At that time (1979) there was a
complicated network of six services, as under:
Monday
- Friday daytime and Saturday morning (half hourly) -
1. Hoyvik - R C Effersøesgøta - Miđbýur (out and back)
2. Miđbýur - Marknagilsvegur - Landavegur - Miđbýur (circular)
3. Miđbýur - Eysturskúli - Miđstađarøkiđ - Ternuryggur (out and back)
4. Miđbýur - Landavegur - Sjúkrahús (hospital) - Miđbýur (circular)
5. Miđbýur - Bursatangi - Miđbýur (circular)
6. Miđbýur - R C Effersøesgøta - Gundadalur - Varđagøta - Miđbýur
(circular)
On Monday - Friday evening, Saturday
afternoon and evening, and Sunday all day the routes operated hourly,
excepting the 4 which stayed half hourly. Route 5 changed from its
daytime route at these times, becomingMiđbýur - Eysturskúli -
Miđstađarøkiđ (out and back, duplicating part of 3).
Miđbýur was the town centre
location now referred to as Steinatún.
Service to
Argir
was added in 1980, after that community merged with Tórshavn, giving this pattern of routes:
1. Hoyvik - R
C Effersøesgøta - Miđbýur (out and back)
2. Miđbýur - Sjúkrahús (hospital) - Miđbýur - R C Effersøesgøta -
Gundadalur - Varđagøta - Miđbýur - Sjúkrahús - Miđbýur (circular)
3. Ternuryggur
- Eysturskúli - Miđbýur - Sjúkrahús - Argir - Sjúkrahús - Miđbýur -
Eysturskúli - Ternuryggur
4. Eysturbýur
- Djóna í Geil Gøta - Miđbýur - Marknagilsvegur - Miđbýur - Djóna í
Geil Gøta - Eysturbýur
Routes 1, 2 and 3 operated
half hourly on Monday to Saturday from 0600 to 2000 and then hourly to
midnight. On Sunday they ran hourly from 0745 to 2345, increased to
half hourly between 1415 and 2015. Route 4 operated half hourly on
Monday to Saturday thoughout the day from 0630 to midnight. On Sunday
the frequency was hourly from 0800 to midnight, incresed to half hourly
between 1430 and 2030. The daytime operation of these four routes
called for five buses. The 'suburban' route to Kaldbak appears in the
timetable for the first time, with four return trips on Monday to
Friday and three on Saturday and Sunday.
Hvitanes was included in
1981 and the northern loop joining
Ternuryggur to Hoyvik and Hvitanes was first operated in 1982 as the
town
grew outwards. Service
reached northwards to Undir Brunni and the Hotel Føroyar (the latter
short-lived) in 1983 and also westwards to Norđasta Horn.
The operating contract
changed and from 1983 the buses were
provided on behalf of the Kommuna (town council) by four private
contractors (Mourits Mouritsen, Arne Berg,
Sámal Bláhamar and Gunleif Danielsen). These were the routes in
1983:
1. Hoyvik - Steinatún - Sjúkrahús - Steinatún - Gundadalur - Varđagøta
- Steinatún - Sjúkrahús - Steinatún - Hoyvik (subsuming previous route
2)
3.
Hoyvik - Hvitanes - Ternuryggur - Eysturskúli - Steinatún - Sjúkrahús -
Argir - Steinatún - Eysturskúli - Ternuryggur - Hvitanes - Hoyvik
4. Hotel Føroyar - Undir Brunni - Steinatún - Sjúkrahús - Norđasta Horn
- Sjúkrahús - Steinatún - Undir Brunni - Hotel Føroyar
Routes 1 and 3 were
half-hourly Monday to Friday daytime and Saturday morning, dropping to
hourly in the evening and all day Sunday. Route 4 was hourly seven days
a week. The adult single fare was 7 krone and the ticket was valid for
one and a half hours.
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