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44-600: The Capital Region has 29 municipalities and a regional council consisting of 41 elected members. As of 1 August 2021, the chairperson is Lars Gaardhøj, who is a member of the Social Democrats party of Denmark. The Capital Region was established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform . This reform abolished the traditional counties (Danish plural: amter , singular: amt ) and created five regions . As part of this reform, 271 smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, reducing

88-454: A coat of arms , only logotypes . The regions do not collect taxes and are financed primarily through block grants , they are unable to transfer money from one area of expenditure to another, and they must return any unused money to the central government. The Capital Region of Denmark is one of five regions in Denmark and consists of the municipalities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg ,

132-530: A tube over the motorway forms a connection between the platforms. Furthermore, an additional track is to be installed at Køge Station while Ringsted Station is to be renovated as well. The programme required the construction of various civil engineering works, including a total of five tunnels, which possess a cumulative length of 2 km (1.2 mi), and four bridges, which had a combined length of 1.8 km (1.1 mi). In addition, various roads, bridges, and miscellaneous passages are to be installed along

176-421: A contract with Banedanmark to design the first stretch of the railway line. Banedanmark decided that the best approach would be to divided the contracts for the civil works into packages worth between €30 million and €200 million. In July 2012, civil engineering firm MT Højgaard was awarded a contract for the construction of four road bridges and railway bridges near Vallensbaek and Brøndby, while Aarsleff Rail

220-496: A further delay of opening. In August 2018 construction phase was finished, electricity switched on in mid-August and testing with rolling stock was started at the end of August. The line entered in service on 31 May 2019. Being initially opened without the ETCS signalling system (using ATC instead), the maximum operating speed of the line was reduced to 180 km/h (112 mph) and its capacity limited to 5 trains per hour. In

264-471: A regional council of 41 members. Members are elected every four years during local elections. [REDACTED] Media related to Region Hovedstaden at Wikimedia Commons 55°56.39′N 12°18′E  /  55.93983°N 12.300°E  / 55.93983; 12.300 2017 Danish local elections Local elections were held on 21 November 2017 for Denmark 's 98 municipal councils and five regional councils . All 2,432 seats were contested for

308-468: A review of the studied options, the Danish parliament decided to restrict further research activity to two of the potential solutions, the so-called 'greenfield solution' and the 'fifth-track solution'. In late 2009, the fifth-track solution was officially rejected, although it was projected that this option would have been cheaper. During May 2010, the greenfield solution for the line received approval from

352-423: Is a high-speed railway on Zealand , Denmark, connecting Copenhagen via Køge with Ringsted . The line was inaugurated on 31 May 2019, and started operating on 1 June as the first high-speed railway in Denmark. It supports speeds of up to 250 km/h (155 mph) for passenger trains as well as a maximum of 24 trains per hour along its length. As of 2023, the speed limit is 200 km/h. The construction of

396-501: Is a unitary state , its "capital region" is not a capital district , but one of several regions of Denmark that happens to contain the national capital. The region does not include the Ertholmene archipelago which is situated to the northeast of Bornholm. The gross domestic product (GDP) of the region was € 122.2 billion in 2018, accounting for 40.6% of Denmark's economic output. GDP per capita, adjusted for purchasing power,

440-609: Is also acknowledged that further higher-speed lines shall need to be constructed in order achieve all of the desired reductions. As intended, trains are to follow the existing line from Copenhagen Central station through Ny Ellebjerg station . The new line will begin south of the Vigerslev Allé station , and follow the Kulbanevej street and the Motorway 21 . From there, it will turn north of Ishøj and after that follow

484-466: Is far larger than the current capacity of Copenhagen Central Station , which, as of 2006, was ca. 17 trains arriving from west per hour. The line was inaugurated on 31 May 2019; Crown Prince Frederik was guest of honour as the new high-speed rail track was opened by national rail infrastructure company Banedanmark. The track has been built to enable high-speed trains which can travel at up to 250 kilometres per hour, although such trains will not be used on

