>>1428255>>1428382Depends. A metro for Helsinki's measly 1 million people metro area is a bit heavy solution. There will be that one line only, maybe lengthened a bit to Östersundom and branched to Espoo center.
To pull metro off properly, one needs a metropolitan region, I'd say 2.5 million and up. Well, Okay, there's the example of Stockholm right there at 2.3 M and some other smaller cities too, but Helsinki metro is built to exceptionally big standard, yet it runs quite short trains. 135 long platforms, but now only 90 in Espoo! (two 44 m units, used to be 3) Hence why they run insane 5 minute intervals now. The capacity of the tunnel eaten up by combined frequency of 2.5 min.
And, the reason there wont be another metro line is, that they built a local train to Martinlaakso where it was supposed to terminate. The so called "droplet" railway tunnel around the city center would take city center portion of the old metro plan's U-line.
Have to say someone has made sweet and informed art for the wikipedia article.
