Team Trafikk AS was the

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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 ...

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, since 2002 owned by

Nettbuss Vy Buss, formerly branded as Nettbuss, is the largest bus company in Norway, owned by Vy. It was established on 10 February 2000 as the continuation of the bus operations from former NSB Biltrafikk. In addition to bus services in major parts of ...

. The company had 225 buses, 600 employees, a revenue of

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270 million and a daily ridership of ca 70,000 passengers in 2005. The company received subsidies from the

City of 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 ...

for their operations.

History

Team Trafikk was created in 2001 when the municipally owned Trondheim Trafikkselskap and the

Kyrksæterøra Kyrksæterøra is the administrative center of the municipality of Heim in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village was known as the "white town of Hemnfjorden" at one time because there were only white houses. It is located at the end of Hemnfjo ...

-based and

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-owned

Hemne Orkladal Billag Hemne Orkladal Billag or HOB was a Norwegian transport company based in Kyrksæterøra, Sør-Trøndelag. HOB was founded in 1937 and merged with Trondheim Trafikkselskap in 2001 to form Team Trafikk. History Hemne og Vinje Billag is founded in ...

(HOB) were

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. Both the previous owners later sold their shares to the Norwegian State Railway subsidiary Nettbuss. After the take-over Nettbuss transferred the non-Trondheim operations to ''Nettbuss Trøndelag AS'' and kept the Trondheim operations in Team Trafikk. From 1 January 2011 the company was renamed ''Nettbuss Trondheim AS'' and in September of the same year it was merged into Nettbuss Trøndelag.

Routes

All the bus routes in Trondheim goes via the terminal at Munkegata/Dronningens gate in the

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(except from a few workman's routes in the morning and the afternoon). The lines 3-9 are pendulum routes going from one end of town through the downtown terminal to the other end of town and the two digit numbers are radial routes going from the downtown terminal to one end of town and back. Route 60 and 20 and route 66 and 36 are circular routes going opposite directions while route 63 replaced tram line 3 going from

Singsaker Singsaker is a neighbourhood in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located north of the neighborhood of Moholt, east of Gløshaugen, west of Tyholt and Rosenborg, and south of Bakklandet, in the borough of Midtbyen. The ...

to the

Trondheim Central Station Trondheim Central Station ( no, Trondheim sentralstasjon) or Trondheim S is the main railway station serving the city of Trondheim, Norway. Located at Brattøra in the north part of the city centre, it is the terminus of the Dovre Line, running so ...

. Tram line 1 is the only surviving tram in Trondheim, and is known as Gråkallbanen. {{Authority control Bus companies of Trøndelag Companies based in Trondheim Transport companies established in 2001 Transport companies disestablished in 2011 Former subsidiaries of Vy Buss