Single Lane Roads, Tunnels, and Bridges

Throughout our journey around and across Iceland, we have seen many single lane roads, tunnels, and bridges.

As you can see the road goes from normal two lanes while on the normal road, to strange one-lane when you get to the bridge.

I can sort of understand the single lane bridge, when you can see the person across or on the bridge, so you know if you want to enter, but with the tunnels, it's another story all together.




The single lane tunnels are normally 2-6 killometers long, and have at least one turn so you can't see the other end. Throughout the tunnel there are small pull-offs, where you stop to let someone who is coming at you pass.

It amazes me that these are able to work in Iceland. If these were in a bigger country, like America or the U.K., they would be full to the brim with accidents as soon as they were opened.

My dad was fine with the single lane bridges, but got a bit stressed out when driving through the single lane tunnels.

Location:Laugavegur,Reykjavík,Iceland