Nine counties have been worse roads – NRK

It goes the wrong way in nine of the country’s counties. The report shows that “the Quality of the Norwegian road network: status of national and state highways.

Rambøll & Co. have measured veikvaliteten on behalf of the ngo Opplysningsrådet for road traffic (OFV). The result is collected in the report handed over to minister of transport and communication Ketil Solvik-Olsen on Tuesday, writes the newspaper Aftenposten.

Worst on the west coast

According to the schedule has Materialize the country’s best roads. Right behind follows the County, then the counties of Akershus and Oslo.

Hordaland ports on the bottom, followed by Sogn and Fjordane, while the Telemark is the third worst county in the veikvalitet.

No Norwegian counties live up to the Norwegian standard requirements for roads.

In the five years that have passed since the last time the Rambøll examined veikvaliteten, “nine counties have been more uneven and considerably inferior way,” said the report. Møre og Romsdal had the most negative development, followed by Oslo and Finnmark.

The other counties where veikvaliteten has been deteriorating for five years, is the county of Troms, Oppland, Nordland, Nord-Trøndelag, Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder.

the WORST IN the WEST: Hordaland, and Sogn and Fjordane has the country’s worst veistandard, and Møre and Romsdal has had the greatest deterioration in the past few years, according to the report.

Photo: Bjørn Erik Back Puffin

– There should not be such

– the Situation in many places is precarious and security concerns. It emphasizes with all clarity the need for the requirements of the standard on the state highways, so it is for state roads, says the OFV-director Øyvind Solberg Thorsen.

– It should not be such that the state and county roads are better for some than for others, depending on where they live, ” he says to Aftenposten.

the Decay is stopped

In 2010, it was used 10.6 billion. money from the Norwegian state roads, development, and skredsikring included.

Since the current government took over after the present coalition in 2013, the sum increased from 12.4 billion to the currently proposed 19,2 billion in 2017, i.e. almost a doubling since 2010.

According to the report has decay on Norwegian roads stopped up, and for 2017, it is set by almost three times as much to the planning of the Norwegian roads as it was in 2010.