STOCKHOLM | Public Transport

[LtBk]

I don't know either. Maybe he forgot about it since it's been 2 decades since he last visit it, but my dad is going back this year to visit a friend(we are not Swedish btw).

[Svartmetall]

Originally Posted by LtBk

I don't know either. Maybe he forget since it's been 2 decades since he last visit it, but my dad is going back this year to visit a friend(we are not Swedish btw).

Haha, I'm not Swedish either - I'm a Brit in NZ with a Chinese girlfriend moving to Sweden so goodness knows what you'd call me.

Tell him to take the Tunnelbana - there are lots of very attractive stations on it - especially on the blue line!

[LtBk]

That's what I'm going to tell him. Going more off topic, but my dad has never used mass transit for 12 years(and that's was in Europe) because we live in auto centric suburban America, and uses a car for all 100% of his trips, even when going to a more urban city. The closed rail station to our house is over a mile, and it's rather useless unless you are going downtown. Mass transit in the Baltimore metro is crap.

[Svartmetall]

Well, I went all around Stockholm and used public transport for everything. Not once did I feel I needed a car even if I had to take a bus a few times. Walking one mile though is not what I would call far. I guess it also depends on how willing you are to walk. Even in Tokyo or Hong Kong I ended up walking well over 1600m to get to a station at times so if one mile is too much to walk, then he probably will find not having a car inconvenient.

[LtBk]

Except that we are in auto centric suburbia, and the closest rail station is in a business park.

[Svartmetall]

Originally Posted by LtBk

Except that we are in auto centric suburbia, and the closed rail station is in a business park.

Haha, fair enough! I just hope he enjoys his time in Stockholm. It's a great little city.

[LtBk]

As I said before, Stockholm is blessed to have good mass transit that makes many people in the US envious IMO.

[dj4life]

Originally Posted by LtBk

As I said before, Stockholm is blessed to have good mass transit that makes many people in the US envious IMO.

A sparse urbanisation of the whole metro area may be one of te reasons, why Stockholm has a well developed transport system. Of course, the city grows and some of the suburbs become a part of the city area and that is an argument to develop the existing system, even more, aswelll.
I, personally, find trasport system being reasonable in Stockholm (and other Swedish cities).

[Swede]

Originally Posted by dj4life

A sparse urbanisation of the whole metro area may be one of te reasons, why Stockholm has a well developed transport system.

The reason isn't that we're so spread out (mostly in clusters tho, not an even-density sprawl). Most suburbs and rail transit came hand-in-hand. The Blue line suburbs, for instance, are built around the subway stations in many cases. I.e. the transit and suburbs were planned at the same time. The older, more urban suburbs (like Sundbyberg where I'm woriting this at work) are built around the old rail lines (now commuter rail) or old suburban tram lines. Sprawl was what was wanted, rail transit made it sprawl that's somewhat dense around the stations and with plenty of left over forests bewteen suburbs (originally meant as barriers, now tauted as amazing biodiveristy pathways).

And a tiny bit of news:
The Kista-line of the Tvärbana will NOT go to Sollentuna/Häggvik as favoured by most officials but will instead go to option B: Helenelund. Far closer and a simpler strecth to build (500m straight instead of 3-4 km twisting), and also a station on the commuter rail. There is potential for extending it from there in the future as well, so that it connects all the way to Roslagsbanan in the east. This way it could connect all the rail-lines heading north from the inner city at about 5-10 km out.

[dj4life]

Originally Posted by Swede

The reason isn't that we're so spread out (mostly in clusters tho, not an even-density sprawl). Most suburbs and rail transit came hand-in-hand. The Blue line suburbs, for instance, are built around the subway stations in many cases. I.e. the transit and suburbs were planned at the same time. The older, more urban suburbs (like Sundbyberg where I'm woriting this at work) are built around the old rail lines (now commuter rail) or old suburban tram lines. Sprawl was what was wanted, rail transit made it sprawl that's somewhat dense around the stations and with plenty of left over forests bewteen suburbs (originally meant as barriers, now tauted as amazing biodiveristy pathways).

Ops, and i thought it was the other way. Actually, it really is easier to imagine the cities as combinaiton of clusters, where there are buildings and some greenery in each. As a result the cities aren't very densely populated, yet they occupy larger teritories.

[Svartmetall]

SL's "Pride Bus" is Full!

Following a campaign to encourage Facebook users to submit their photo to appear on the side of a new SL double decker bus ready for the Pride Parade in Stockholm, over 34,000 people submitted photos leading to a large, multicoloured collage of many different faces on the side of the bus. This bus will be one of the many exciting displays for the Gay Pride event in August.

The requirement to fill both sides of the bus was only 16,000 photos, however, that requirement was met within 10 hours of the competition opening. Now all faces will also be displayed in a separate tent at the pride event.


Image obtained from PrideSL.se

[Dan]

I'm on it looking forward to seeing it in August

[Svartmetall]

Major Construction Works During Summer

This summer there are major construction works affecting the Tunnelbana system to allow for improvements to services in the future.

Blue Line Partial Shutdown

The Blue Line will be terminated at Rådhuset to allow for construction work of the Citybanan rail tunnel between 20th of June and 19th of October. People are recommended to change to the Green Line at Friedhemsplan to get to Stockholm Central Station.


Green Line Hagsätra Branch Shutdown

The Hagsätra Branch of the Green Line will be shut down between 21st of March and 25th of September. This is to allow rebuilding of the oldest section of the metro including rebuilding stations and deep cleaning as well as new signalling. Bus number 19 will provide a replacement service every 5 minutes off-peak and every 2-3 minutes at peak.


Restructuring of Södertälje Rail Services

The single track railway line to Södertälje Centrum is being upgraded to double track between 2011 and 2012 with complete station rebuilds and a new station being built at the port of Södertälje (Södertälje Hamn). During this time, all buses will be routed to either Södertälje Hamn or Östertälje stations to allow connections to the railway line to Stockholm.

[dj4life]

Double-decker buses are back to Stockholm! The first 25 buses äVDL Synergyä which were manufactured in the ducth company 'VDL' will be soon delivered to the capital of Sweden and they will be operated in the line Stockholm Östra (station) - Norrtälje. Every double-decker bus is run on biofuel and has 84 seats. The buses are set to be used starting from later this month.
More information is available in the arcticle: http://www.vdlbuscoach.com/en/news/2...in-sweden.html

(c) nobina.com

[LtBk]

I would like to see more videos of Stockholm mass transit from Youtube.

[Svartmetall]

Stockholm Transport Videos

Historical video about the construction of the Tunnelbana.





Video of two metro trains arriving.





All forms of rail traffic in Stockholm as of 2009. It doesn't have the new tram in the city centre in the video.





A MAN bus in the middle of Scania land down in Södertälje.




Buses in Stockholm this March - still snow on the ground!

[dj4life]

Great videos. Thank you for adding them, Svertmettal.

[air_wair]

Here is the entire green line from end to end from the drivers cab in just 4 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjARO...eature=related

[air_wair]

Some more from the red line. The music is fascinating. Does anyone know what it is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi-scLs1PbI&NR=1

[Fatfield]

If you look under the bottom right of the video window the information you're after is there.