Tag: transport

Calls roll in for a train line to Tromsø

Norway's Socialist Left party (SV) is calling "all aboard" for its proposal to build a long-sought train line to Tromsø in Northern Norway. The...

Motor homes roll over roads, ferries

They're everywhere this summer, the large recreational vehicles (RVs) known as bobiler in Norwegian. Never before have there been more of them rolling around...

Huge growth predicted for Dovre trains

The Swedish transport company SJ Norge is predicting as much as 45 percent passenger growth on the main train line between Trondheim and Oslo...

New chief takes the helm at Norwegian

It's official: Bjørn Kjos stepped down as chief executive of Norwegian Air on Thursday and handed over all operating responsibility to finance director Geir...

Agreement struck on new metro line

The counties of Oslo and Akershus have agreed on financing for a long-planned public transport line between Oslo and the redeveloped Fornebu area west...

Swedes win rights to major train lines

Norway's much-criticized state railway, recently ridiculed when it changed its name to Vy, has now lost the rights to run seven train lines including...

Blast ‘tragic’ for hydrogen vehicles

A major explosion at a hydrogen filling station west of Oslo on Monday has forced the shutdown of the few other such facilities currently...

Government intact, at least for now

"We have received very clear marching orders," Progress Party leader and Finance Minister Siv Jensen said late Wednesday, while confirming that her party will...

Complaints pile up over ‘el-scooters’

Critics claim they're 'littering the landscape,' being dumped into the fjord and often driven recklessly with police unable to take much punitive action. As...

Road tolls threaten the government

It couldn't have been the happiest of birthdays for Progress Party leader and Finance Minister Siv Jensen, who turned 50 on Saturday. Not only...
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