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528-515: Is intended to be connected to the S-train line F and a future metro line. Another new station, Køge North , is now completed just south of the road Egedesvej. This facility is equipped with train platforms both east of (S-train) (in Ølsemagle Lyng or Ølsemagle Strand ) and west of the motorway (close to the village Ølsemagle , further to the west), located near motorway exit 32 north of Køge. A 225 metres (738 ft) pedestrian bridge formed as

572-498: Is owning and operating the hospitals and healthcare services of the region. In the east of Denmark, there is one traffic region covered by the public transport agency Movia , which is owned by the Capital Region of Denmark and Region Zealand , and operates in 45 of the 46 municipalities. Because of its remote location, Bornholm has its own traffic company, Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab , also known as BAT . Likewise, in

616-668: Is the namesake of the Furesø Municipality . Among several forests, the region also has the Gribskov forest, which is the namesake of the Gribskov Municipality . The Dyrehaven forest park is just north of Copenhagen (and east of Furesø) in Gentofte Municipality and Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality . Geologically, the region lies in the northern part of Denmark , which is rising, or sinking

660-680: The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link and other traffic infrastructure projects. The Copenhagen-Ringsted Line (a high-speed train line) came into operation on 1 June 2019 to increase transport capacity and relieve congestion in Roskilde and the narrow 9-9.5 mile isthmus between Roskilde Fjord and the bay of Køge Bugt . It does this by moving international and national train traffic to the new train line and only keeping local and regional traffic. The region's primary function and largest expenditure (which takes up around 90% of its budget)

704-425: The 2018–21 term of office , together with 205 seats (a fixed number of 41 seats in each council) in five regional councils. In the previous election , there were 2,444 seats in the municipal councils. The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.6%. 3,074,840 cast their votes. They voted for 205 seats in the five regional councils. This number remains unchanged since

748-477: The 98 municipal councils, a reduction of 12 seats from 2444 after the previous election . The total countrywide number of seats in the municipal councils can be seen here and on the pages of the previous elections. They can be accessed from the template at the bottom of the pages. Each municipal council consists of 9-55 seats, distributed over twelve established parties and a number of local parties . The mayors (Danish: Borgmester ; plural: Borgmestre ) of

792-546: The 98 municipalities heads the council meetings and is the chairman of the finance committee in each of their respective municipalities. Only in Copenhagen , this mayor – the head of the finance committee and council meetings – is called the Lord Mayor (Danish: Overborgmester ). The final decision on who would be mayor had to be made by the municipal councils no later than Friday, 15 December 2017. The term of office for

836-560: 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, prepared by the national Rail Planning Committee, were rejected by the Danish Parliament , leading to further studying and refinement. In 2009, the government formally discounted

880-555: The Danish Parliament in the form of the Construction Act. The greenfield solution's aim is the diversion of all trains which do not service local destinations between Copenhagen and Roskilde or between Roskilde and Ringsted, onto a newly built line, which later became known as the Copenhagen–Ringsted Line. By building the Copenhagen–Ringsted Line, it was anticipated that local traffic could then be expanded on

924-425: The construction phase of the programme officially began. In addition to the line itself, other engineering works are also being performed, including the building of two new stations, one at Ny Ellebjerg and the other at Køge North which has now been completed, while additional infrastructure is also being installed at existing stations. By late 2017, reports emerged of severe difficulties having been encountered with

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968-405: The east of Denmark, the two regions and 45 of the 46 municipalities make up one sole employment region, with Bornholm being its own employment region. Bornholm also performs other tasks that are normally performed by the regions in the rest of Denmark. The municipality of Bornholm is therefore called Bornholm Regional Municipality . In some respects, the island forms a region of its own. As Denmark

