The Knappe Tunnel is a four-lane, twin-tube motorway tunnel partially finished, partially under construction in Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The tunnel is part of County Road 557 and consists of the first and second stages of the four-lane motorway project Ring Road West. The tunnel is being built in two stages; the first stage, from Dolvik to Sandeide with a branch to Straume, stated in August 2006 and opened on 10 September 2010. Stage 2 will run from Sandeide to Liavatnet, where it will intersect with National Road 555

Norwegian National Road 555

National Road 555 is a long national road which runs from the city center of Bergen to Kolltveit in Fjell, Norway.-Route:In Bergen, the road has two branches, one two-lane from Nøstet via O.J. Brochs gate and on four-lane from Nygårdstangen, an the interchange with E16 and E39...

. The first part of the tunnel is 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) long, while the second part is scheduled for completion in 2015.