Siilitie metro station

Siilitie metro station (Finnish: Siilitien metroasema, Swedish: Igelkottsvägens metrostation - "Hedgehog Way") is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the northern part of the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. There are 117 bicycle and 111 car parking spaces at the station. Both lines M1 and M2 serve Siilitie.

Siilitie Igelkottsvägen
Helsinki Metro station
General information
Location	Siilitie 2, Helsinki
Coordinates	60°12′19″N 25°2′37″E
Owned by	HKL
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Connections	HSL bus lines 58, 58B, 79, 79B, 90A, 92N, 94N, 96N, and 97N
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Parking	111
Bicycle facilities	117
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	B
History
Opened	1 June 1982
Passengers
9,700 daily
Services
Preceding station Helsinki Metro Following station Herttoniemi towards Kivenlahti M1 Itäkeskus towards Vuosaari Herttoniemi towards Tapiola M2 Itäkeskus towards Mellunmäki

Siilitie was one of the original stations on the system, and was opened on the first day of operation on 1 June 1982. It was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.3 kilometres north-east of Herttoniemi metro station and 2.1 kilometres west of Itäkeskus metro station.

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  Metro station entrance
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  Construction work in the late 1970s

Name

Siilitie (unofficially translated into English as Hedgehog Way) is a veritable oddity in the station naming scheme of the Helsinki metro. As the station is named after the street on which it is located, Siilitie's name is unconventional, because stations on the Helsinki metro tend to be named either after the neighborhood, university, or square which it serves.

External links

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