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20-472: Construction of residential buildings in Aurinkolahti began in 2000 and is still continuing. The completed neighbourhood will have about 7,000 residents. The neighbourhood was planned by the city of Helsinki as a residential area for high-income people, in order to balance the low-income housing in much of East Helsinki and boost the image of Vuosaari. Much of the housing which has been built there to date

40-560: A Renaissance Revival styled station building, which (as of the 1970s) has since been adapted into the Vantaa City Museum. The railway brought industry into the area, including an expeller pressing plant, which currently operates in the area as the paint manufacturer Tikkurila Oyj . The railway also induced population growth. In 1946, Tikkurila became the administrative hub of Vantaa (then known as Helsingin maalaiskunta , English: Rural municipality of Helsinki ), after Malmi

60-469: Is a nonprofit organization devoted to popularizing scientific information and to developing the methods used to teach science and scientific concepts. The hemispheric-shaped planetarium primarily presents films dealing with astronomy ; until 2007, the theatre was called the Verne Theatre, and it ran super films and multimedia programmes made with special slide projectors that took advantage of

80-615: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ring III Kehä III ( "ring three" , National road 50 ; or Finnish : Kehä III or Kantatie 50 ; Swedish : Ring III or Stamväg 50 ) is an important highway in Southern Finland . It is the outermost of the three beltways in Helsinki capital region , and the first one to be built. It lies across the four Finnish municipalities of Kirkkonummi , Espoo , Vantaa and Helsinki . Shaped like an arch ,

100-515: Is the administrative and commercial hub of Vantaa, although Myyrmäki is a rival commercial hub within the municipality. Tikkurila's most popular attraction is the science center Heureka . Tikkurila railway station is the busiest in Vantaa and third-busiest in Finland. As the nearest mainline station to Helsinki Airport (located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Tikkurila), it is served by all

120-487: Is the nearest mainline station to it, connected by the Ring Rail Line and buses. Tikkurila railway station connections include: Tikkurila also acts as the central bus station of eastern Vantaa, with connections to Helsinki Airport and almost all residential areas. Buses from Tikkurila also go to Helsinki. Ring III , which runs in the southern part of Tikkurila, is one of the most significant road connections in

140-525: Is upscale condominiums; the housing development includes a regional fiber-optic network, 700m of swimming beach and a 200-place small-craft harbour, among other amenities. Aurinkolahti is easily accessible by public transport. The transit time between Vuosaari's metro station and downtown Helsinki is about 20 minutes. Located approximately 1 km from the Vuosaari metro station, Aurinkolahti can be reached on foot, by bicycle or bus, as well as by car. By car

160-457: The HSL area mostly follows the borders of Kehä III. The beginning was constructed between 1962 and 1965 from Bemböle to Länsisalmi and the continuation to Jorvas was completed in 1968. Originally, each road was two lanes wide. The amount of traffic grew considerably over time and as a result the original intersections with Helsinki's exit roads became dangerous. Therefore, all intersections with

180-606: The area is served by the Ring III motorway. Aurinkolahti is also located just south of the Columbus shopping centre, and six minutes by metro from Itis , the Nordic countries' largest shopping centre. [REDACTED] Media related to Aurinkolahti at Wikimedia Commons 60°12′08″N 025°09′13″E  /  60.20222°N 25.15361°E  / 60.20222; 25.15361 This Southern Finland location article

200-402: The city exits had been rebuilt as merging loops by the beginning of the 1970s. The road has undergone almost continual modification and widening throughout its existence as traffic has increased in the region. In the mid-1970s, the road between Tikkurila and Helsinki-Vantaa Airport was renovated and 10 years later the road was expanded to four lanes up to Vihdintie . At the end of the 1980s,

220-553: The city's history. Tikkurila also hosts an annual music festival , Tikkurila Festivaali, from July to August. Tikkurila is home to several services and facilities: Tikkurila railway station is the busiest railway station in Vantaa, and the third busiest in all of Finland (after Helsinki Central and Pasila ). Although the Helsinki Airport is not located in the Tikkurila major region, Tikkurila railway station

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240-432: The eastern endpoint of Kehä III. At the start of the 2000s, major improvements were made to the heavily used stretch from Tikkurila to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport: the road was widened to 6 lanes and Tuusulanväylä motorway's intersection was rebuilt as a large system connection. When the road was originally built, it was simply called the "Ring road", but the planning of the other two major roads caused confusion. Therefore, it

260-494: The entire 500 m2 surface of the hemispheric screen. Vantaa City Museum is a museum located in the old station building of Tikkurila railway station. It is operated by the city with free admission, and conducts diverse research and mapping work in co-operation with other parties, for example in connection with the archeology , cultural history and traditions of the urban area. It is used to host exhibitions publishing its own research and studies as well as other works related to

280-529: The high-speed Pendolino trains on the Helsinki to Tampere and Lahti routes as well as other long-distance services. Some of the other communities surrounding Tikkurila are Jokiniemi, Simonkylä , Ruskeasanta , Hiekkaharju , and Puistola in the Helsinki municipality. Tikkurila has been a marketplace since the 16th century, from which it has also received its name. Tikkuri is an old Finnish term referring to an amount of ten, used in fur trading at

300-460: The road has introduced higher volumes of heavy traffic. The European route E18 is routed through Kehä III, bypassing central Helsinki. Kehä III is often informally or jokingly considered the outer border of the Helsinki area, because most of the urban development of the capital region is inside the ring. The road itself doesn't follow any legal border and rural and urban landscapes can be found on both sides of it. The new zone system for fares in

320-642: The road is 46 kilometres (29 mi) long, of which only a very small fraction passes within the borders of Helsinki itself. Work on Kehä III started in 1962, on the base of an existing road. The construction was finished in 1972, initially with only one lane per direction. Most parts of the road have since been expanded to at least two lanes per direction, although the westernmost end is still one-lane per direction in places. The most recent construction work has been extensive renovation on its busiest stretch in Vantaa, where several interchanges have been built or improved, and lanes added. Industrial development along

340-505: The road was extended to Muurala and then once again one kilometer farther to the west. This same stretch was rebuilt shortly afterwards when it was expanded to four lanes up through Gumböle during the 1990s. Throughout the 1980s, stretches of Kehä III were completed to the Lahti motorway and to the Porvoo motorway in the 1990s. The road to Vuosaari Harbour , completed in 2007, extends from

360-466: The time. The road between Turku and Vyborg , King's Road , ran through the area, though the area remained a sparsely populated piece of the Helsinki Parish until the late 1800s. In 1862, the railway between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna was constructed, and one of its seven stations was built in Tikkurila, on its intersection with King's Road. The Swedish architect Carl Albert Edelfelt designed

380-421: Was called Kehä III from the 1970s onward. [REDACTED] Media related to Kehä III at Wikimedia Commons Tikkurila Tikkurila ( Finnish: [ˈtikːurilɑ] ; Swedish : Dickursby ) is a district and major region of the municipality of Vantaa , Finland. Located in the eastern half of the Helsinki conurbation , some 16 kilometres (10 mi) north of the capital's downtown district, it

400-455: Was transferred to Helsinki. Post-war population growth led to Tikkurila becoming the most populated area in Vantaa, though the Myyrmäki district and major region have both since become more populated than the Tikkurila equivalents. In 1960, a neofuturistic swimming hall was completed in Tikkurila. Finland's largest science center , Heureka , is located in Tikkurila. Opened in 1989, it

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