credit Finnrind, Public domain. Anyone expecting a smaller cousin of the Helgeland Bridge is in for a surprise, because the two structures share a fjord and almost nothing else. The Sundøy Bridge carries no stay cables and has no towers. It is a free-cantilever concrete box girder: 538 metres in three spans, wi...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/7/9/p/sund-y-bridge-wp/u79p-sund-y-bridge-no-cables-no-towers.mp3 0:06 4 full Sundøy Bridge: August 2003 https://qualla.com/sund-y-bridge/ Photo credit Finnrind, Public domain. Jan-Eirik Nilsskog designed it, and the bridge opened to traffic on 9 August 2003. The old ferry landing is still there on the mainland shore, a slab of concrete sloping into the water in the foreground of nearly every photograph anyone takes of the span above it. That juxtaposit...

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