Do long-distance buses in Iceland typically permit getting off outside timetabled stops?

9/28/2015 11:56:55 PM

I am back from my journey, which included Strætó bus 51 from Reykjavík-Mjódd to Höfn i Hornafirði, with a change of buses and drivers in Vík.

On three occassions (two between Reykjavík and Vík, and one between Vík and Höfn i Hornafirði), a passenger or group of passengers requested to get off the bus at an intersection or farm that did not have an official bus stop. In each of these cases, the bus driver did not make a fuss and stopped at the requested stop, where someone was waiting by car to pick up the passenger, suggesting this is quite normal. At each of those stops, the bus could stop safely without blocking traffic (which was well below one car per minute in any case).

It looks like the Strætó rule that Tor-Einar Jarnbjo quotes is not enforced in practice in rural areas of Iceland, where scheduled bus stops may be 100 km apart.

9/12/2015 6:37:33 PM

Parts of the Strætó web site (the bus line operator) is unfortunately only in Icelandic. Here they write:

Vinsamlegast biddu vagnstjóra aldrei um að stöðva vagninn annarsstaðar
en á biðstöð. Það getur haft í för með sér mikla slysahættu, bæði
fyrir farþega og aðra í umferðinni.

Roughly translated to English:

Please never ask the bus driver to stop the bus at other places than
the designated bus stops. It can be the cause of many accidents, both
for the passengers and for other road users.

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