Building a tunnel through a stable and self supporting granite mountain is a bit different from building one under a river that is on top of a slab of clay and

Building a tunnel through a stable and self supporting granite mountain is a bit different from building one under a river that is on top of a slab of clay and sand so I don't think the two projects are directly comparable. And the regulations are really not that different here in Norway. What is different is that there is a less adversarial society. We are a little more inclined to thrash out the problems in discussion rather than litigation. But there are plenty of infrastructure projects here that take longer and cause more disruption than they should. For instance the upgrade to the E18 between Oslo and Drammen on which 17 billion kroner (1.7 billion USD) has already been spent without getting halfway and the southern half of the project has been scrapped because of the cost of buying out the people who live in the way of the new route. https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/ny-nasjonal-transportplan-vraker-e18-satsing/s/5-95-1720609 https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/ny-nasjonal-transportplan-...