This is very exciting if you live in the Copenhagen–Malmö area. Currently it takes 5 hours from Copenhagen to Hamburg, and 8 hours if you want to get to Berlin. With this tunnel done, I believe Copenhagen to Hamburg will be less than three hours. Suddenly a weekend trip to Germany by train looks more practical. The train is very nice right now, but you need to set aside a day for travel, in both directions.
It's a shame that the legacy of the Cold War means that Hamburg is “closer” by rail than Berlin, even though if you look at a map you can see it shouldn't be. If they had built a tunnel to Rostock, things would have been different…
It's a shame that the legacy of the Cold War means that Hamburg is “closer” by rail than Berlin, even though if you look at a map you can see it shouldn't be. If they had built a tunnel to Rostock, things would have been different…