Skyss is a county owned public transport administration company that will take over the management, but not operation, of public transport in Hordaland, Norway. The company will administrate public service obligation (PSO) contracts as well as promote public transport in the county. The administration is also responsible for ticketing and branding of the transport. Included in its range of authority is buses, fast ferries as well as the Bergen trolleybus and Bergen Light Rail, the latter from the opening in 2010.
The first routes to be administrated are the ones in Austevoll, starting on January 1, 2008. Other areas will be taken over when PSO contracts are taken into use. Prior to this, basically all routes in the county are operated by Tide, who operate under their own brand. Skyss will also launch Skysskortet, a wireless ticket system for payment of travel throughout the county, to be launched step-wise in 2008.
(Wilkinson)
To be running so far away
To rely on the perfect stranger
True colours they suffer with age
One look at the storm and fly straight on in
To the rain and thunder
Fool lover swept under the tide
The storm was gathering around them
He cast her off and put to sea
Well, he'd found somebody new to steer him
Through his dream
She sailed him all around her coastline
Every inlet every bay
And though he knew it then
He was too afraid to say it One day all alone he waited
The silence crept beneath his door
And as the room grew dark he knew
She's come no more
Drifting in the dead of night
Show me landfall give me light