Kaj Ikast was one of those behind a number of traffic projects in Denmark – including the Great Belt Bridge and the Øresund Bridge.
He sat in the Folketing from 1983 to 2005 and was part of the so-called traffic mafia, which in the 1980s and 90s distributed traffic billions around the country.
In addition to Ikast, the group consisted of politicians such as Svend Heiselberg (V), Arne Melchior (CD) and the Social Democrats Helge Mortensen and Jens Risgaard Knudsen.
– In the period I have been with, we have changed Denmark from an agricultural society to an industrial society, where people can commute over long distances, he has told Nordjyske.
Kaj Ikast would have turned 85 on Saturday 5 December.
Source: The Nordic Page