Nordicum - Real Estate Annual Finland 2012 | Page 54

Rail Renaissance
Ring Rail Line means business for Vantaa

people will live within five minutes’ bike
ride from the station.
In addition to Kivistö and Airport,
there will be stations at Leinelä and Aviapolis. There are also reservations made for
additional stations under ground in Ruskeasanta and Viinikkala and on the surface in
Vehkala and Petas. At the moment it looks
like Vehkala might be the next station to
be realised.
“As the need surfaces, we can move
forward with Vehkala,” Nikulainen says.

Retooling Ring Road III

Ring Rail Line connects many of the residential and corporate neighbourhoods of
the area.

Vantaa is about to take the train into
the future. Previously, the City has
relied on a kind of “air supremacy”
to attract companies and residents,
as the Helsinki-Vantaa International
Airport has provided a boost to the
neighbouring Aviapolis area and
beyond. In a couple of years, however,
the new Ring Rail Line will add a
whole new dimension to the regional
mass transportation system.

T

he Ring Rail Line has been a dream of
the capital region developers for a long
time, but finally the construction of the
line was started in 2009 and it will start to
operate in 2014. Riding the rails, the journey time from the centre of Helsinki to the
airport will be about half an hour.
Juha-Veik