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Ring II (pronounced "ring two", fi, Kehä II, sv, Ring II; also known as ''Kilonväylä''Espoo puolustaa Kehä II:n jatketta – "Asukasmäärä kasvaa eivätkä liikkumisen tarve ja ruuhkaisuus vähene nykyisestä"
(in Finnish)) in the city of
Espoo Espoo (, ; sv, Esbo) is a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in the Republic of Finland. It is located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, bordering the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, Vihti and Nurmijärvi ...
is one of the major highways in Finland. The road runs north–south, connecting
Turuntie Finnish regional road 110 ( fi, Seututie 110, sv, Regionalväg 110), or Turku Road ( fi, Turuntie, sv, Åbosvägen), is the leading regional road from Helsinki to Turku. The road is a parallel to the former Highway 1 and the current Highway 1 ( ...
in the north, to Länsiväylä in the south. Despite its name suggesting a circle, it has not been built as a true beltway yet, unlike the parallel
Ring I Ring I (pronounced "ring one", fi, Kehä I, sv, Ring I) is the busiest road in Finland, carrying up to 113,000 vehicles per day. It is the innermost of the three beltways in the Greater Helsinki region, numbered as regional route 101 and ru ...
and Ring III highways.


History

The road was initially planned in the 1960s, but it was not until the end of 2000 that the first phase was completed.


Future

Since the cross-city traffic in Espoo,
Kauniainen Kauniainen (; sv, Grankulla) is a small town and a municipality of inhabitants () in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. It is surrounded and enclaved by the City of Espoo, in the Capital Region of Greater Helsinki. Kauniainen was founded ...
and
Vantaa Vantaa (; sv, Vanda, ) is a city and Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. It is part of the inner core of the Greater Helsinki, Finnish Capital Region along with Helsinki, Espoo, and Kauniainen. With a population of (), Vantaa i ...
is estimated to nearly double by the year 2025, plans have been made to extend Ring II to connect up with Finnish national road 3 ( fi, Hämeenlinnanväylä) in the northeast and add lanes where the road is currently only one lane wide in each direction.


See also

*
Ring I Ring I (pronounced "ring one", fi, Kehä I, sv, Ring I) is the busiest road in Finland, carrying up to 113,000 vehicles per day. It is the innermost of the three beltways in the Greater Helsinki region, numbered as regional route 101 and ru ...
* Ring III


References


External links

Ring roads in Finland Roads in Finland Transport in Espoo {{Europe-road-stub