Bullet trains from Turku and Tampere to Helsinki

10 comments

1. It might. But being from Turku, the 600 year building time would suck.

2. Tampere yes, Turku no. 

   There is harbour both in Turku and in Helsinki, so Turku-Helsinki helps only to move people. Doesn’t bring benefits for industrial sector. 

   IMO, it is wasted money as building railways are so expensive and the companies are highly specialized i.e. only handful of companies can benefit from building it. There are so many other cases where the money could be spent and make a big difference. 

3. Yes of course, practically between any 2 growing cities. However the return on investment would be somewhere slightly before the heat death of the universe, unless the EU pays 75% of it.

4. How fast will the train be?

5. Honestly, I really don’t get this project at all. The money could be better spent upgrading the main line, eg: Tampere-Seinäjoki is just a single track with many, many passing places – you could make that all double track for a fraction of the cost and for some trains save 15-20+ minutes on all points north of Tampere.

   Commuter line to Lohja, that is probably needed given the traffic on Turunväylä.

   But another question, if this line is built, will traffic continue beyond Karjaa (towards Salo) ? There’s not a lot of freight on that line for a start, maybe 2-3 per week (according to Julia).

6. If the Turku line is built, it should at least have a provision to change the rail gauge to standard gauge in case of a hypothetical line from Turku to Stockholm. I know the Coastal Line is in a dire need for upgrade, but maybe an entire new line to Turku is not the best option as the trains have nowhere else to go after Turku (unlike with the Tampere line).

7. This project doesn’t make sense to me. There must be an actual cargo or military transferring reason.

8. A new take on the old Turku jokes: The most important thing here is not the trains to Turku but away…..

9. The real current bottlezneck on the Finnish rail system is the Tampere-Oulu line. The vast majority is single track and is a hugh bottleneck as it is operating at full capacitacy and there is a hugh demand that can-t be catered to. Going forward, to reduce the use of fossol fuels and given long haul electric trucks are not a solution, more goods must be transported via electrical rail that by trucks.

   This puts even greater demand on the allready bottle necked main rail line to Oulu or maybe even Kemi.

10. You just know public officials are going to buy the trains meant for a tropical environment and they are going to break when it snows.

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