– We have received fairly clear signals that Friday’s weather will be worse than it was on Thursday. It will create challenges in public transport, says press contact Øyvind Strømmen at Skyss to Bergens Tidende on Thursday evening. He asks people to think about whether they need to travel on Friday. – We will work to get people out, but I can say with certainty that there will be delays, adjustments and detours on Friday, he says. He is supported by acting regional manager at Tide, Frank Aadland. – There are states of emergency and the driving conditions have gone from worse to worse, but we have some fantastic bus drivers who try to maintain the best possible route offer, says Aadland to the newspaper. Home education County director Bjørn Lyngedal informs Bergens Tidende that upper secondary schools in the old Hordaland county will have home education on Friday. – The main reason is to relieve the load on the road system and public transport, says Lyngedal to the newspaper. In Sogn og Fjordane, pupils must have regular physical education. School pupils who use public transport are kept at home on Friday to relieve the roads. Photo: Gerd Johanne Vatne Braadland / news Accidents and stoppages in public transport The storm has brought accidents in the county. In Åsane in Bergen, two buses collided at low speed. – The bus was supposed to brake, but started to slide. Then it hit the bus in front, says operations manager in the West police district, Morten Rebnord. The driver of the bus that started to slide had glass in his mouth, and was asked to go to the local emergency room. No passengers were injured. At 20:00 a bus was standing across Lyderhornsveien in Bergen, blocking both lanes. It thus stopped all traffic towards Lyderhornveien before the tow truck moved the bus, and the road was reopened. This is what the bus looked like after the accident. Photo: Bergen photo media A plow truck broke down on Askøy, closing county road 536 near Hanevik. at 10.30 p.m., a bus blocks Tellevikvegen in the Åsane district of Bergen. The light rail also experienced problems due to the large amounts of snow. An operating vehicle on the light rail broke down due to a circuit board that stopped working. This led to a shutdown of the entire line 1. – The circuit board is located under the carriage, and large amounts of snow and slush splash up in the carriage. The card can’t stand it well, says Geir Østerfeldt, acting managing director of Bybanen AS. The carriage has now been towed away, and the light rail is operating again, but with major delays. – It is very stupid that the card is placed on the bottom of the cart, but it is from 1989. – We are a bit vulnerable when it is winter like this here in Bergen, but fortunately it does not happen very often, says Østerfeldt. The service car broke down at the Florida light rail stop. Photo: Adrian Nyhammer Olsen / news Many traffic accidents In Møre and Romsdal, the police ask that people adjust their speed to the driving conditions due to challenging driving conditions in large parts of the district. – We have had five traffic accidents reported so far this afternoon and evening. There have been 13 people involved. Seven of them have been taken to the emergency department, and one to the emergency department, says operations manager Tove Holst-Dyrnes. There have been traffic accidents in Giske, Molde, Gjemnes, Aure and Sunndal in recent hours. Traffic accident caused a huge queue on the Gjemnessund bridge in Kristiansund. Photo: Tipser In Bergen, news station manager in Bergen rescue, Endre Svendsen, meets on assignment. He will rescue two cars that have ended up in the ditch in Grimseiddalen. Only a few hundred meters apart. – I have had a lot of assignments today. I’m actually a station manager who sits in the office, but on days like this everyone has to go out and work, says Svendsen. Soon this car will also be ready to drive on. Photo: Leif Rune Løland / news On standby Bergen, Askøy, Øygarden and Alver municipalities have sent press releases stating that they are on standby and following the situation closely. In Bergen, the agency for home-based services is increasing staffing. – Services that are necessary to safeguard life and health are given priority, while other assignments may be shortened or cancelled, says Berit Breistein, agency director of the Agency for Home-Based Services. Mayor of Øygarden, Tom Georg Indrevik says that the municipality is on alert. – The situation is demanding, and we prioritize life and health. We are particularly concerned that everyone gets the necessary home care, he says. In Askøy, it is a challenge to remove all the snow. – All plow crews are out at all times to remove the snow. It must not be parked in the pockets that have been plowed up along the roads. These are to be used as meeting places, not parking lots, the press release states. – If you find that your driveway has been given a new plow edge, we encourage you to shovel it away to the best of your ability, and not push it back out onto the road. Here we just have to help each other to the best of our ability, says Mayor Yngve Fosse. Kindergartens and primary schools are open in all municipalities. Plowing crews are out at all times to remove the snow. Photo: Gerd Johanne Vatne Braadland / news
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Warns of traffic problems in Bergen on Friday – news Vestland
