This Small City Metro is Bigger than Yours | Oslo Metro Explained
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- Oslo is a small city, and yet it has a rather large metro system with over 100 stations. The metro can take you skiing, to beautiful scenic lakes, and to vibrant urban spaces, all every few minutes. Come with us to learn all about the Oslo Metro!
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Spelling mistakes can never get past my sharp-eyed viewers... Fixed!
Pro tip Reece: Intentionally leave some spelling mistakes in your videos. There are always people who‘ll correct them. How? By commenting under your videos which drives interaction up.
@Zaydan Naufal The Porsche Design Studio was founded by the same person, but is a separate part of the corporation from the car manufacturer. They have their own designer wares, but also offer design services to other brands.
@Zaydan Naufal The MX3000 is designed by Porsche Design Studio. Plus the trains were build from 2003 and entered service in 2007.
Really cool video, Just one thing, it would be cool if you included a quick look at the tram, Bus, regional Train and ferry network. Good video 👍
What's the difference between a fjord and a cjhevy and a cjhrysler?
Riding the Metro to go cross-country skiing in Oslo and finding it PACKED with Norwegians and their skis , was a life experience that really cemented my love of transit and belief in what it is capable of.
Don't forget that we also use the Metro as a skilift for Korketrekkeren, the old-style Olympic luge tracks that is open for the public.
i love this.
@@tomfredrikblenning9054 "sledge-lift" for our snowracers or other sledges^^
@@tomfredrikblenning9054 or downhill mtb riders during summer season
Yeah dude, we take the subway up to the ski place in the summer season with our bikes and ride downhill, and then we end up at the bottom of the hill where the sub i located, so we go right back up.🤩🤩🤩
I guess most Norwegians from other parts of the country will giggle a bit at the forest hills outside Oslo being referred to as mountains in this video 😉
Having lived in Oslo for a couple of decades, after partially growing up in places like Rjukan and Sykkylven, I snicker every now and then for exactly those reasons. :D
I giggle, and I was born here. I would call them hills.
@@haraldsnnichsenkrogsrud4539 me too, totally agree! I've always lived here, and certainly don't think of Oslo as a mountainous area. But as far as the point of the video goes, I suppose the woodland areas being protected serve the same purpose as steep mountains would, in that the city expands in certain directions only!
Heh, I'm from Iceland and wouldn't call this hills mountains. :)
Dont even need to be outside Oslo. I'm basically Oslo native and think the same
Fun fact about Valkyrie Plass Station: It was built by accident.
While digging from Majorstuen to Nationaltheatret, the clayish ground made 800 cubic meters of Valkyriegata and Bogstadveien collapse into the tunnel. HKB, the company that ran the western network back in 1912, had a plan to place a station in between Majorstuen and Nationaltheatret, but the collapse had created a tunnel entrance, so they decided to build a station at Valkyrie Plass, which was opened in 1928 along with Nationaltheatret.
It was closed in 1985 due to only having room for 2 coaches on the platform at the same time, while also being very close to Majorstuen.
I always love comments like this learning little facts such as this one!
Now I'm thinking of Bob Ross.
Extra note for this one: At Christmas, for example, they add extra decoration on the station for trains passing through, and sometimes even people playing music.
@Zaydan Naufal Because the street above was named Valkyrie Street.
@Zaydan Naufal They are angel like creatures for fallen soldiers, which makes them iconic in portrayals of war and death, two major cultural topics.
As an Oslo native, your references to mountains are absolutely adorable 😂 great video, though, and it helped me see some of the impressive parts of the system that I kind of take for granted!
Ække du fra Bærum 🤨
@@magnushanesand3492 Tror du fyren vet hva Bærum er?
@@Kennethh94 Veldig lite bæring av deg å anta at folk ikke kjenner Bærum
Yeah, they are not seen as mountains here, merely hills. But of course compared to The Netherlands they might seem like Mount Everest
@@magnushanesand3492 Abakus Bærum obsession moment
As an American, the fact that a train network like this exists *alongside* trams and high-speed rail is unbelievable...
We take this for granted.
norway dosen't have long distance high speed rail 🙃 just short sections built to hsr standards out of oslo mostly for capacity reasons
as a green bay resident our terrible bus service makes it faster to walk from my high school to my house than to ride the bus, as i would have to go from east side all the way to west side back to east lol
The ticket system here is also ingenious and easy to use. I went visiting London last weekend and it honestly baffled me how much more troublesome the ticket system was.
In Oslo you can dowload an app, buy a ticket that lasts for either one hour, a whole day, a week, or a month, and just keep the ticket on your phone. Then you can just get onto the metro without having to show your ticket to any machine or officers. There is a fine of about 1000nok for using public transport without a ticket, and ticket inspections occur fairly commonly.
Best of all is that you can use the same ticket for the busses, trams and trains in Oslo, as long as you travel without zone 1, which is all of the city of Oslo and a bit more.
