Tag: traffic

Major highway may reopen to ease summer traffic

The heavily trafficked E-18 highway southwest of Oslo, closed since one of its bridges collapsed last winter, may reopen before the busy summer holiday season...

Highway repairs re-connect Troms and Finnmark

The vital E6 highway in Northern Norway, the only road that connects the counties of Troms and Finnmark, reopened at Sørkjosen on Tuesday after a...

Landslide cut off Finnmark traffic

State highway officials were scrambling on Monday to try to reopen a portion of the main E6 highway in Northern Norway that connects the...

Snow stymies traffic over Saltfjellet

Winter returned with a vengeance on Tuesday to the mountains of north-central Norway called Saltfjellet. Both the main E6 highway and the rail line...

Traffic nightmare hangs over Oslo

Motorists trying to drive in and through Norway's capital face months, if not years, of what's expected to be the worst traffic chaos ever. Ten...

EU OKs electric vehicle incentives

Just a day after Norway's 50,000th electric vehicle (EV) hit the streets, Norwegian officials won assurance that their economic incentives that make the cars so popular also...

Most drunk drivers are young men

Norway is known for its strict laws against drunk driving, but they don't keep all intoxicated motorists off the roads. New statistics show a huge increase in...

Easter holidays off to a chaotic start

As many as 90,000 airline passengers expecting to fly out of Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen on Friday were met with a chaotic start to...

Snow paralyzed Oslo and beyond

Oslo's bus system shut down, trams weren't running, some trains stood still and Norway's gateway airport at Gardermoen, north of Oslo, finally had to close....

‘White-out’ over southern Norway

UPDATED: There were "white-out conditions" over most of southern and eastern Norway Thursday morning, with lots of snow and wind resulting in numerous traffic accidents...
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