The march order to the Northern Norway Railway who never came
I have said it before, and I say it again: Never before has the door been so far open for the Northern Norway Railway than as now-with the march order from the Storting to the Government to start work on realizing the Northern Norway Railway, adopted on April 20, 2021.
But in government, the Labor Party has changed its mind. So far, they have not shown signs of realizing the track. They would rather continue to train it.
Transport Minister, Jon-Ivar Nygård, has not yet oriented his government on what fate he recommends for the Northern Norway Railway. Not last fall, nor now.
It is currently uncertain when recommendation for concept choices or plan for further follow-up and progress of the concept selection study (KVU) of the Northern Norway Railway is presented to the Government, the civil service of the Ministry of Transport and Communications said to NRK (April 11, 2025).
The Railway Directorate derives on its hands in its consultation response on March 1, 2024 on KVU – the Northern Norway Railway. There, they say that « the Railway Directorate believes that there has been sufficient facts that political decisions can be made to build the track even if it is not the Directorate’s recommendation. »
This invitation has ignored both ministries, government and parliament.
An unregulated acceleration of the National Transport Plan and various delays and postponements along the way have led to the absolutely incredible and scandalous that the Northern Norway track has been in the stomp throughout this 4-year period-even with anchoring in a parliamentary majority on realization.
It is in the Storting the case about the Northern Norway railway should be decided. But what does it help if the parliamentary representatives intend to abdicate? Or will they demand to get the railway case to be treated at the tamp of their guard?
In 1995, the year after the Storting last time voted down the Northern Norway railway, Ola Jonsmoen published the book Northern Tracks – the railway to Boris Gleb. He himself called the book Say a Lauparbikkje of a novel. It is divided into three balls: the procurement – the shift – the downturn. He ended with the following postulate:« It is not good to know where the dog lies the bury. But in a city it must be. That’s my claim. ”
Some know enough about where the burial ground of this inflamed truth is to be found. That’s my claim.
