Essingeleden

Essingeleden is a motorway that goes from Solna to Stockholm, Sweden, crossing the westmost parts of central Stockholm, by going over Kungsholmen, Lilla Essingen, and Stora Essingen.

In August 2007 this has increased to 170,000 cars per day, because Essingeleden was then the only road through central Stockholm exempt from the Stockholm congestion tax, and because of repairs of the main road through the inner city.

This has caused big traffic jams on Essingeleden and Södra länken.

The road was inaugurated on 21 August 1966 by Tage Erlander[1] with two temporary lanes in each direction on the western half of the road, as Sweden was about to switch over to right-hand sided traffic the next year.

Essingeleden has on several occasions been included in plans to create a ring road around Stockholm.