Nordic & Baltic Infrastructure - Links & Megathread

[Swede]

Originally Posted by staff

Sideshow_Bob,
What I meant is that the T-bana in Stockholm still has more stations in the suburbs than in the inner city - and the fact that it actually serves the suburbs at all, just like T-bane in Oslo and S-Tog in Copenhagen.

If you wanna count that you, you could also say a majority of stations in NYC and London are also outside the core. By far the majority of Tunnelbanans stations are within City limits, all of the Green line and most of the Red and Blue lines too.

[staff]

Originally Posted by Swede

If you wanna count that you, you could also say a majority of stations in NYC and London are also outside the core. By far the majority of Tunnelbanans stations are within City limits, all of the Green line and most of the Red and Blue lines too.

Well, I was rather referring to the areas of "inner city character" (ie. dense build-up). The main parts of London's Underground and New York's subway run in these inner-city areas, whereas the T-bana, S-tog and so on mainly run in more suburban-like areas (at least - there are more stations in the suburban areas than in the dense built-up areas).

[Swede]

hehe, in that sense you're right.

[Jape]

Helsinki region's city rail system will get new
Stadler FLIRT (=Flinker Leichter Innovativer Regional-Triebzug) trains. First trains will be delivered in 2009-2010. Approx at the same time the city rail network will be extended to Helsinki-Vantaa international airport.


source: railway-technology.com


source: Junakalusto OY

Our current local trains are not too old and they work really well, but they are more suitable for regional train (R-bahn) type traffic.

source: Wikipedia

Some other information:
- The 74 km long high speed track "Oikorata" between Kerava and Lahti wil be opened tomorrow (3rd September). I'll make a new thread for it.
- 25th September the final decision about the big western Metro extension will be made. I have been looking forward to it for too long.

[NorthStar77]

Those new trains looks good! And the "old" ones are certainly not bad either.

[cphdude]

As of next monday, 2 Copenhagen Metro stations will change their names.

The station known as UNIVERSITETET will now be called DR BYEN. Originaly the station took its name from the planed extention of Copenhagen University that was to be located there. By the time this idea was droped however, the planing of the metro was so advanced, that it was not possible to change the name, without great costs. So the name stayed, much to the confusion of many, as the correct stop if you wanted to go to Copenhagen university was ISLANDS BRYGGE, not UNIVERSITETET.

Also the station SOLBJERG on Frederiksberg will change its name to the more known FASANVEJ.

Both station will also keep the old name internaly, to make sure there are no mistakes in case of emergency responce....

[Jape]

The big metro extension to Espoo is now decided to built!

Damn, I'd have a lot to say about that but sorry, I don't know English words for all those witty bureaucratic terms (have you ever tried to make a referated English translation of an endless pdf that is full of witty bureaucratic jargon?).

Anyway, this map reveals very briefly what it's all about. Two westernmost stations - Nittymaa and Matinkylä - are not visible:


I have no idea how to say it all in a nutshell. But let's try...

- This particular extension has long and very complicated history which dates back to 50's. Originally it was meant to be built not later than the mid 80's, but as we live in Finland, we have Finnish way to organize things (or to be without organizing things we should rather say).
- Approx 13 kilometers new tracks (IIRC), all completely underground.
- 7 new stations (5 of them can be found from the map above).
- The project will cost about 500 million euros (30% of it will be financed by the state).
- If all goes well, construction works might start in 2010.

Some other important public transportation projects were decided to be built:
- The half-circle light rail "Jokeri" (the ideal concept is Tvärbanan in Stockholm). It's the green half circle on the map below.
- City rail extension from Leppävaara to Espoo.



Hell yes I'm happy with these news although at the same time I know that all similar projects were built in Stockholm and Oslo decades ago.

[Ringil]

Nya E4 öppnar till jul

2006-10-12

Av:Unt.se & TT
Södra delen av nya E4 förbi Uppsala öppnas för trafik 21 december 2006.

Det är en 24 kilometer lång sträcka till Onslunda trafikplats.
Från den trafikplatsen får bilisterna fortsätta 3 kilometer till gamla E4 söder om Björklinge.
Det innebär alltså att under de återstående tio månaderna kommer Björklingeborna att få stå ut med fortsatt genomfartstrafik.
Den samhällsekonomiska vinsten med tidigarelagd start är beräknad till 65 miljoner kronor.
Det berättade Vägverket vid en presskonferens i Uppsala på torsdagsförmiddagen under medverkan av bland andra verkets generaldirektör Ingemar Skogö.

Påverkar inte maran
Den tidigare E4-starten påverkar inte E4-loppet som går av stapeln den 15 september 2007. Loppet som går över hel- och halvmaratondistanserna kommer att genomföras som planerat och under loppet stängs nya E4 av för trafik.

Längsta i Sverige
Från Björklinge fortsätter bygget av nya E 4 till Mehedeby. Den delen ska vara klar i oktober nästa år. Då avslutas Sveriges hittills längsta motorvägsbygge, 78 kilometer för drygt tre miljarder kronor.
— Sträckan runt Uppsala kommer förmodligen inte att få 110-hastighet, när den öppnas på vintern utan högsta hastighet blir 90 kilometer i timmen, säger vägdirektör Christer Agerback vid Vägverket.
Till sommaren blir naturligtvis högsta hastigheten 110 även om vägen är byggd enligt 120-kilometersstandard.
När hela utbyggnaden är klar 2007 har i stort sett hela E4 mellan Björklinge och Helsingborg motorvägsstandard. Då återstår bara 32 kilometer utanför Ljungby i Småland.

