Koivusaari metro station

Koivusaari metro station (Finnish: Koivusaaren metroasema, Swedish: Björkholmens metrostation) is a station located underwater on the Länsimetro extension of the Helsinki Metro.^[3][1][4]

Koivusaari Björkholmen
Helsinki Metro station
The Koivusaari metro station in November 2017.
General information
Location	Sotkatie 12, Helsinki
Owned by	HKL
Platforms	island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	HSL buses 21N, 22, 22B, 104, 112N, 192T, 192V
Construction
Structure type	Deep single-vault
Depth	33 metres (108 ft)[1]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	A
History
Opened	18 November 2017
Passengers
4,200 daily[2]
Services
Preceding station Helsinki Metro Following station Keilaniemi towards Kivenlahti M1 Lauttasaari towards Vuosaari Keilaniemi towards Tapiola M2 Lauttasaari towards Mellunmäki

Although the metro station is named after Koivusaari, the westernmost island in Helsinki, it is actually located on the extreme western edge of the Lauttasaari island. It is located 2.3 kilometres east from Keilaniemi metro station and 1.6 kilometres west from Lauttasaari metro station.

The eastern entrance to Koivusaari metro station is located on Sotkatie in Lauttasaari. The western entrance, on the island of Koivusaari itself, had not been taken into use when the Länsimetro was completed, it is waiting until land use in the area has developed enough.

History

Koivusaari metro station opened in 2017 as part of the Länsimetro extension, and is currently the only metro station in the world located under the sea.^[5] The station has 76-metre-long (249 ft) escalators and funicular-style elevators. It is the westernmost metro station in Helsinki. The following station to the west, Keilaniemi, is located in Espoo.

The escalators at Koivusaari metro station are the longest in the entire country in Finland.^[6] On weekdays Koivusaari metro station is visited by 4,600 passengers per day on average, which is the lowest number among all stations of Länsimetro and the entire Helsinki Metro.^[7]

Koivusaari metro station was temporarily closed for refurbishment – to fix cracks found in the concrete floor of the station – on 1 June 2020 and reopened in August.^[8]

Gallery

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  The eastern entrance to Koivusaari metro station
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  The longest escalators in Finland
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  The eastern entrance to the metro station in February 2016

References

1. Administrator. "Länsimetro - Koivusaari station". www.lansimetro.fi. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
2. "Metroasemien käyttäjämäärät". HKL. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
3. Administrator. "Länsimetro - Construction". www.lansimetro.fi. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
4. "Länsimetro on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
5. "Tältä näyttää maailman ainoa merenalainen metroasema - "maailman kaunein metroasema"" (in Finnish). Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
6. Vahtera, Tiina: Tässä ne ovat: Suomen pisimmät liukuportaat kulkevat meren alle 76 metrin syvyyteen, Helsingin Sanomat 6 May 2016. Accessed on 24 August 2016.
7. Metroasemien käyttäjämäärät, Helsinki Regional Transport Authority. 10 December 2018. Accessed on 6 May 2019.
8. "World's only underwater metro station closes for renovation". YLE. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.

External links

• Media related to Koivusaari metro station at Wikimedia Commons
• Länsimetro work in progress

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