General plan for Crown Bridges tram connection completed (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Feb 2016
A general plan has been completed for a proposed tram line connecting the Helsinki city centre and Laajasalo over the Crown Bridges. According to the plan, the tram would travel through Hakaniemi in the inner city and take a northern route in Laajasalo passing by Yliskylä ... The bridges would integrate Laajasalo, Kruunuvuorenranta and Kalasatama into the inner city and provide a fast route between the areas for cyclists and pedestrians....

A Swollen River of Refugees Fleeing War

Edit Topix 18 Feb 2016
Negotiating our way from the airport in Helsinki to Laajasalo, a small island and suburb where we were to stay with a Finnish journalist, we crossed a frozen and snow-covered Baltic Sea, as white flakes swirled in the streetlights and the temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees Celsius, a long, long way from Baghdad ... ....

A Swollen River of Refugees

Edit CounterPunch 18 Feb 2016
Negotiating our way from the airport in Helsinki to Laajasalo, a small island and suburb where we were to stay with a Finnish journalist, we crossed a frozen and snow-covered Baltic Sea, as white flakes swirled in the streetlights and the temperature dropped to minus 25 degrees Celsius, a long, long way from Baghdad. Our friends Mohammad and his teenage son, Omar, come from a small farming village where they grow okra ... No small feat ... ....

The Tram Exhibition takes a peek into the future of public traffic (City of Helsinki) ...

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jan 2016
(Source. City of Helsinki) 15.01.2016 20.13. Laituri's Tram Exhibition lets you get to know the light railways planned for Helsinki and Espoo. Raide-Jokeri and Kruunusillat are at the centre of the exhibition ... Kruunusillat is the tram connection planned to run between the centre of Helsinki and Laajasalo, for which bridges are planned from central Helsinki to Kruunuvuorenranta. The connection will be partly implemented as a light railway....

Skiing and skating in Helsinki (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jan 2016
(Source. City of Helsinki). Cross-country skiers are served in Helsinki by the Kivikko Skiing Hall and the Paloheinä outdoors area. Skaters are served by tens of skating rinks and seven artificial rinks ... In the event that there is still no natural snow in Helsinki in January, snow making machines will be used to produce at least one track in Eastern Helsinki - the alternatives include Laajasalo, Herttoniemi and Mustavuori ... Read more.....

Vaccinations against seasonal influenza in Autumn 2015 (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Dec 2015
... child health clinics on Wednesdays at Herttoniemi, Kallio, Laakso, Maunula, Paloheinä, Suutarila, Puistola and Jakomäki maternity and child health clinics on Thursdays at Kivikko, Myllypuro, Vallila, Pitäjänmäki and Vuosaari maternity and child health clinics on Fridays at Haaga, Laajasalo, Malmi and Munkkiniemi maternity and child health clinics....

Vaccinations against seasonal influenza (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Nov 2015
... child health clinics on Wednesdays at Herttoniemi, Kallio, Laakso, Maunula, Paloheinä, Suutarila, Puistola and Jakomäki maternity and child health clinics on Thursdays at Kivikko, Myllypuro, Vallila, Pitäjänmäki and Vuosaari maternity and child health clinics on Fridays at Haaga, Laajasalo, Malmi and Munkkiniemi maternity and child health clinics....

Plans for Crown Bridges approved by City Council (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Nov 2015
(Source. City of Helsinki) ... The bridges would allow the development of a fast connection from the city centre to the Laajasalo area of eastern Helsinki ... The Crown Bridges would only serve trams, cyclists and pedestrians. The tram connection, extending from Kruunuvuorenranta through Laajasalo to Yliskylä in northeastern Laajasalo, would integrate Kalasatama, Kruunuvuorenranta and the whole Laajasalo into the inner city ... Read more. ... (noodl....

Plan for Crown Bridges in City Council (City of Helsinki)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Nov 2015
(Source. City of Helsinki) ... The bridges would allow the development of a fast connection from the city centre to the Laajasalo area of eastern Helsinki ... The bridges would only serve trams, cyclists and pedestrians. The tram connection, extending from Kruunuvuorenranta through Laajasalo to Yliskylä in northeastern Laajasalo, would integrate Kalasatama, Kruunuvuorenranta and the whole Laajasalo into the inner city ... Read more.. Kalasatama....

Residents’ meeting on public transport in Roihuvuori on 23 January (City of Helsinki)

Edit noodls 23 Jan 2014
(Source. City of Helsinki) ... An HSL transport planner will also participate in the meeting with whom residents can share their thoughts about public transport in Herttoniemi, Roihuvuori and Laajasalo. distributed by....

Oil Silo 468 welcomes the public this weekend (City of Helsinki)

Edit noodls 02 Nov 2013
(Source. City of Helsinki). Helsinki residents and visitors will have the opportunity to visit Oil Silo 468 in the Kruunuvuorenranta district on for the last time this year in 2-3 November ... Admission is free on the open-house weekends ... Oil Silo 468 can be reached in the larger Laajasalo area from the end of the street of Koirasaarentie, which hosts a temporary parking lot ... (noodl....
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