Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2011 | Page 58

Rail Revolution
Air supremacy meets rail dominance at Vantaa
Vantaa is known for its dynamic Aviapolis area which keeps attracting cutting-edge companies to the city. The Helsinki–
Vantaa International Airport is an important anchor for many international companies, but in addition to air supremacy,
Vantaa is about to add rail dominance to its resume.

T

he Ring Rail Line has been
a dream of the capital region
developers for a long time. Construction of the Ring Rail Line
finally started in spring 2009
and the line will go into operation in the middle of 2014. The
Ring Rail Line promises to be
an urban rail line and a rail connection to the airport all rolled
into one.

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Jukka Peltomäki, Deputy
Mayor for the City of Vantaa,
expects great things from the
new rail connection.
“The Ring Rail will
change the metropolitan structure in ways that we can’t even
begin to see yet,” he says. Peltomäki notes that already there
are companies asking about the
Ring Rail Line:

“In the coming years, jobs
will materialise close to effective mass transportation systems. The Ring Rail Line will
be hard to compete with in this
regard,” he predicts.

Double Traffic
Peltomäki notes that when a corporation is thinking about estab-