I started as a T-banefører (driver) for Sporveien/Ruter back in 2008. I got addicted to it, so I took it one step further and became a lokfører (train driver) on the national railway network driving for VY. Absolutely love the job.
I wanted to get into the train driving profession back when I first realized my initial university plans were going to fail, but then the train driver's school updated their criteria to specifically require the math that I failed in highschool. The silver lining is that I'm having a lot of fun pursuing music, which really was my plan C :P
I've lived in the parisian suburbs my entire life and I have extensively taken the metro for the past 8 years. Two years ago, I went to Oslo for 6 months as part of an internship. I lived ten min walking from Oslo Sentrum. I immediately noticed the metro system, as I took it every day, even on the week-ends. It's regular, not as packed as Paris' RER can be, can take you very far and the smartphone tickets are super convenient !
Funniest thing was taking skis and sledges in the metro, though.
The footage made me a little nostalgic !
The best part (as someone who lives in Oslo) is that wherever you can't take the metro, you can take a bus or the tram. There really isn't any *real* need to expand the metro system anymore than the plans they already have in place. And then there's the walkability of the city, you can walk or cycle everywhere, with ease. There's never a long way from one stop on the bus/metro/tram to where you need to be - so walking is the main way people move around from place to place. And I love it here.
Matter of opinion and where you live. I live in an area where sure you can walk, bike or take the car, el bikes or whatever, but we live smack in the middle of all the public transport. Especially there should have been a metro station so that we who live here can easily get to Majorstua, and Grünerløkka, without having to pass through down town/city centre, or go to some station further away. Annoying.
Waited a while for this one. Oslo is my favourite place to travel to and I love using the public transport there. Not only with the T-Bane, but with the same ticket, you can use the trams, buses and the boats. And all of the tram lines also meet at one point, outside Oslo Sentral, with the Oslo Bus Terminal outside the other end of the station too. So everything works so well together. It’s a breeze to get around and connect.
And in addition the same ticket is valid on the ferries to several islands in the inner Oslofjord.
Have you been to Tokyo?
Worth noting that the Ticket is not usable on Flytoget, which featured in this video.
The ticket (valid for 1 hour) is also valid past 1 hour, provided you got on your last mode of public transport within that 1 hour window :) Which is really cool.
@@druchii89 "Worth noting that the Ticket is not usable on Flytoget, which featured in this video." But it is valid on any other kind of train
@@Hvantmiki basic fare ticket is only within zone one, so if you take train, busses, or ferries out of that area you ned to pay more. but it is still plenty flexible within all of Oslo for sure
Oslo definitely punches way above its weight in transit. It has an excellent tram network too, and a local train network that is more extensive than what you'll find in many larger cities. It's also worth noting that most train and metro stations away from the city center are served by feeder bus services which means that there is practically no part of Oslo that isn't well served by transit.
The bus line to the whole Oslo region is way not talked about enough
Nice to see a video of Oslo by you! One fact that I find quite impressive about the network here (being a railway engineer myself) is the amount of trains they manage to run through the central tunnel: It is 32 trains per hour even in off-peak hours. And that all with a quite basic signalling system, one-side platforms, no platform doors, driver operation... And it works! How often did I hear that to have a less then 2-minute-headway you need so much special things, driverless operation and whatsoever. But no - Oslo is the proof!
This definitively makes me think of Frankfurt and Munich whose S-Bahn tunnels are often a source of delays (it's 24 and 30 TPH). Admittingly, they do use up to 200 metres long trains which limits the capacity a bit and their networks aren't entirely segregated from other (particularily non-regional) trains so any delay which happens on these lines will affect the whole tunnel.
Well, given how often the signalling system commits sudoku and needs to be fixed... :p
I am assuming by 32 trains you are referring to the eastern tunnel? Since the tunnel as a whole is limited by the western tunnel with a capacity of 28 trains per hour.
They are gonna upgrade the signaling system in the oslo metro to a CBTC system in the coming years. That's gonna increase the capacity from 28-32 trains an hour to 36 trains an hour! Gonna be great
To be honest the central tunnel works pretty well, but it is now absolutely packed, and since all lines run through this tunnel, no further capacity can be added. And it's a complete disaster every time something goes wrong or they need to complete some maintenance on this tunnel.
Many of those "holes" you mention in T-bane service are that way because they are well served by the "Trikk" - Oslo's tram system.
One of my favourite parts of taking the metro when I worked in Oslo was planning ahead exactly which door I should stand at in order to get out where I needed to go as efficiently as possible.
Shout out to my people at the farthest door going for the Vaterlandspassasjen exit at Jernbanetorget!
Faen ja dette er for viderekomne T-banepassasjer, jeg elsker å gå inn bakerst eller forrerst avhengig av hvilken retning jeg skal til Storo fra
I second that!
@@Misvaerost En helt nødvendig strat når man skal av på Storo
jeg gjør det helt automatisk nå både til og fra jobb! hadde besøk av noen kompiser som blei imponerte av noe jeg bare gjør av instinkt hahaha
Finally, a video from MY city! I could even see my house in one clip. By the way, a new tunnel is being build between Brynseng and Hellerud to avoid the sharp turn close to Høyenhall.
