Tag: traffic

Traffic fatalities blamed on men

Fully nine out of 10 fatal automobile accidents in Norway can be blamed on male drivers  who took too many risks or were driving...

Bike race under ‘thumbtack attack’

Police in Oppland were investigating what they called sabotage against a major highway cycling race on Saturday, after large amounts of thumbtacks were found...

More heavy cargo clogs the roads

More heavy goods transport in Norway is ending up on the roads, and less on the rail network, despite the current government’s pledge to...

Driver killed in rockslide

A motorist was killed when a large rockslide hit the main E6 highway at Sel in the valley of Gudbrandsdalen on  Friday. The slide was...

‘Tour of Norway’ cycling race caused traffic chaos

Norwegian cycling star Edvald Boasson Hagen won the weekend's cycling race "Tour of Norway" (Glava Tour) but that didn't cheer motorists who got stranded...

Reaction mixed to transport plan

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called it the biggest commitment to public transportation projects ever made in Norway, but his left-center government's release of its...

Deadly mass crash closed highway

UPDATED: Five cars and at least one truck were involved in a dramatic collision on the heavily trafficked E18 highway west of Oslo Thursday...

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...

Oslo’s main airport beats its rivals

Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen, OSL, has now emerged as the largest in the Nordic region, with more passenger traffic last month than the...

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....
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