1012-451: The existing railway, while those trains which traveled on the new line would benefit from reduced travel times between Copenhagen and Køge , where a new station will be constructed at Køge North, to be reduced by 15 minutes. In total, a 60 km (37 mi) section of new dual-track electrified railway, capable of handling speeds of up to 250 km/h (155 mph) for passenger trains, is to be built; reportedly, this undertaking would be

1056-513: The expansion of the existing tracks via the construction of a pair of new tracks alongside the existing lines or construction of two tracks along a new alignment between Copenhagen and Ringsted via Køge, which included an option for building a new station at Køge. A combination of both expansion and new construction were also considered. During March 1999, these proposed solutions were rejected, thus efforts were made to refine these proposals ahead of another review. International consultancy firm NIRAS

1100-438: The first elections for the regional councils in the newly created regions, which were set up 1 January 2007 after the 13 counties were abolished. The regions are not municipalities, but are financed only through block grants paid by the central government and their constituent municipalities. The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.8%. 3,226,558 cast their votes. They voted for 2432 seats in

1144-496: The first months of operation, only 1 or 2 trains per hour were scheduled on the new line. In April 2023, the ETCS Level ;2 installation was completed, which will improve trains regularity. This was also a necessary step for operating trains in the future at the line's construction speed and capacity. As designed, the total capacity of the new line was planned to be 24 trains per hour per direction, but this number

1188-408: The former counties of Copenhagen and Frederiksborg , and the regional municipality of Bornholm . It borders Zealand and Sweden 's Skåne County via the Øresund Bridge . Denmark's largest lake, Arresø , lies 43 kilometres (27 mi) northwest of Copenhagen. The region contains several other lakes, the deepest in Denmark being Furesø , 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) northwest of Copenhagen, which

1232-454: The idea of simply building an extra track alongside the traditional line and, during the following year, opted to authorise the building of a higher-speed line along a new alignment. National railway infrastructure agency Banedanmark intentionally divided the project's work into individual packages, worth between €30 million and €200 million, which were competitively bid for by multiple consortiums and individual companies. On 12 September 2012,

1276-502: The largest rail programme to ever be performed by national railway infrastructure agency Banedanmark . The decision to construct a new high speed railway line that it led to the forming of an initiative, known as the one hour target , which is a stated aim of reducing travel times across Denmark's major cities, such as Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus and Aalborg, to just one hour. The Copenhagen–Ringsted Line shall help reduce some of these intercity journey times to one hour or less, although it

1320-522: The least, due to post-glacial rebound , turning former inlets and bays into lakes. Arresø is one example, having extended northwest into Kattegat . (The land is rising by 9 millimeters every year in Furuögrund , the northeastern part of Skellefteå Municipality , north of Kvarken .) Because of the mobility of the sand dunes , forests have been planted along the coast of Kattegat in the municipalities of Helsingør , Gribskov , and Halsnæs . For

1364-430: The length of the route. Reportedly, the construction phase required 128,000 m (4,500,000 cu ft) of concrete , 105,000 t of steel , 358,000 m (12,600,000 cu ft) of gravel and 327,000 m (11,500,000 cu ft) of chippings . During January 2011, it was announced that a consortium of Vössing , EKJ Consulting and Sweco , led by engineering company Atkins , had signed

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1408-479: The line initially, with operator DSB instead using existing trains at increased speeds. High-speed rail (HSR) will be possible on the new line in future, however. The Coradia Stream (IC5) trains that DSB have ordered for delivery in 2025 will have a top speed of 200 km/h (125 mph). As of 2024, it is expected that the remaining part of the ERTMS implementation will get completed in 2026. This work includes

1452-472: The mayors elected by the majority of councillors among its members in each municipal council is the same as for the councils elected, namely 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2021. The municipality on the somewhat remote island of Bornholm is called a Regional Municipality, because the municipality also handles several tasks not carried out by the other Danish municipalities but by the regions . Copenhagen-Ringsted Line The Copenhagen–Ringsted line

