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Travellers given discount after transport turmoil

Stockholm transport authority, SL, has introduced a temporary discount on its monthly passes as compensation for weeks of transport turmoil.

Published: 26 February 2010 07:07 CET
Travellers given discount after transport turmoil

The authority has also taken out a series of full-page adverts in national newspapers and given a “full and genuine apology” to the hunders of thousands of travellers who have been affected by unsatisfactory train and metro services.

“It is a unique occurrence for large parts of the metro to lie still for several days. We are therefore taking the unique step of compensating SL’s faithful travellers by giving away a free week’s travel,” SL chairperson Christer G Wennerholm wrote in an article in Dagens Nyheter.

A 30 day travel card will now cost 530 kronor ($74), instead of 690. Those paying a reduced price will now pay 320 kronor. Travellers with year and season cards will also receive compensation.

National rail operator, SJ, continues to battle with several delays and other disturbances on main routes after the weekend’s snowfalls and cold temperatures, but the number of cancelled trains has dropped considerably.

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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