Public transportation, as you can tell, is phenomenal.\u00a0 The best part about public transportation in big cities is that you usually have to walk to get to the station.\u00a0 Several of these walks a day add up and people end up walking quite a bit.\u00a0 When I studied abroad in Norway, I lived north of Oslo, about a 1.5 hour walk.\u00a0 The T-bane <\/strong>brought us from our apartment to the center of Oslo in 10 minutes.\u00a0 However, it was a 10 minute walk from my apartment to the T-bane stasjon<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then once I arrived to the city, I would walk to where I wanted to go.\u00a0 That is the beauty of Oslo-pretty much everywhere you want to go in the city is within walking distance.\u00a0 Otherwise, there are busser <\/strong>(busses).<\/p>\n Lots of us students that lived a good walk from the city would get our exercise on fredag <\/strong>(Friday) and l\u00f8rdag <\/strong>(Saturday)\u00a0nights because the bars and clubs did not close until 2 or 3 which is far later than the T-bane <\/strong>ran (it’s last route was around midnatt<\/strong>) and to get a drosje <\/strong>was extremely expensive.\u00a0 So…..we walked.\u00a0 Vi gikk.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you do the math, you will figure out that we would arrive to our apartments around sunrise.\u00a0 But we would have gotten great exercise and worked off any potential headache for the next morning.\u00a0 It was great.<\/p>\n The last thing I will say about offentlig transport i Norge <\/strong>is that the facilities are well maintained.\u00a0 The tog <\/strong>is extremely comfortable.\u00a0 If I remember correctly, it is about an\u00a07 hour ride from Oslo to Bergen and it is pure comfort, much more comfortable than a plane.\u00a0 It is a fast, quiet, clean, and smooth ride.\u00a0 Bussene<\/strong> (the busses) are also very clean and comfortable.\u00a0 Drosjene<\/strong> are often Mercedes or BMWs, unlike in the U.S., where they are old beaters.\u00a0 Whichever option you choose to transport yourself from place to place in Norway will be a pleasant experience.<\/p>\n Who else wishes that the United States had not destroyed our passenger railway system years ago?\u00a0 I would love to be able to hop a tog <\/strong>from my house in Northfield 50 miles to Minneapolis.\u00a0 People used to be able to do that 50 years ago until we all decided we wanted to drive our own automobiles, get lazy, and develop obesity problems as a consequence.<\/p>\n Cheers to Norwegians and their offentlig transportsystem!<\/strong><\/p>\n \ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fantastic Norwegian public transportation system. We don’t need researchers to tell us that Europeans are healthier than Americans.\u00a0 We can walk down\u00a0a busy street and see the drastic physical difference between the majority of Europeans and the majority of Americans.\u00a0 Norwegians are not an acception to this rule.\u00a0 I remember when I first arrived…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2009\/02\/img_0115-350x263.jpg\")