You know, it’s not a giant city when!
@@RMTransit And nothing we Norwegians like more than to see videos about ourselves. But great video, the metro system is quite good indeed. And Oslo will also go fully electric with it's buses in a few years. New trams are also being put into service now. And the city ferries are also going electric. The city government is also trying to outright ban ICE cars within city limits in 2030. A lot of streetparking is also being replaced with bike lanes and they are experimenting with more car free zones.
@@rowaystarco Most Norwegian comment
could see the apartment I used to live in as well in the video
@@rowaystarco They are also reducing the amount of departures with public transport, as electric is now costing too much.
They're incentivising bikes in winter - which... is interesting.
I spent a month in Oslo, and the metro system was fantastic. The trams were also pretty great to use
I visited Oslo a few years ago and stayed near the end of the T1 line. taking the train into the city each day and admiring the view is still one of my favourite travel memories
A video on the Rotterdam metro would be nice. It's the largest and oldest metro system in the Netherlands. And it's quite unique; one part was originaly a train line and is now metro with special tracks for cargo rail. Another part has level crossings (which may be a bad thing). And most of it uses third rail, but one section uses overhead wires. (this section is part of RandstadRail, another interesting network)
Chicago, Oslo, and Rotterdam. The only cities with metros with grade crossings
I second this. And the interesting thing is that the RandstadRail line (line E) was also a train line, to be more precise: the first electric train line opened in the Netherlands (the revolutionary Hofpleinline, opened in 1908 and far ahead of it’s time). The line was closed in 2006 after almost a hundred years in service connecting Rotterdam Hofplein (the first station sadly doesn’t exist anymore since it was bombed by the Germans, so was a giant part of Rotterdam) to Den Haag Hollands Spoor (station still exists in all its glory as it was back then) and Scheveningen Kurhaus (the hotel named Kurhaus on the beach still exists, the station doesn’t exist anymore). In 2010 the major part of the line in between what is now Melanchthonweg station (back then a station called Rotterdam Kleiweg was located somewhat further in the direction of Rotterdam) and Den Haag Centraal station (the trains stopped there from 1975 onwards instead of Den Haag Hollands Spoor) was put back in use again for line E of the Rotterdam Metro and the part between Leidschendam and Den Haag Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië also became part of the Zoetermeer Stadslijn (which itself was a train line but became a regional tram line later on and due to that the stations in that part of what was the Hofplein line have 2 platforms with different heights on each side to let the trams and metros be able to stop there). The part to Scheveningen was broken down and so was the station. Really interesting history
@@robk7266 didn't know so little metro's have no level crossing, when I visited my grandma in Cappelle aan de IJssel (eastern Rotterdam) we had to cross multiple level crossings so I tought it was pretty common.
@@Lunavii_Cellest same. Living in Chicago, I thought it was normal for metro systems to have level crossings. This is is why is always thought the distinction between light rail and rapid transit is blurry
Rotterdam will definitely happen . . . Eventually!
When I visited Oslo I took the 5 all the way to the terminus at the lake for a lovely hike. Given how expansive and well run it is, I never would have guessed it to be a 'small 'city. Also, the HSR from the airport is fabulous, as was taking the train towards the western coast -- many tunnels indeed! :)
Many people in the comments point out that Oslo is an expensive city. But transit is not: A 30 day ticket is 814 NOK (78 euros), and it includes the metro, the tram, the bus, as well as the ferries to some of the islands in the Oslofjord. Stockholm is actually more expensive at 88 euros (but it covers a larger area)
Also includes the heavy rail that goes through the city, as long as you don't travel past the city limits.
They recently lowered the prices, so an adult ticket is 499kr (less than 50€) and student tickets for 299kr!
@@astridhallset3179 unfortunately, 499kr for a monthly ticket is just a limited one time offer until 15 December. At least you can choose when you want to activate the discounted ticket itself, meaning if your current monthly ticket still is valid, you can still buy a discounted one and activate it later.
You should also do a video on the rail network in and around Oslo. Norwegian railways runs more trains on double track then any other country. Up to 32 trains an hour (each direction) on parts of the network.
The amazing, comfortable, rarely packed, and clean metro system of Oslo definitely played a part in my decision to settle there!
Fun fact: Line 3 Kolsås is the only metro line going outside of fare zone 1, going into zone 2v in Bærum. Geographically the line is in zone 1 to Bekkestua and then zone 2v from Gjønnes station, but it was decided that the whole metro network would be in zone 1. That means if you travel from Bekkestua to Gjønnes (just one stop) by bus, you would have to pay for two zones, but with the metro you only pay for one.
the bærum moment when it'd be more practical to take the metro from kolsås to gjettum instead of the bus but you only have a 2v ticket
Skulle vært lov med både 1 og 2v billetter på den delen as
Line 2 Østerås too...
