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Telemark Bilruter AS (1999-2021)/
Volvo 9700S 12,8m #59
27 december 2007 - Kviteseid, Kviteseidvegen (Rv41). A small bus in a big landscape. This bruck is descending the hairpins on the road between Vrådal and Kviteseid.
Author: Øyvind Berg
Author: Øyvind Berg
Comments: 9
27 december 2007 - Kviteseid, Vrådal, Telemark Bilruter garage and bus station. Two buses of the exact same type, just different generations. The oldest one is Carrus Star 302 on Volvo B10M and the newest one is Volvo 9700S on Volvo B12M.
Author: Øyvind Berg
Author: Øyvind Berg
Comments: 1
24 december 2009 - Kviteseid. Merry Christmas to all transport fans around Europe and the rest of the world! :-D Even the bus says so. "God Jol" is a local variant of "God Jul", which is the Norwegian saying for "Merry Christmas". This bus passing here at 13:10 was the third last bus today, and from now and until sunday there will not pass a single bus.
Author: Øyvind Berg
Author: Øyvind Berg
Comments: 6
26 march 2013 - Kviteseid, Kviteseidvegen. Distance from camera to bus: 1,55 km.
Author: Øyvind Berg
Author: Øyvind Berg
Comments: 1
30 december 2016 - Telemark Bilruter garage, Vrådal. 30 December 2016 was the last time ever that the bruck between Fyresdal and Seljord corresponded in Vrådal with the bruck (#57) heading towards Arendal. From 2017, travellers from Vrådal would have to change bus twice to get to Arendal because of new PSO contracts in Aust-Agder. Telemark Bilruter only go to Åmli, while the cargo service is only offered to Treungen.
Author: Øyvind Berg
Author: Øyvind Berg
13 february 2017 - Kviteseid bru, Kviteseid. The days of the brucks in Telemark are soon coming to an end. By 1 July 2019, new PSO contracts will take over, and for them, all the current brucks are way too old. (Maximum 25% of the buses can be Euro V, the rest must be Euro VI. The brucks are Euro II and III.) Also, all the local operators lost their contracts, so from then on the whole of Telemark will be operated by Nettbuss. This will not affect the commercial long-distance coach routes Haukeliekspressen and Telemarkekspressen, but essentially all the corresponding local routes will be lost. This also means that I can`t buy one ticket all the way between Drammen and Kviteseid anymore, but will have to buy a new one in Seljord. That is, if the local bus will even be an option. Some people in the Telemark county administration have suggested that all bus routes in upper Telemark that are not schoolbuses should be operated as on-demand routes, which means that one have to order it the day before. No matter how this turns out, it will guaranteed be a major setback to the bus traffic in the area.
Author: Øyvind Berg
Author: Øyvind Berg
Comments: 3