It also has two Helsinki Metro stations, Rastila and Vuosaari

The Helsinki Metro (, ), is the metro system in Helsinki, Finland.

The local commuter rail network ( overground ) that serves north and northwest directions does not intersect with the metro network, but passengers can change trains at the Helsinki Central Railway Station ( Metro station Rautatientori ).

In spring 1963 the committee presented its proposal for the Helsinki Metro system.

The Metro did not immediately win the approval from inhabitants of eastern Helsinki, whose direct bus links to the city centre had now been turned into feeder lines for the Metro.

Helsinki Metro map.

The ticketing scheme on the Metro is consistent with other forms of transport inside the city of Helsinki, managed by the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority ( HSL ) agency.

The trains on the Helsinki Metro are technologically quite similar to trains on the VR commuter rail network, which serves the northern and western suburbs of Helsinki.

The Metro is by far the cheapest form of transport in Helsinki to operate, with a cost of only € 0. 032 per passenger kilometre.

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The Helsinki Metro was extended to Ruoholahti in 1993.

* September 1-Opening of Mellunmäki metro station on the Helsinki Metro in Finland, the world's northernmost metro station.

Together with the Helsinki Metro and trams, the network forms the heart of Helsinki's public transportation infrastructure.

The Helsinki area has three urban rail systems: a tramway, a metro, and a commuter rail system.

It shares some peculiarities, such as the student nation system, with Lund University and the University of Helsinki.

The discussions eventually created the so called Helsinki system, on which UEA and the national associations agreed at the congress of 1922 in the Finnish capital.

This Helsinki system lasted for only a couple of years.

But the final blow to the Helsinki system came in 1932 when UEA did not pay its contributions for the common budget, and the same was true for some of the national associations.

On April 1, 1990, trading was moved to a new digital system: HETI ( Helsinki Stock Exchange Automated Trading and Information System, and in Finnish a rough backronym for " immediately "), which replaced the electro-mechanical trading board originally introduced back in 1935.

Helsinki region has a regional commuter rail system run by the national railway company VR ( Finnish / Swedish name: Lähijuna / Närtåg ).

Compared to systems in German cities, the Helsinki system is a combination of S-Bahn and " Regionalverkehr " systems — which means it's not up to S-Bahn standard.

The proposed U. S. missile defense system received attention at the Helsinki summit, where Clinton and Yeltsin agreed to an interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty allowing the United States to proceed with a limited missile defense system currently under development.

The initial motion for building a metropolitan railway system in Helsinki was made in September 1955, though during the past five decades the idea of a tunneled urban railway for Helsinki had surfaced several times.

A suburban traffic committee () was formed under the leadership of Reino Castrén, and in late 1955 the committee set to work on the issue of whether or not there was truly a need for a tunneled public transport system in Helsinki.

The findings of the committee were clear: Helsinki needed a metro system built on separate right-of-way.

The RM 1, HM V and RM 3 trams built for the Helsinki tram system in the late 1950s were also equipped to be usable on the possible light rail metro lines.

: The designers of Finland's first shopping centre were very enthusiastic about the rumoured plans for a metro system all over Helsinki — something that would not appear for another 20 years.

According to the Helsinki City Transport ( HKL ) yearly report for 2003, the metro system had a total of 55. 4 million passengers, who travelled a total of 404. 1 million kilometres.

Prof. Asko Parpola ( University of Helsinki ), the Jesuit priest Father Heras in the 1930s and other scholars ( such as Indian and early Tamil expert Iravatham Mahadevan and Prof. Walter A. Fairservis Jr .) conclude that the Indus sign system represented an ancient Dravidian language, a view that they assume is supported by Tamil artifacts discovered in 2006.

Since the demise of CityBikes in 2010, HKL is negotiating with JCDecaux Finland for a new bike share system to include 500 bikes and 34 stands in the downtown Helsinki, modeled after the Paris Velib program, with part of the program costs to be paid by commercial businesses in exchange for 45 double-sided advertisement boards inside the city centre.

At first Fle3 was developed in Media Lab in Helsinki as a user interface and interaction demonstration for the main software development taking place in Fraunhofer and based on their BSCW system.

In Finland, the City of Helsinki provides a modern automatic paratransit system with neither schedulers nor dispatchers.

Helsinki currently operates 12 tramlines on a network of approximately of track in passenger service.

Euronext has cross-membership and cross-access agreements with the Warsaw Stock Exchange for their cash and derivatives products, and with the Helsinki Exchanges on cash trading ; ownership agreements are currently excluded.

The Länsimetro extension will continue the line into western Helsinki and the southern parts of the neighbouring city of Espoo, currently served by buses only.

They currently hang in Hartwall Areena in Helsinki.

Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti ( born Helsinki, September 27, 1948 ) is a Finnish musicologist and semiotician, currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki.

He is currently the deputy mayor of Finland's capital city, Helsinki.

His nephew Jeremy Dehner ( sister's son ) currently plays in Finland in the Finnish Elite League (" SM-liiga ") for team Jokerit, Helsinki.

Simo Johannes Valakari ( born 28 April 1973 in Helsinki ) is a former Finnish footballer, who currently is youth coach of Käpylän Pallo.

She is currently Professor of Nordic Literature at Helsinki University, as of 2012.

The new railway will leave the mainline going north from Helsinki after Tikkurila station in the east, travel via the airport and into Vantaankoski station to the west, joining the existing the branch line for western Vantaa which is currently served by the " M " train.

Fortum is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange and is currently the only Nordic energy company registered on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

After teaching for a number of years at Florida State University, Stanford, University of Helsinki, and the Academy of Finland, he is currently Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.

Cronberg was born in Helsinki, Finland and currently resides in Polvijärvi.

The centre is currently expanding around Kupittaa railway station, next to Finnish national road 1 ( part of European route E18 ) between Helsinki and Turku.

He moved to Europe in 1970 and currently resides in Helsinki, Finland, together with his Finnish wife and tour manager Sari Matinlassi-Bibb.

Alek currently studies computational linguistics and computer science at the University of Helsinki.

Espoo is the second most populous city in Finland ( after Helsinki ), currently served by roads, bus transport, and commuter trains.

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo ( born July 13, 1953 ) currently chairs the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, and is the former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Nokia, as well former board member for Nokia Siemens Networks.

He currently is a language teacher at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland.

Soini currently lives in the Kaitaa district of Espoo, in the Greater Helsinki area.