@@noileyys2249 Nope, Østerås is in Zone 1
@@axeljonsson151 Østerås, Lijordet and Eiksmarka is in Bærum, a 2v zone. If you take the metro, you only need zone 1, but if you take the bus, you'd need the zone 2 ticket.
A million people. "Small". That's ... insane. I mean, I could see it from someone living in Hongkong or Tokyo, perhaps, but otherwise ...
Oslo ranks as the 947th largest city in the world, close to Cancun in Mexico, Bremen in Germany and Gold Coast-Tweed in Australia. So yes, quite small
@@TheShortStory How about if you rank it from the bottom up instead, starting with the smallest town. All of a sudden Oslo isn't so small anymore. It's all a question of how you frame it.
@@TheShortStory You have to compare the urban areas, not the populations of the administrative cities. Oslo as a city has a population of about 650000 and as an urban area has a population of 1.5 million. On the other hand there are some asian cities where several urban areas have been regrouped into one administrative city. Its not really comparable
It’s all relative, it’s the hook for the video and not unreasonable in the scale of the whole world Imo
as a norwegian-italian raised in Oslo, I would call Oslo a "faux" big city compared to the rest of Europe. The city borders span a big area (480 square kilometers) with a current population of around 700 000 people. Making it seem rather big on paper, but the city center itself is rather small.
I live in Holmenkollen, near the westernmost end of metro-line 1, and I agree. That metro-line is easily the prettiest of the metro-lines in Oslo!
It’s also the most crowed
Line 5 looks just like something I’d build in Cities:Skylines
Oh no! Don’t do that!
If you’re going to make a full video on the Glasgow Subway, you really should also cover the city’s suburban trains - it’s got the second biggest network in the UK and two lines pretty much function like an S-bahn.
The only issue with the Glasgow suburban is the fact that the lines don't have clear names, and you have oddly low frequency connections as the central portion in the west divides at Partick. I used to live in Milngavie, and coming from Stockholm, the network was sorely lacking, infrequent and expensive with very confusing service patterns.
Yeah living in Glasgow it’s frustrating how little seems to be done to improve the trains - hopefully the council actually follows through on its promise for a Metro (although knowing the state of the UK I’d be surprised if it happens)
@@rossbryson8720 Glasgow system is stuck in 1990 in terms of service and ticketing. It’s just a rail network rather than a metro, in fact they debranded the spt and took it away. There is a Clyde metro plan but at best we will see a tram along the fast link and branding.
Neat video! It is true that parts of the city center are underserved by the metro, but on the other hand the tram and bus connections are excellent!
Yep! But better Metro coverage would still be good!
@@RMTransit The new city tunnel was actually a political issue as well, as the right wing (not USA right wing level) wanted the the new tunnel to be built further north, covering areas like Ullevål (currently one of the hospitals) and Sagene. 57% of voters preferred that alternative as well, over only 23% supporting the alternative that they ended up going with. That being said, the current national Labour/Agrarian party government is cutting in public transport support, so a new Oslo tunnel is probably far into the future.
@@rowaystarco Well... 100% of the contracted consultants who evaluated the various options recommended the current solution, both because of ground conditions, listed buildings near stations, and the extremely sharp turn that would be required at Majorstua to get to Ullevål.
Polls are good, but I leave tunnels up to the engineers :)
@@RMTransit do keep in mind that the metro - which used to be called "the suburban rail" - is primarily designed to get people in and out of the suburbs. The Eastern and Western lines didn't connect until 1987, and even then joint service did not begin until 1993 because Western lines had overhead power while Eastern lines had third rail.
You could move from one end of the city to to the other in about 30 minutts!
Thanks for doing this! Oslo is a great city, but really expensive... But I'm always impressed by the clean and nice metro system! Love from Finland 🇫🇮
Northern Europe has lots of great transit and reminds me of Vancouver, it’s perfect!
@@RMTransit So true!
Fun fact about the split between the metro and tram after Jar station: the tram line has approximately 100 metres of 3rd rail, and the metro has approximately 100 metres of catenary. This is in the odd case of a set making the wrong turn, securing power for backing up and getting back on the right track.
As someone from the Tampa area, having more than one short trolley line used mostly by tourists in the downtown area would give you a bigger metro system than mine 😅
You might just have one trolley line, but it's real cozy. I had great time in Ybor. Worth the free ride
I have lived in Bekkestua and Jar, two of the stations you mentioned in this Veideo, most of my life. And i am truly impressed by your extencive research on this. I could not find anything wrong with any of your facts, and even learned something new here and there. Great work!
