This is askøyværingenes new boat – NRK

the Boat from the island of Askøy is so popular that passengers have been left standing on the dock for some departures because it is full.

a Ride simply had not seen for themselves how great to meet the increased traffic would be when they moved the destination from the Nøstet to Strandkaien. First in January 2018, it would be possible with the new boat, said the company.

– It is not possible to replace the boat with the contract we have today. It must shut down first, ” said Shuttle director Oddmund Sylta to NRK in november.

Ready about four weeks

Now it has suddenly become possible anyway. Few weeks puts Norled into “MS Express” on the route between Kleppestø. It takes 296 passengers. Today’s “Teisten,” 195.

“We have received an enquiry from a Ride, and I can confirm that we have posed ourselves positive to replace the vessels,” says Bjørn Egil Søndenå, regionsjef for speedboats in Norled.

He estimates that it will take three to four weeks to get the boat ready.

“Express” is free and fits in the route. It must be done some technical changes on it before it can be put into operation, ” says Søndenå.

the Priority route

According to a note to fylkesutvalget for environment and transport from fylkesrådmann Rune egil haugsdal will will båtbyttet cost of nok 2.5 million for fylkeseide Ride. The money will be retrieved from the belønningsmidler that is given to strengthen the kollektivtilbudet in 2017.

a decade ago was the island of Askøy-route about to be discontinued. It cost too much money in relation to the number of passenger route operated, believed more central fylkespolitikere and bureaucrats.

Now is the route a “priority connection”, according to fylkesrådmannen. The boat reduces rush hour traffic over Askøybrua and helps to relieve the western innfartsåre.

Regelendring from the new year

There is a change in the regulation for public procurement that allows the Coach can now ask Norled about to put into a larger boat. Before the end of the year would this have been to be regarded as a substantial change in the anbudskriteriene, and the Ride could be risked damages for a breach of the rules for public procurement.

But the new regulation, which was put into effect from the new year, saying that such a change can be made in an existing contract as long as the primary purpose will not be changed, and so long as the price increase does not exceed 50 percent of the original contract value.

It was not successful NRK to obtain a Ride-director Oddmund Sylta Monday night.