Public transport|A small red sign appeared on the route of the new trolley line to Vallila, which expresses in one sentence the demands of the residents of the area.
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In Vallila, Helsinki, residents demand a new stop for the tram line 13.
The lack of a stop causes dissatisfaction, because the distance to other stops is 1.2 km.
The residents have made a municipal initiative and organized demonstrations.
The city justifies the lack of a stop by the increase in travel time and costs.
“Stop thank you for this,” reads a small sign along the new trolley line in Helsinki’s Vallila. The sign is red and heart-shaped and tells about the dissatisfaction of some residents of the area with Helsinki’s bus stop design.
The sign is located on the section of track between the swimming hall and the Vallila farm garden at the road called Poikkikulku. The new trolley line 13 runs nearby, which does not stop here on its way between Pasila and Kalasataman Nihti.
At first there was a balloon at the desired stop, but after it broke, a plywood sign appeared.
Stopping the distance between them is no less than 1.2 kilometers, which is significantly more than the other stops on the line.
“The interval is the longest of all stop intervals on the Helsinki tram lines, with the exception of express tram lines,” says a person who works and lives in Kumpula Tuuli Toivonen.
The residents are not satisfied with the situation: in their opinion, tram line 13, which started operating in August, does not serve the townspeople.
Toivonen has already commented on the lack of a stop during the construction phase of the line in 2023. HS published An opinion letter by researchers working on the campus of the University of Helsinki, to which the city’s traffic and street planning manager also responded.
At that time, the city justified the lack of a stop by increasing the travel time of the route and thus the costs.
Assets did about it municipal initiativewhich currently has around 600 signatures.
The initiative hopes that the city will build a stop at the Villa Novilla wooden house at the intersection of the light traffic lanes called Vallilanlaaksonkulku and Poikkikulku.
At first, there was a heart-shaped balloon with the words “stop here please”. Now the balloon has changed to a heart-shaped plywood sign.
In August and September, activists in the area organized demonstrations at the desired stop. Only three people arrived at the first one, says a resident next to Vallilanlaakso Marja-Leena Pohjanen. He was one of the protesters.
Bridge at the moment, the tram line does not serve the residents, employees, students or hobbyists of the area, the activists say.
According to Toivonen, since the preparation of the project, many things have changed in the area: there are more residents and users of the area around the park area. Additional construction is also planned, for example, around the former Kätilöopisto hospital.
The nearby Kumpula campus of the university was not taken into account at all in the planning, says Toivonen.
The campus is a lively place to study or work. In addition, the Urhea Hall, which opened in 2021, and the football club’s fields, which are in use all year round, operate nearby.
There are therefore a lot of football enthusiasts, children and young people in the area, for whom a fast-moving tram causes dangerous situations. A stop would bring a solution to that issue as well, says Toivonen.
To the hillbilly club According to Pohjanen, seniors in the area also hope to have a stop in Vallilanlaakso. They often have business with Kalasatama health center and Arabia shopping center.
He fears that previous opposition from residents to a streetcar line running through the park area influenced the placement of the stops.
According to Pohjanen, the club hoped that the tram line would run through Sturenkatu instead of Vallilanlaakso park.
“With the trams, we only got disadvantages and not benefits”, states Pohjanen.
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