Thank you for making such an informative video about my hometown Metro! Having grown up in Oslo, I remember when east and west metro got connected at Stortinget, first they were connected but no trains ran east to west, it was the last stop of either side since the two systems were so different, it was a big deal when they finally started having through service - took a while before all lines went east to west. The rolling stock was on quite old trains (east side on trains built in the late 60s early 70s) until the new trains came out, the east rolling stock on a big mismatch of rolling stock, ranging from old teak trains from the 20s/30s to some built in the 80s. I love that they are building more, my current home town of Minneapolis is many times larger than Oslo, has no metro, barely has light rail (2 lines, 3rd under construction, 4th proposed) and horrible bus service, and is easily a 3x larger metro area than Oslo..
Thanks so much for watching, it’s a really nice and unique system. That’s a great example of continuous improvement!
For sure! Initially Majorstuen was the ending station for the west side trains, and there was two central train stations in Oslo, Oslo West (for westbound trains) and Oslo East (for eastbount trains) then they built the railroad tunnel through Oslo, and opened Nationalteateret station for the trains and built the tunnel for the west side trains to terminate there (along with the now defunkt station) I think around the same time or maybe sooner, they had opened what is now Stortinget station, but it was called 'Sentrum' station, for the east bound trains to terminate at. There was leaks in the station that was discovered, so after some years of operation, it was closed, and they rebuilt it as Stortinget, with the plan to integrate west and east trains in the future. Its cool to dig into the history of how it came to be what it is today.
I grew up on the subway in Oslo, it was my main way to get to downtown, to my grandmothers house, and later to high school.
Havnebanen, Oslo Port Line is also worth mentioning, I think - going 2.2 km mostly above ground between Oslo East and Oslo West, through the city, many places on public streets, stopping traffic, even going across the City Hall Plaza. It allowed for moving freight trains between the eastbound and westbound lines, and any time a train went across, it had to go at walking pace, for safety - and a man would be walking in front of the train, ringing a bell to notify people. This line was closed in the early 80s.
Great video, thank you for covering this beautiful city! Please do another video about the Oslo tram system if possible.
Oslo has an equally impressive tram network that was briefly touched on in the video-- would be interesting to get back to in-depth when you get the chance. Thanks for introducing yet another city to us!
I had the same thought watching the video about Stockholm's metro back then. These cities don't rely on a single type of transit. What's more important for us who live here are what options we have for the trips we want to make. I mean, if I see a stop in the metro system for some ~20 minutes I just pick a different route instead involving the light rail with an extra transfer.
A bad thing about the trams is that they are getting old. And the "newer" trams turned out to be so big and heavy that they couldn't even be used on all lines. Luckily they have now started replacing the trams with brand new ones. They are lighter and have higher capacity. But the biggest problem is that the trams quite often get stuck in traffic, as they lack their own lanes many places. So the metro is to prefer if you need to go somewhere fast. But the mix is great for sure. It's also great that more and more of the buses are going fully electric too.
@@rowaystarco not to mention, the new ones are so noisy. Always beeping and booping whenever something's happening.
@@stale2665 I think they are working on it. It's still new and being tested. I'm confident it can be sorted out.
@@stale2665 that would have been the case with the existing ones if we were to have kept them. It is annoying, but thats the way it has to be.
Thank you for doing Oslo. I heard once that we have the most metro per capita, and thought the city might be interesting for you. And lo and behold you mentioned just that fact. 😁
The thing I have realized living in Norway and close to Oslo, is that we have Trains that travel from everywhere in the country and feeds into Oslo Sentralstation, you can then choose to go on the metro to travel furthur out of the city or use the trams that travel all around the city center and the greater oslo area.
I for example could grab a 2 hour train from my city, then jump on the metro for 20-30 minutes, before taking a short tram or bus ride.
I’d love to see you do a video on Dublin’s transit system. It’s about to go through a major overhaul and could be worth exploring
It was so cool to learn more about the metro ive been taking all my life and seing the history behind them, great video :)
Impressive high speed rail from airport. Should be a high priority
anywhere. Nice mix of service and adapting what is there. Thanks great
Truly a very good information about Oslo T-bane system. Big hugs from Oslo, Norway🌹
Thank you for making a video on the Oslo metro! I never thought that our small city metro would make it to your videos, but I am so happy to see it!
A possible contributing factor to our metro being so extensive for our size could be that it is the most reliable mode of transport during winter, especially when the snow arrives over night and creates a complete chaos for regular surface vehicles, due to the rather reactive attitude towards changing to winter tyres.. This would typically happen twice per year, around the arrival of the first heavy snow of winter, and then when the snow makes a surprise return in the early spring after we thought that it had gone away for the season.
That's one thing that always surprised me too: we know that show will come, we have excellent weather forecast (yr), and still cars and busses get surprised by snow.
Twice a year, every year.
@@Wolffjord we can go one more day without changing, just one more day... ;)
had the joy of using this system. it's so smooth and well functioning
Here in Newcastle, we're a city of just around 300,000. We have a pretty extensive metro for such a city. I absolutely love it 💛
So.........how about it RMTransit?
Sure, we aren't known for building metros in UK, but everyone knows Newcastle is bigger than that! You might as well say the City of London has less than 10,000 people.
The Metro covers all of Tyneside, as well as Sunderland now. Population around 1 million.
