Tag: highways
Storms close some mountain passes
After announcing earlier in the week that most all mountain passes were open for holiday traffic, state highway officials were hoping on Thursday that most...
Most mountain roads open for holiday traffic
Norway's state highway department (Statens vegvesen) reported Tuesday that nearly all the main roads over the mountains of southern Norway were open, making it easier...
Flooded highway cut off Stavanger
It was impossible to drive the main E39 highway between the cities of Kristiansand and Stavanger during much of the weekend, after the extreme...
Election can affect future of new E18 highway in Oslo
Norway's national automobile federation NAF, with 500,000 members, was sounding the alarm before Monday's elections, worrying that too many parties were riding an "environmental populistic...
Critics blast plans for Ringerike rail
It didn't take long for environmental activists, who normally hail new railway projects, to bash the government's recently announced plans to improve the train...
Main mountain highway’s tunnel set to reopen
The Gudvanga Tunnel on the main E16 highway connecting Oslo and Bergen is expected to reopen to ordinary traffic early next week. It was...
Highway reopens after rockslide
Norway is vulnerable to rock- and earthslides crashing down steep mountainsides and onto highways. Another one occurred Monday evening, blocking the main E39 highway that runs along...
E16 still closed at burned-out tunnel
UPDATED: Norway's cross-country E16 highway, the main route between Oslo and Bergen, remains blocked midway after a Swedish tour bus caught fire inside its lengthy...
Latest tunnel fire rang new alarms
Another fire inside one of Norway's many tunnels that connect highways all over the country has raised new alarm over their safety standards. The state...
Bus fire forced tunnel evacuation, five injured
UPDATED: A Swedish bus carrying Asian tourists caught fire inside the 11.4 kilometer-long Gudvangatunnelen in the mountainous western county of Sogn og Fjordane on Tuesday....
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