Mass Transportations in oslo

I am quite sure many of you have experience about Bus or Angkot driver who having bad deeds speeding in the road or they instinct to wait for the passengers until the buss become full that lead you to come late to destination, however if you guys come to Oslo, I am pretty sure such things are least likely to be happened, Today I’d like to share with you about mass transportations in Oslo, I hope it can help you to add some knowledge in your head that useful if someday you visit Oslo.
In Oslo, Mass transportations take a significant role to all Oslo citizens in their daily life, most of Oslo citizens use mass transportation for shuttling from place to place instead of driving a car  because they feel comfortable with mass transportation and the parking fee is immensely expensive. Unlike transportation system in some countries that don’t have time estimation display in their bus stops, in Oslo we can estimate when the bus or train will come, and of course, they will not wait until the bus become full that caused to come late.
In Norway, there are some companies that provide mass transportation such as Ruter, NSB, etc. however in Oslo most of Buses, Trem and T-bane (Subway), are maintained by Ruter company, in other words we don’t have to purchase numerous number of tickets to be able to ride all transportations in Oslo, we need only one ticket that valid for all transportation, cool huh ?

Purchasing tickets
Purchasing mass transportation tickets in Oslo is easy, we can purchase the tickets in some convenience stores that spread over the city, furthermore we can purchase it online using our cellular phone, the price for all mass transportations in Oslo are vary depending on which zone we are travelling to. However, if you want only travel around inside Oslo, the price is 30 Kroner (if we buy it previously in the stores) and 50 Kroner (if we buy it on the bus). even though the controller who check whether your ticket is valid or not are rarely come to the bus, I’d suggest not to do cheating because once you get arrested, you will have to pay about 1,5x price for the normal price.

Bus
It’s not hard to find bus stops in Oslo, we can find them along the road very easily, the system is basically same with they do in Indonesia, which they sort of BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), the buses stop in every stops to take in or drop off the passengers. Unlike bus in Indonesia, inside the bus you there are no conductors who  checking your ticket, most of passengers in Oslo having self awareness to not do cheating, they naturally beep the ticket when they enter the bus. it’s a must to press the red button in front of you before you take off the buss otherwise the buss won’t stop. I have a funny but annoying experience about this button when first time I come to Oslo last year,  I didn’t press the button instead of asking the driver to open the door, the driver then stop driving and walked over me, roaring while say pointing a button in front of me with Norwegian language. Well sorry sir, I am new here.


Trem
Trem is a sort of other transportation in Oslo that resemble like a tran which run in their own rail, we can ride this transportation with firstly waiting at the trem stops that usually situated close to the bus stops, the system is not different to the bus  

T-Bane

The Oslo Metro (Norwegian: Oslo T-bane or Oslo Tunnelbane or simply T-banen) is the rapid transit system of Oslo, Norway, operated by Oslo T-banedrift on contract from the transit authority Ruter. The network consists of six lines that all run through the city centre, with a total length of 80 kilometres (50 mi). It has a daily ridership of 221,917 (2011)^[2] with 95 stations of which 16 are underground or indoors. In addition to serving 14 out of the 15 boroughs of Oslo (all except St. Hanshaugen), two lines run to Bærum.
The first rapid transit line, the Holmenkoll Line, opened in 1898, with the branch Røa Line opening in 1912. It became the first Nordic underground railway in 1928 when the underground line to Nationaltheatret was opened. The Sognsvann Line opened in 1934 and the Kolsås Line in 1942. The opening of the upgraded T-bane system on the east side of town occurred in 1966, after the conversion of the 1957 Østensjø Line, followed by the new Lambertseter Line, the Grorud Line and the Furuset Line; in 1993 trains ran under the city between the two networks in the Common Tunnel, followed by the 2006 opening of the Ring Line. All the trains are operated with MX3000 stock. These replaced the older T1000 stock between 2006 and 2010.