A video on how you would expand a large metro system, like the NYC subway and regional rail system, would be really interesting to see as well. 👍
been waiting for this video for so long ❤
Thank you for doing my Home town. It’s a nice and compact city, though the north and east is not all mountainous. It is basically just forest protected almost as a natural reserve. You are not allowed to build within this zone, which helps shape the city.
Also another interesting fact is that there are boat routes in the fjord to recreational islands which is part of the public transport of Oslo. These are heavily used during shiny summer days!
Most metro routes have 7.5 min frequency Mon-Sat until 7pm and otherwise 15 min routes. When I was young the services was reduced to 30 min routes after 10pm.
Oslo do also have an extensive heavy rail commuter service with some services running 30 min. The commuter rail service some areas of outer Oslo and the nearby cities which is a part of the Oslo metro area!
As a traveler and lifelong transit rider, I absolutely loved this. I love to see well connected cities that aren't built around cars.
A friend of mine worked as a train operator on the T-Banen. They run a fairly tight ship. All new train operators are gifted an expensive, high quality watch that automatically syncs the time down to the milliseconds by radio signal.
I work as a train driver at Sporveien and as a Trafikkleader. This is not true 😅 At least not anymore in the past 5 years ish if it was done before
This was about 15 years ago, and I saw the watch. @@MegaKuchikirukia
@Republic3D aha that makes more sense i dont believe those are given anymore 🥲
Great video! I remember spending a few weeks in Norway in 2003 & being very impressed with the transit system there. I used buses & commuter rail the most as my friend there was in a far flung suburb to the east (Siggerud), but the system was fantastic, comfortable, & reliable. I loved Oslo Central Station & especially the ride on the 1 line up to the Olympics sites on the mountain.
So much have changed since 2003! It's about time for a new visit!
@@MrJBacon you are very right about that. I also visited my buddy there in 2017, but the only transit I used that trip was a city bus from Siggerud into Oslo & a train from downtown up to Gardermoen.
Norway is a wonderful country & I look forward to going back!
I’m impressed with your excellent pronunciation of station/tram stop names!
As a native, I take the metro regularity. I still watched through the whole video and found it informative and educational :). Well made and researched!
Cool video! I was a driver for 1 year for the Oslo matro! Impressive system !
Congratulations on 150K!!!!
Thanks :)
Very impressed with the service up into the mountains. It's worth it for the views alone.
You hit all the trivia I hope you would talk about, and I learned a few new things.
The way you sound the names of the stations makes me wonder if I have ever been there before, sounds so exotic hahaha
- from Oslo with love
It's so weirds watching this video. I live in Norway and use out metro system everyday. You nailed it. Great video!
I love Oslo metro and Oslo in general. It's super cool to take a metro train into mountains.
Since Small and Bizarre Transit systems seem to be a reoccurring theme in this channel recently, I think that taking a look at Athens' metro, tram, trolley and Commuter Railway networks would totally worth it.
Oslo is a beautiful city, and I would love to go back. I used to go there regularly in the '80s and didn't know that Fornebu airport had closed as I flew in and out of it on many occasions.
Things have changed a lot since the 80s! You're welcome back!
I will never get how a city of a million can be small, but I guess thats because I grew up in a "village" of 500.
I mean, there are cities like Nürnberg that still have a sizeable metro system @500k population so it isn't even particularly small looking at cities with metros.
We are an exception, and I learned that pretty late. Always thought this would be normal.
I grew up in a village of 300, moved to the city featured in this video some years ago, and I still consider it a relatively small city. The again, I have traveled to several of the biggest cities in the world, so maybe I'm just a bit jaded.
I really like big, dense cities.
I love this amazing channel!!
Very good summary of the state of affairs here! And yes, the wooden platforms still make me smile after 10 years living here.
Been to olso in March and was hugely impressed by their metro system. Especially Line 1 to Frogersternen. Taking a metro up a hill to go hiking in a ski resort..
Oslo's metro makes me think that someone had a model railway system with lots of different rolling stock, crossovers and tunnels, and then just made it life-sized.
Well good for him
Well, thanks from Oslo!
As now I lived in Oslo for 11 years, I must say that the metro line is pretty impressive. It makes it possible for people from different part of the city meets easily. Years ago Oslo was smaller than now. And as the city gets bigger and many people immigrate here, they had to come with many more stations and lines. Especially it’s important for a country with a lot of snow and especially higher parts of West and East can be hard to walk during winter and it can also be difficult for drivers living in such «near-hill» places. Therefore the metro line helps a lot for people to get to the city centre.
They also changing the trams, the old ones being replaced with new trams and they had to dig up the entire city to recreate the tracks and stations for the new trams. The public transportation is good in every way, only the price make it a bit sour 😅😅
I live in Oslo and I remember being so confused at the subway system in New York when I visited earlier this year, I got lost like three times, probably stared at the line maps for an hour and almost fell over when it started, 10/10
great video as always, a video about the transit network of rennes (France) could be nice as it's a 450k metro area with 2 metro lines which is huge for it's size.
