Siilitie Igelkottsvägen | ||||||||||||||||
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Helsinki Metro station | ||||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | Siilitie 2, Helsinki | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 60°12′19″N 25°2′37″E / 60.20528°N 25.04361°E | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | HKL | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Connections | HSL bus lines 58, 58B, 79, 79B, 90A, 92N, 94N, 96N, and 97N | |||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||
Parking | 111 | |||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 117 | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
Other information | ||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | B | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1 June 1982 | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
9,700 daily[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Services | ||||||||||||||||
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Siilitie metro station (Finnish: Siilitien metroasema, Swedish: Igelkottsvägens metrostation - "Hedgehog Way") is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro.[2] It serves the northern part of the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. There are 117 bicycle and 111 car parking spaces at the station.[3] Both lines M1 and M2 serve Siilitie.
Siilitie was one of the original stations on the system, and was opened on the first day of operation on 1 June 1982. It was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.3 kilometres north-east of Herttoniemi metro station and 2.1 kilometres west of Itäkeskus metro station.