Easter is normally one of the year’s biggest utfartsperioder. This year, there are, however, expected far less traffic, since the health authorities have asked Ola and Kari Nordmann to stay at home.
On Norges hovedflyplass the Friday before palm Sunday, it was empty terminals, no queues and few people to see.
– It is between 4000-5000 people that are flying into or out of Oslo airport today. On a usually large utfartsdag as this would over 90.000 passengers have traveled. There is a dramatic drop in the number of 90-95 per cent, ” says Joachim Westher Andersen, head of communications at Oslo Airport.
SETTING: The Oslo Gardermoen airport there were no queues, and get people to watch Friday morning. It is 90-95 per cent fewer travellers from the airport this easter compared with previous påsker, according to Avinor.
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There are laden with bowls in the disk at Bolleland Shell on the Espa. With and without chocolate, vanilla cream, cinnamon, raisins or caramel. However, customers are the few of.
– We should really have sold 13.000 bowls in the day, but now we are hoping that we can sell 2000. There are 70 to 80 percent decline, ” says the owner of the Bolleland, Morten Støen to NRK.
On a regular vintertrafikkdag has the popular petrol station on the E6 highway around 3000 customers. Now they barely clear 600 at the most. All permanent employees are laid off 50 per cent as a result of koronastengte Norway.
Påskerekorden is 17.376-selling bowls in one day. In the year, they will have to look far for hungry påsketurister when norwegians spend easter at home.
– It is very kjipt. Not fun that people lose their job, ” says Støen.
– KJIPT: the Owner of the Bolleland at Espa Morten Støen had hope that they would round their own bollerekord in the week of easter, since there are excellent conditions in the mountains and little snow in the lowlands. Instead, half of the employees laid off.
Photo: Vibeke Cederkvist / NRK May be more traffic than usual
It is quiet in the day, ” says head of department Nils Audun Way in the Norwegian public roads administration.
Vegvesenets five veitrafikksentraler monitors as regular traffic throughout the country during easter. According to the Way has road traffic in Norway in general has been halved in the last few weeks because of koronastenging.
– But we think that several is going to run some shorter day trips in the surrounding area in the week of easter, so it can generate a bit more traffic than normal in the quiet week, ” says Way.
the Norwegian public roads administration warns against the temptation to run the pedal to the metal on the empty roads.
We have received notice from the police, which has registered several cases of senseless driving with high speed. It is not lucky. You must follow the rules of the road, even though there is little traffic, ” says Way.
He recalls that one should not increase the pressure on the health by risking more traffic accidents.
NORMALLY: Usually it tends to drag themselves to the queues on the roads in the easter season. This image is from the E6 Eidsvoll in easter 2015
Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB scanpix From the full to the empty train
Vy have lost between 80 and 90 per cent of customers as a result of koronasituasjonen, estimates Åge-Christoffer Lundeby. The picture is from Oslo S in the last year.
Photo: Astri Husø / NRK
Train and kollektivselskaper has already reduced supply in the week of easter.
– Normally we would set up additional capacity at easter, but that is definitely not now, ” says communications manager Åge-Christoffer Lundeby in Vy to the NTB.
Vy have lost between 80 and 90 per cent of customers as a result of koronasituasjonen, estimates he.
at the same time preparing kollektivselskapet Routes that many are in the capital this easter.
On central stops and puts the Router into security to make sure that the people waiting on the next boat, bus or tram if there are many passengers on board from before.
In the newspaper reminds Router people that they should avoid to use public transport if they do not have to.
LONELY: There were few travelers at Oslo airport on Friday.
Photo: Kai Rune Kvitstein / NRK