I’ve just transmit your superb video to the Mayor of Quebec City in Canada, the don’t have no transport on rail! They are planing to get tramway line but with big opposition 😮
I think with the informations from your video could be a an interesting signal for planification for the future, to start now.😊
Nicely done! 👌🏼👍🏼
I love that you made a video about my city! I've been toying about making a TH-cam channel about the stations for a while now... did you know that out of 101 current stations, only 17 are subterranean? And 100 1/2 of them are wheelchair accessible, only the platform heading east at Frøen has step access.
Frøen is so tiny though, and the station is built somewhat oddly (seems perched on the side of a massive hill).
Those stairs are sketchy in winter too! (Metal, if i recall correctly - super slippy!)
As a Norwegian citizen living outside of Oslo, I learned a ton! Visiting Oslo as a child I was sometimes confused about the difference between the metro and the tram. Although I've since learned the key differences this video was really informative. For instance I never knew it is designed by Porsche and manufactured by Siemens. I never much appreciated the metro and thought it looked grey and boring, but this video made me consider using it mindfully on my next visit.
The new trains are good, but like you I prefer the red color of the old ones to the current boring gray. But ultimately the functionality is what matters.
Notable thing, btw: the revamp of line 3 also ended up closing a number of small stations. The trams, meanwhile, previously only ran to Jar, but the track that could accomodate them was extended during the revamp as an experiment.
You should talk about Rennes. It's the smallest city in the world with 2 automated light metro lines, in the north of France. They managed to reimburse the first line quicker than expected, which is positively surprising for a public transit project, as far as I know.
It’s quite impressive what they have done for the population. Very good example of efficiency and high quality of service that’s very resourceful
Takk!
As a citizen of Oslo, this was a nice run-through :)
Well done on getting pronunciation right. You've clearly done some work getting it right and for the vast majority you were spot on.
"Fly to get service" ... well that one was funny. I never thought about how this name could be interpreted in English. The name of the airport express train is Flytoget, but it has indeed nothing to do with a train to get a flight. Norwegian Fly is similar to the English Fly.; Tog is Norwegian for train, and with the "et" at the end of toget it can be translated "the train". The Airport Express Train
Something that is also quite awesome about the Oslo public transit system is the synergy between Metro, Trams, Busses and even ferries. For a city that is quite cramped there is a very well developed system of bus lines so that busses seldom are stuck in traffic, even during rush hour and you are never far from some kind of stop.
This makes it also that you can buy a single ticket and explore the islands in the oslo fjord by ferry and then hop on the metro line and have it deposit you right by the vast forests in the north or east of the city.
Thanks for a great video on my home town! I'm writing this sitting on line 4! Indeed, many people up in the Western hills call it "the tram". As for the comment you made about the routing of the new downtown tunnel, this was a matter of hefty debate in the last local elections.
The opposition wanted a line which covered more dense areas further north, however the incumbent red-greens argued that a thorough survey of geological conditions had been made and stated the alternate route would increase the risk of cost overruns, including issues with tunnelling and station-building near listed historical buildings, hurting the project's political viability.
It's important to realize that the T-bane - which some old people still call the «suburb rail» - is not primarily for intra-downtown transit, but to allow mobility to and from suburbs. Of course, the downtown tunnel is a single point of failure for a very important system for the city, so redundancy is very desirable. It is also beyond capacity, constraining frequency on crowded suburban routes. This situation will be somewhat improved with the on-going introduction of CBTC, but it's still a bottleneck. They've also sometimes turned the 1 around at Majorstuen to free up downtown tunnel capacity.
Another fun anecdote about the subway system: Valkyrien Plass station was completely unplanned. It was only in service because the tunnel collapsed and they figured they might as well build a station in the hole they had to clear. With the system morphing from a tram to a subway station, the short distance between Majorstua and Valkyrien became increasingly counterproductive.
One future major change that will probably have to occur, is figuring out ways to turn the 37 and 20 buses into tram lines. They're by far the most-used bus route in the city.
But how would they solve "The Øya festival" with a line 20 tram? But yes I agree, a tram line on Ring road 2 would be a great idea. And could be easier than line 37 I think. Line 37 drives up some pretty steep roads at times.
@123obliv lmao I used to take 37 when I went to high school, from Oslo Bussterminal to Nordahl Bruns Gate, and there were a couple times back when electric buses were still a new thing where they struggled to go uphill from Arne Garborgs towards Nordahl Brun, had to walk a couple hundred meters extra a couple of times because they stopped and the driver told everyone to leave.
@@legendarypussydestroyer6943 They had some issues to begin with, but they work pretty good now. New vehicles/tech will always need an amount of time to be phased in. They also had trial runs with buses. What's clear is that the tech has imrpoved a lot.
