Tag: roads
Transport plans don’t meet goals
Norwegian politicians continue to spend huge amounts of public funds on bridges, roads and tunnels in outlying areas that benefit as few as a...
County roads in worse shape than expected
Complaints have raged for years over the sorry state of Norwegian highways around the country, most of which are just two lanes and narrow....
Warmer winter weather turned fatal
After an extended period of bitterly cold temperatures, thermometers rose especially in southern Norway over the weekend. Fresh snow that turned to rain in...
French tourist jailed for speeding
A French tourist who was caught driving at excessive speed over a scenic mountain highway in north-central Norway has lost his driver's license and...
Stunning roads blend old and new
Norway's network of Nasjonal turistveger (National Tourist Routes) keeps expanding, offering motorists what can amount to the rides of their lives. It's not the...
Road toll system baffles visitors
Thousands of drivers of foreign-registered vehicles on Norwegian roads aren't paying road tolls, not necessarily because they're trying to cheat the system, but because...
Stoltenberg shakes up government
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced the replacement on Monday of two Center Party ministers in the government coalition he leads. The shake-up is widely...
Driving costs shift into high gear
As the summer driving season sets in, comes news that the already-high costs of driving a car in Norway have accelerated in recent years....
New highway project takes a toll
A long-awaited expansion of the E6 highway opened this week north of Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen, but the road improvement comes at a...
Building firms fined for price-fixing
State competition authorities have hit two large construction firms with heavy fines after some employees were found to have set prices on road-building projects....
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