TRANSFORMING ODENSE
A NEW IDENTITY
EUROPE sized city to a great city in Denmark ,” Hagelskær notes . “ It ’ s not only enough to have a city . You need culture , you need sports , you need good shopping and restaurants , you need education , you need transport .
“ All these things are handled in the one big overall strategy of getting to a greater city and they are all projects attacking the same three principals – that is attraction , growth and transformation of the city . Of course , from our perspective , the tramway is the most important project of all of them because we are combining the single strategy towards a higher scale and with the infrastructure .”
TRANSFORMING ODENSE
The overall strategy of making Odense a great city is one that Odense Letbane is determined not to lose sight of . “ The tramway scheme in Odense is being built in four legs . It is our vision of the tram that it is supporting the overall city vision . All in Odense need to be careful because it ’ s not the end goal to deliver a tramway . It is just a step to the end goal . The end goal is to make to transform of all of Odense ,” observes Hagelskær .
Construction began on July 1st 2015 and then mayor , Anker Boye , cut the first section of tarmac
To support the overall objective , Odense Letbane envisions that it will support development work in Odense generally and especially within 400m of each station . “ We know that there will come a lot of investment , we see it already . We support new infrastructure and we are integrating and strengthening the public transportation infrastructure , both the existing railways and the highway ,” states Hagelskær . From the public transportation point of view , Odense Letbane is also supporting and transforming the bus system .
A NEW IDENTITY
Like many cities , Odense is facing major
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