@@rowaystarco Storm i vannglass, bare innstill linja de fire dagene Øya varer, eventuelt sett inn busser, det gjøres jo hyppig uansett
@@Misvaerost de fire dagene? Veien er stengte mye lengre enn det. Det er riggingen som er det store problemet. Men nå som Follobanen er ferdig, så kan de vel returnere til den originale Øya igjen? Det hadde jo vært et spennende løft for området og trolig gitt mindre støy til naboer også.
It is so funny to hear you describe the view from 1 as beautiful, as I just experience it impatiently waiting to get to the top so I can go skiing.
I love that I can use the metro to shuttle for downhill biking and to get into the forest here in Oslo. Bringing your bike on the metro is also free outside of rush hour.
I love the Oslo metro! I live next to Ensjø, the stop between Tøyen and Helsfyr so we get all but the 5 lines. Looks like the new tunnel might connect just before us too!
If I need to go anywhere where the 5 serves, a quick walk from my house is all I need to get to Tøyen (it is quite a steep walk, so I prefer walking to Tøyen but not back).
Haha, the way you pronounced Flytoget was kinda funny. I would translate it to The Airplane Train, but Fly To Get is a good compromise :)
I am so incredibly proud of Oslo’s transit system. I’m almost 25 and I’m only now getting my driver’s license because you can get around easily and quite quickly.
I went to visit Oslo this Summer for Tons of Rock, never got on the metro but their busses and trams work like clockwork and it's a gorgeous city too, as is the entire country
In an growing list of similarities with the Stockholm tunnelbana, Alvik station (in Stockholm) shares the same sort of tram cut out between the platforms, just like Bekkestua!
Really good video! So much detail packed into so little time!
One thing you should mention is that the public transit in Oslo is ridiculously cheap to use. Right now it’s around $80 for 30 days across all transit in zone 1 which is almost everywhere you would go.
Considering Norwegians earn a lot more than other countries, this is super cheap for them. And if you’ve ever been to Norway you will know how expensive it is for outsiders! So this is a really nice thing to have.
It’s also all done via one app “ruter” on your phone. It shares all transit in Oslo and it’s suburbs. You can even travel to the theme park with it.
Great vlog about my home town of Oslo. I live 300m from the Ensjø metro stop. I tell all people when they come to Oslo, the fastest way to get around town is below ground. The reason behind the former station of Valkyrie plass is that crew had a cave in 500m away from Majorstua station. Now you know. Keep up the good work. One other fact: the reason for the roomy subway trains is because the first subway line, the Holmenkollen line was 3m and so and so cms. When they merged with the other subway lines they kept the Holmenkollen standard with of the rail cars. Safe journey
That was a smart decision, roomy trains is always better.
I absolutely love Oslo, its the perfect city imo!
pretty solid video,i must say! i lived the first 30 years of my life in Oslo. i was born in an apartment with outside toilets,in 1978. ive always had a very close relationship with the t-banen,or just "banen" as we call it. it means something like the train.
thanks for a beautiful chance to reminess over my past. please let me know if theres anything you want me to tall you!
thanks for sharing! i love oslo.
Woooooo I love it!!
*Oslo:* The largest metropolitan area of the whole country, with 1.7 million pop.
*RM Transit:* _"Truly a small city"_ (11:32)
Friend of mine at uni lives in Oslo. She told me that one metro line (line 1 I think) has some very nice scenery, plus it terminates at a skiing resort!
1:30 new development areas, showing a picture from around 2010 where the highway was still above around and at the shoreside, while it was transformed into a housing and business district few years later. The highway goes underneath the port area. The above ground surface saw numerous modern buildings being built, like the "Barcode row", located right at a street with tram tracks in the median, bus lanes, bike lanes, and only one remaining lane per direction for individual car traffic
OSLO VIDEO FINALLYYYYYY
I think Nuremberg (Germany) is really well served, 3 U-Bahn lines, 5 Tram lines, 6 S-Bahn lines, ICE/IC connections nationwide along with one of the largest regional rail tarif zones in the country and bus lines all over the place, all for just over 500,000 people. Pretty nice if you ask me!
I might know the most spoiled person transit-wise if you consider the ratio of service provided and cost. Because of an error, the student ticket cost 2,07€ instead of 207€ in summer 2022. The operator VGN gave permission to use those tickets until May. And from June 1st, we had the 9€ ticket in all of Germany. So for like 11€ you could have travelled all around Mittelfranken basically, and later the whole country. And she lives near both Hauptbahnhof and Plärrer, which gives her access to all the train, subway and tram lines. And she's probably not even aware of it haha.
This is what you call a small city with amazing transit! The video is just about a medium city with also great transit...
The fascinating thing about the new tunnel is that its western section will be connected to the eastern section of the old one and vice versa. That way the metro ring will be converted into a pretzel. It's a little bit like the U2/U5 project in Vienna but with more transfer options between the tunnels.
Yey we were here in June, and although we used the Trikke more than the Metro, we did ride it on the final weekend to get out to our hotel. Was very impressed.
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