Copenhagen–Ringsted Line Copenhagen–Ringsted Line The Copenhagen–Ringsted line is a railway under construction on Zealand, Denmark, connecting Copenhagen via Køge with Ringsted. Supporting speeds of up to 250 km/h for passenger trains as well as a maximum of 24 trains per hour along its length; once completed, it is to become the first high-speed railway in Denmark. The line is expected to be inaugurated during May 2019. The construction of the Copenhagen–Ringsted Line was largely as a consequence of the conventional Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line between the Danish cities of Copenhagen and Ringsted having become highly congested. During 1999, the first proposals for the route,
History of Copenhagen war. In the 1970s, the so-called five-finger-plan provided commuter train links to the surrounding towns and suburbs. In 1992 construction on the Copenhagen Metro and in 1993 development of a new city area, the Ørestad, began on the island of Amager. The metro underground train system opened for traffic in 2002. Since the summer of 2000, the cities of Copenhagen and Malmö have been connected by a toll bridge, the Øresund Bridge, for both rail and road traffic. It was inaugurated in July 2000 by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Margrethe II of Denmark. As a result, Copenhagen has