Anyone eager to translate?

Pics from the new E4 from Mehedeby-Danmark,S.Uppsala





outside Tierp in N.Uppland

[Þróndeimr]

^ That looks pretty nice, how much is that Södra delen av nya E4 gonna cost?

[Þróndeimr]

Nordre Avlastningsvei

4.9km new main road, 1.2km in tunnel in the west part of downtown Trondheim. Expected cost is 1.1 billion NOK. Construction started in 2004 and phase 1 will be completed in october 2007.

[staff]

Nice to see all this development in the Nordic cities!
I'm amazed how cheap the metro extension in Helsinki seems to be - the Citytunnel extension in Malmo only includes 3 stations and 17km of tracks, and will cost well over a billion Euros.

[Jape]

Originally Posted by staff

I'm amazed how cheap the metro extension in Helsinki seems to be - the Citytunnel extension in Malmo only includes 3 stations and 17km of tracks, and will cost well over a billion Euros.

It's mainly because the soil is very solid there (Finnish granite is among one of the hardest in the world). They just have to dig the tunnel and that's it. Soft soil always causes all kinds of special accomplishments. It tends to raise the costs significantly. That's the case with Malmö Citytunnel, I'd guess.

Here's another important infrastructure project in Helsinki - "Pisara" an underground city railway tunnel, similar to Citybanan in Stockholm or Citytunnel in Malmö:


Despite its relatively high costs - about 250 million euros - it's estimated to be really useful if not necessary:

• There have been some serious capacity problems between the central station and Pasila. They are just about to raise in the future.
• Currently it's somewhat slow and awkward to switch from metro to city train. Two Pisara stations (Hakaniemi and Helsinki Central) would be straightly connected to metro platforms with underground pedestrian tunnels.

[Swede]

250M€ ain't that bad. The Citybana that the new goverment in Swedne & Stockholm has stopped would have costed about 1.5G€ - and since they've stopped it, it won't get built for another few years. It'll still have to be built eventually tho, there's just no other realistic way to increase capacity enough.

[varlamas]

High-speed double-decker trains such as the one pictured below are scheduled to go into service in 2008 and travel between capital Vilnius and Lithuania's 2nd largest city Kaunas. Train manufacturer is CKD Vagonka, a division of Škoda, Czech Republic. Distance between the two cities is 100km. Total of 2 trains will be put into service. Reconstruction of the Vilnius railway station is nearing completion as the Kaunas one is well underway.

[Borgvik]

Originally Posted by Swede

250M€ ain't that bad. The Citybana that the new goverment in Swedne & Stockholm has stopped would have costed about 1.5G€ - and since they've stopped it, it won't get built for another few years. It'll still have to be built eventually tho, there's just no other realistic way to increase capacity enough.

This project has already cost ~1 Billion kronor, cancelling it now would be stupid...! But the hope isnt lost quite yet, other instances will also have a word on this...

[cphdude]

Soft soil was also a big problem with the Copenhagen metro. To build the runway from the metro to the S-train, they had to freeze the soil and then hack it out...

[Swede]

Originally Posted by Borgvik

This project has already cost ~1 Billion kronor, cancelling it now would be stupid...! But the hope isnt lost quite yet, other instances will also have a word on this...

I really hope it gets built (dug) asap.
One article after the election about people living near where one of the construction holes (i.e., an access-point to the underground digging/construction) being exstatic about the tunnel not getting built. Then they said they wreen't against the general idea, just that it would affect them and be oh so noicy and plenty of big trucks going thru the area their children live in. NIMBYs!!!

[ch1le]

Originally Posted by varlamas

High-speed double-decker trains such as the one pictured below are scheduled to go into service in 2008 and travel between capital Vilnius and Lithuania's 2nd largest city Kaunas. Train manufacturer is CKD Vagonka, a division of Škoda, Czech Republic. Distance between the two cities is 100km. Total of 2 trains will be put into service. Reconstruction of the Vilnius railway station is nearing completion as the Kaunas one is well underway.

great news, but just 2 trains?

[mlm]

2 Weeks ago the newest strech of Danish motorway opened. 15 kms around Herning, which is stage one of the Herning - Vejle motorway. The route will be ready in 2012 (some 60 kms), but smaller streches will open in between.

Vejdirektoratet has made a newspaper and a DVD about the project, the newspaper can be read HERE and the movie can be seen HERE.

A few quickies from this wet morning, and yes, it looks quite empty on such a sunday:









Finally the motorway cross with the "old" (from 2002) Herning - Århus motorway, from my flight a few months ago:

[cphdude]

Originally Posted by mlm

2 Weeks ago the newest strech of Danish motorway opened. 15 kms around Herning, which is stage one of the Herning - Vejle motorway. The route will be ready in 2012 (some 60 kms), but smaller streches will open in between.

A few quickies from this wet morning, and yes, it looks quite empty on such a sunday:

As most of the new build highways does, thanks to the trafic mafia...But hopefully those days are over now...

But the highways are great for racing. Once i was late for my train and my dad had to drive me to the station. The speed on these highways was around 160-180 and we met 2 cars along the way...

That was fun...