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April 01, 2006
Copenhagen buses
The last few days have been a bit exciting on the Copenhagen buses.
Wednesday and Thursday saw the Dannebrog (the Danish flag) flying in tandem from the buses because of a "Bulgarian state visit", apparently. The Dannebrog is also flown on Royal occasions - birthdays, weddings etc.
On Friday, one of the Dannebrog flags was replaced with one of a number of international flags to celebrate Dialogday, a celebration of the diversity of Coepnhageners' ethnic backgrounds - one in five has foreign roots. The flags chosen were representative of those backgrounds - Iceland, Italy and Iran among them.
Today, we took a trip into town on the number 19. Usually, the 19 is one of the older yellow buses (like this but without the red stripes).
But today's trip was on a new lightweight bus made by VDL Berkhof of Belgium (wikipedia entry here). It's a model SB200, HUR number 1000 (you can read more technical info here). It appears to be a bit wider inside, and has a single exit. It seems HUR (the Copenhagen city area travel authority) has been running them for a while according to this forum thread on myldretid.dk (in Danish).
Posted by daen at April 1, 2006 11:15 PM
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