1496-499: The motorway E20 all the way to Fjællebro ( Kværkeby ) in Ringsted Municipality , from where it will go north of and parallel to the old Zealand West Line line until Ringsted. The line will also be linked to an existing 180 km (110 mi) railway that passes between Copenhagen and the Danish land border with Germany . The Copenhagen–Ringsted Line will feature a new station at Ny Ellebjerg ; this facility

1540-505: The necessity of addressing this situation, Danish officials began to consider various methods intended to resolve this. In 1993, the first proposals for improving railway transportation between Copenhagen and Ringsted were formalised; one of the early options to be explored was the construction of new main line-standard tracks between Hvidovre and Taastrup . During 1994-1997, the Rail Planning Committee decided to expand

1584-484: The new line's signalling system; according to project officials, initial operations are to be limited to only one train per hour for the first year while remedial work is performed. During the late 1990s, the conventional railway between the Danish cities of Copenhagen to Ringsted became highly congested, forming a bottleneck along that section of the Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line . Recognising

1628-458: The number of municipalities to 98. The reform dramatically diminished the power of regional governments while enhancing that of local governments and of the central government in Copenhagen. It was implemented on 1 January 2007. Unlike the former counties (1970–2006) (Danish Amtskommune , literally 'county municipality'), the regions are not municipalities and are thus not allowed to have

1672-532: The purpose of a road and rail connection to Øresund Bridge , land has been added to the island of Amager , which has a tunnel connecting it with the artificial island Peberholm just south of the island of Saltholm . The land area of east Denmark (east of the Great Belt ) is approximately 9,622 km (3,715 sq mi) and is set to increase due to housing projects in the north of Copenhagen Municipality , and also due to new bridges and tunnels being added, such as

1716-460: The railway lines in order to meet passenger capacity between Copenhagen and Ringsted and suggested various specific methods, such as expansion with two new tracks. During 1997, the Planning Act was passed, which incorporated a plan for the construction of a new line between Copenhagen and Ringsted. Furthermore, the act provided three different solutions for the project; these involved either

1760-484: Was contracted by Rail Net Denmark to construct 12 bridges between Ishøj and Greve in January 2013. During June 2013, a consortium of Barslund and CG Jensen received a contract for the construction of a bridge on Brondby Østervej, as well as a railway tunnel near Holbækmotorvejen, and a pass through Vestvolden. On 12 September 2012, a ceremony officiated by the then-Minister for Transport Henrik Dam Kristensen

1804-546: Was held to mark the commencement of construction activity on the new line; at the occasion, much fanfare was made of the improvements to international travel that it promised to enable once completed. In September 2016 was started the construction of the new Køge North Station . Minister Hans Christian Schmidt also started tracklaying beginning in Ringsted this time. It was finished in time in May 2017. In parallel in January 2017

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1848-412: Was involved in the production of preliminary design and project propositions. According to official documentation published during 2005, the projected time for the line's completion was eight years from its authorisation, of which construction will take five years. Reportedly, the Copenhagen–Ringsted Line was estimated to incur a one-time cost of $ 1.83 billion to complete. During March 2007, following

1892-524: Was started redesign of Ringsted station infrastructure. Some 16 km tracks were reconstructed and 24 turnouts implemented. In May 2017 started final construction with provision of catenary and signalling equipment. Because of difficulties in provision of ETCS (signalling and control component of the ERTMS ) onboard equipment to the trains some replanning has happened. So there was a need for additional installation of deprecated ATC equipment, which caused

1936-555: Was €50,000 or 166% of the EU average (excluding the United Kingdom) in the same year. GDP per person employed was 130% of the average. The Capital Region is the wealthiest region of Denmark. The region is home to 1,910,395 people (as of 1 October 2023). The Capital Region of Denmark also manages several hospitals: [REDACTED] There are 29 municipalities in the Capital Region of Denmark. The five regions of Denmark each have

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