A/S Bynesruten was a

bus company A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for ch ...

that operated in

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. From 1924 to 1972, it operated a 30-kilometer bus route from Trondheim to

Byneset Byneset is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality of Byneset encompassed the western part of what is now Trondheim municipality in Trøndelag ...

and

Spongdal Spongdal is a village in the municipality of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is the largest village in the Byneset area in Heimdal borough. It is located between the villages of Langørjan and Ringvål. The Byneset Church lies about w ...

. The company was founded in 1924 as a cooperative, A/L Bynesruten. It became a limited company in 1948. By 1964, the city council had bought 93 of 161 shares, after

Trondheim Bilruter Trondheim Bilruter or TBR was a municipally owned bus company in Trondheim, Norway between 1951 and 1974. It was merged with the tram operators Trondheim Sporvei and A/S Graakalbanen in 1974 to form Trondheim Trafikkselskap. It is now part of Te ...

had failed to purchase it. On 1 January 1972, Bynesruten merged with the city's two municipal-owned tramway companies,

Trondheim Sporvei Trondheim Sporvei was a municipally owned tram operator in Trondheim, Norway that existed between 1936 and 1974. The company operated the municipal parts of the Trondheim Tramway until it was merged with A/S Graakalbanen and Trondheim Bilruter ...

and

Graakalbanen A/S Graakalbanen was a private company that built and operated the Gråkallen Line of the Trondheim Tramway between 1924 and 1972. Established in 1916, it bought large land areas in Byåsen, and built a tramway through these to reach the recreatio ...

, to create

Trondheim Trafikkselskap Trondheim Trafikkselskap or TT was the city public transport company for Trondheim, Norway between 1974 and 2001. It operated both the city buses, and the Trondheim Tramway until 1988. The company was owned by the city council. TT was founded in ...

. At the time of the merger, Bynesruten had 17 buses, 11 trucks and 40 drivers.

References

Bus companies of Trøndelag Companies based in Trondheim Transport companies established in 1924 Transport companies disestablished in 1972 1924 establishments in Norway 1972 disestablishments in Norway {{Norway-transport-stub