We will investigate both financing and implementation. These changes have been on hold, now we're starting up again, so to speak - negotiation and financing, says Infrastructure Minister Andreas Carlson (KD).
The government also wants to investigate whether financing can partially take place outside the state budget.
Exactly what we will end up with there, we will get back to, but we're pointing to the Eastern Link, for example, here in Stockholm, where tunnel fees could be a way to finance the infrastructure.
The Eastern Highway or Eastern Link, as it is now called, was launched in connection with the Dennis Package, a ring road around Stockholm, in the 1990s. It was then supposed to go between Nacka and Hjorthagen, in a tunnel under, among other things, Djurgården.
The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the Transport Companies welcome the announcement:
"The government is now clearly signaling that they are moving forward with the Eastern Link. Stockholm's business community sees a great need for a completed ring road around Stockholm," writes the Chamber of Commerce.
"That they are opening up for alternative financing of infrastructure is something we have requested. The Malmbanan and the Eastern Link are being pointed out, which would benefit both Swedish companies and society at large," says the CEO of the Transport Companies, Marcus Dahlsten, in a written comment.
