{"id":5653,"date":"2021-12-14T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T10:04:57","slug":"plans-for-debatable-sornainen-tunnel-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5653","title":{"rendered":"Plans for Debatable Helsinki Tunnel Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hel.fi\/helsinki\/en\/administration\/decision\/council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helsinki City Council<\/a> has confirmed the planning application for a 1.6km road tunnel in the S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen area of Helsinki, at a meeting on 24 November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u00a3154M (\u20ac180M) project contains an underground road tunnel linking two roads &#8211; S\u00f6rn\u00e4isten rantatie and Hermannin rantatie. Its purpose is to allow additional housing development in northern Kalasatama, which forms part of S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen, and to boost the area\u2019s environment for cyclists and pedestrians by moving through traffic under the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project is going to be developed in two phases. In the first phase, the northern tunnel section and underground structures of the 200m tunnel access ramps are going to be constructed. This part of the project could start next year and is calculated to cost about \u00a343M (\u20ac50M).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second phase\u2019s planning, which contains the construction of the rest of the tunnel, is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen tunnel has been a thorny and longstanding political issue, with opponents and environmentalists stating it will boost traffic and greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Timo Harakka, the Finnish minister of transport and communication and Helsinki councilor called the tunnel \u201cuseless\u201d, saying that the area\u2019s tram and bus connections would be better future-proofed without it. He also criticized the lack of alternative options to the proposal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen tunnel opening for traffic is expected to be in the early 2030s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki City Council has confirmed the planning application for a 1.6km road tunnel in the S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen area of Helsinki, at a meeting on 24 November. The \u00a3154M (\u20ac180M) project contains an underground road tunnel linking two roads &#8211; S\u00f6rn\u00e4isten rantatie and Hermannin rantatie. Its purpose is to allow additional housing development in northern Kalasatama, which forms part of S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen, and to boost the area\u2019s environment for cyclists and pedestrians by moving through traffic under the ground. The project is going to be developed in two phases. In the first phase, the northern tunnel section and underground structures of the 200m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[1380,1381],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-helsinki","tag-sornainen-tunnel","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}