Bussen Trafikkselskap was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 bus company that operated the city bus in Kristiansand

Kristiansand

-History:As indicated by archeological findings in the city, the Kristiansand area has been settled at least since 400 AD. A royal farm is known to have been situated on Oddernes as early as 800, and the first church was built around 1040...

 and surrounding areas Vennesla

Vennesla

Vennesla is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Vennesla was separated from Øvrebø in 1861. Øvrebø and Hægeland were merged with Vennesla again on 1 January 1964...

, Søgne

Søgne

Søgne is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Søgne was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Greipstad was separated from Søgne on 1 July 1913....

 and Songdalen

Songdalen

Songdalen is a municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. Songdalen was created as a new municipality on 1 January 1964 through the merger of the former municipalities of Finsland, Greipstad and a small part of Øvrebø. The administrative center is the village of Nodeland. The central market area...

. The company had about 300 employees and operates on contract with Vest-Agder Kollektivtrafikk. Nettbuss

Nettbuss

Nettbuss AS is the largest bus company in Norway owned by the Norwegian State Railways . It was until 2000 known as NSB Biltrafikk. The company has 14 operating subsidiaries throughout Norway and in Denmark and Sweden....

 Sør (blue buses) took over the local buses in Kristiansand 01.01.2011.

History

The company was founded on January 1, 1986 as the result of a merger between Ruteexpressen, Lillesand og Topdalens Bilruter, Torridalens Bilruter and Vaagsbygdruta and is owned by the holding company TK Brøvig

TK Brøvig

T. K. Brøvig AS is a Norwegian holding company concentrating on bus operation in Vest-Agder. The company owns Bussen Trafikkselskap, Sørlandsruta and Vaagsbygdruta. The holding company was founded in 1965 by Tørres Kristian Brøvig and now controls about 85% of all bus operations in Vest-Agder. In...

 that also owns Vaagsbygdruta and Sørlandsruta

Sørlandsruta

Sørlandsruta is a Norwegian bus company that operates in Western Vest-Agder. The company has about 100 employees and operates on contract with Vest-Agder Kollektivtrafikk with base in Mandal. The most important route is Kristiansand - Mandal - Farsund that operates on a half-hour headway and is...

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