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In September 2011, the local governments in Copenhagen and the neighbouring Malmö in Sweden announced that they were seeking European Union funding to study a potential metro line under the Øresund to the neighbourhood of Malmö Central Station, providing faster trips and additional capacity beyond that of the existing Øresund Bridge. [3]
A few daily trains to Stockholm stop only at Malmö Central Station, Copenhagen Airport and Copenhagen Central Station (København H). From Lund C to Østerport Station (except for an hole between Østerport and Nørreport between 00:44am and 2:35am) there is an hourly late night service and the trip lasts exactly 60 minutes.
Since 4 May 2017 the line had changed to perform ID checks only at Malmö Hyllie station for trains travelling to Sweden. As of 2023, frequency of 6 trains per hour during rush hour had resumed, and trains are timetabled to wait 6 minutes at Malmö Hyllie where the Swedish police check ID of alighting passengers. [14] [15] [16]
The secretariat is located at Lund University and at the University of Copenhagen. The commercial interaction across the border has also significantly increased. In 2018, an average of 19,100 vehicles crossed the bridge each day. [12] The ports of Copenhagen and Malmö were merged in 2001 to form a single company, Copenhagen Malmö Port.
Cycling to work. Copenhagen is known as one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. [3] Every day 1.1 million km are bicycled in Copenhagen. 45% of all citizens commute to work, school or university by bicycle and it is municipal policy that this number should have gone up to 40% by 2012 and to 50% in 2015.
In 1926, the Rotterdam–Amsterdam–Copenhagen run was extended to Malmö. [6]: 416 Singapore was first served in May 1933 (), when it was taken over from KNILM and added as an intermediate stop for the Amsterdam–Batavia line. [7] By April 1934 (), Berlin, Hamburg and Liverpool were already part of the European route network. [8]
The part through Stockholm has very heavy traffic, including the most heavily trafficked road in Scandinavia [citation needed], Essingeleden (160 000 vehicles/day). There is often congestion on this stretch. A new tunnel for route E20, "Norra länken", was built north of the city center and opened 30 November 2014. [6]
It is connected by train to Copenhagen Central Station and beyond as well as to Malmö and other towns in Sweden. For the west of the country, the major airport is Billund (3m passengers in 2016) although both Aalborg (1.4m passengers in 2011) and Aarhus (591.000 passengers in 2011) have smaller airports with regular connections to Copenhagen.