A new highway will be built between the city of Aalborg to the island of Egholm replacing ferry service:
https://www.worldhighways.com/wh10/news/new-eu12-billion-highway-denmark
Oof, that article is off the mark.
This motorway won't provide access to this island, but functions as a new bypass motorway of Aalborg. It is 20 kilometers long and will alleviate traffic through the Limfjord Tunnel.
The motorway will cross over the island but won't provide access to it. The island is almost entirely undeveloped, with only a handful of farms. Access will be provided by a local road built as a companion span to the motorway bridge.
(https://i.ibb.co/pdHpgpK/Aalborg.jpg)
^^^ thank for providing that information. I was looking at it on Google Maps and I didn't understand why it would be built for the island.
Motorway projects in Denmark tend to be cyclical. Years with high activity are followed by years of low activity, this seems to have to do with political decision making.
Political approval in Denmark is typically concensus-based and it is quite common that opposition parties follow the government position on road projects, so two-third or 4/5th majorities on road projects are not uncommon.
A major expansion project has kicked off on E45 between Vejle and Skanderborg, where the entire motorway will be widened to six lanes, with the additional capacity coming online between 2025 and 2027.
(https://i.ibb.co/sWjnQHj/E45.png)
E45 along the west side of Aarhus will also be expanded to six lanes over the next few years.
(https://i.ibb.co/5TxMwyF/E45.png)
Denmark lagged Western Europe in car ownership in the 1990s and early 2000s, but has caught up. Traffic volumes on motorways have increased quite significantly since 2010. In most of Denmark, the busiest days are during the weekend.
Traffic congestion in Denmark is limited, there is some congestion in Copenhagen and on local roads in Aarhus, but not nearly as much as Germany, Benelux and Oslo.
There was a study for a congestion charge in Copenhagen, similar to Göteborg and Stockholm in Sweden, however the study found that Copenhagen has too little congestion to justify a congestion charge and that Aarhus had greater delays on its road network than Copenhagen.