Sörnäisten rantatie (

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: ''Sörnäs strandväg'') is a wide street in

Sörnäinen Sörnäinen ( sv, Sörnäs; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district ...

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. It leads from the

Hakaniemi market square The Hakaniemi market square (Finnish: ''Hakaniementori'', Swedish: ''Hagnäs torg'') is a market square located in Hakaniemi, Helsinki, Finland, opened in 1897. Throughout its history, there have been numerous Vappu marches and demonstrations st ...

Suvilahti Suvilahti ( sv, Södervik) is a cultural center and former energy production area in Sörnäinen, Helsinki. It encompasses nine buildings and two large gasometers. Construction of a steam turbine Power station, electrical power plant was complet ...

near the

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. For the most part, Sörnäisten rantatie is a high-traffic road connecting

Itäväylä Itäväylä (the Eastern Highway, Swedish: Österleden) is a motorway-like road in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland, mainly in the Helsinki conurbation. It is part of the Finnish regional road 170 ( fi, Seututie 170, sv, Regionalväg 170). Th ...

to the city centre. It is also part of the

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. As well as Itäväylä, the street Hermannin rantatie also branches off from an intersection at the northern end of the street, going towards

Lahdenväylä , sv, Riksfyran; fi, Lahdenväylä; sv, Lahtisleden , maint = the Finnish Transport Agency , map = Finland national road 4.png , length_km = 1295 , length_round = , length_ref = , established = 1938 , direction_a = , terminus_a = Helsi ...

. The

Hakaniemi bridge Hakaniemi (; sv, Hagnäs) is an unofficial district of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. It covers most of the neighbourhood of Siltasaari in the district of Kallio. Hakaniemi is located at the sea shore and is separated from the city centre by the ...

connects Sörnäisten rantatie to

Pohjoisranta Pohjoisranta (Swedish: ''Norra Kajen''), meaning "northern shore", is the eastern shore of the district of Kruununhaka in Helsinki, Finland and a street running along it. Description and history Pohjoisranta is known for the Halkolaituri (''Ve ...

, leading to the Helsinki Market Square. Nowadays Sörnäisten rantatie is the most important traffic connection between the eastern and northeastern radial entrance roads to Helsinki (

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, Lahdenväylä, Itäväylä) connecting them to the city centre. The westernmost part of Sörnäisten rantatie, near the Hakaniemi market square, has become a separate, low-traffic side street. According to a proposed city plan, this part of the street will be renamed "Miina Sillanpään katu" ("

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Street") in the future. According to the plan, a short street named Merihaankatu will lead from the renovated Hakaniemi bridge to Sörnäisten rantatie.

History

Earlier, Sörnäisten rantatie was mostly an interior street in the industrial and harbour area, with a railway track branching off from the

Sörnäinen harbour rail Sörnäinen ( sv, Sörnäs; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of Helsinki, near the district ...

to the Hakaniemi market square running along it. It was started to expand to a larger traffic road in the early 1950s when the new Kulosaari bridge was being constructed. The Hakaniemi bridge was completed in 1961, connecting Sörnäisten rantatie to Pohjoisranta in

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and onwards to the South Harbour. As traffic originally went via Hakaniemenranta to the

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bridge, the Hakaniemenranta street remains a four-lane street to this day, even though the traffic does not support this any more. Sörnäisten rantatie connected the bridges and created a main route from Itäinen moottoritie (now known as Itäväylä) to the centre as the new

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spread to the former loosely populated areas. As traffic increased in the 1960s and 1970s the street was expanded bit by bit to six lanes wide. The traffic on both Itäväylä and Sörnäisten rantatie decreased significantly when the

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was opened in 1982.

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lived at Sörnäisten rantatie 1 from August to September 1917 at the house of Helsinki militia chief

Kustaa Rovio Kustaa Adolf Simonpoika Rovio (23 January 1887 in Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly ...

. From 1995 to 1997 the international car racing contest

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took place on a 3.3 km long track near Sörnäisten rantatie.

Tunnel plan

There are plans to ease the traffic to the north to Hermannin rantatie with a tunnel. The planned 1.6 km long Sörnäinen tunnel would reach from Vilhonvuorenkatu near Sörnäisten rantatie to Hermanni to the south of Haukilahdenkatu. There are also plans to connect the tunnel to the proposed

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, which could continue all the way to

Länsiväylä Länsiväylä (the Western Highway, Swedish: Västerleden) is a motorway in the Greater Helsinki area of Finland, mainly at the Helsinki conurbation. It is part of the Finnish national road 51. The road begins in Ruoholahti in western Helsinki an ...

.Rönnberg, Oskar
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