Finnish national road 3

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National Road 3
Hämeenlinna Highway, Tampere Highway
Klaukkala-Loppi-kyltti, E12.jpg
Route information
Part of E12
Maintained by the Finnish Road Administration
Length424 km (263 mi)
Major junctions
FromHelsinki
ToVaasa
Location
CountryFinland
Major citiesHämeenlinna, Tampere
Highway system

Finnish national road 3 (

motorway, connecting Helsinki to Tampere. North of Tampere, the road is mostly two-lane road, with a share of 2+1 road. The busiest point on Highway 3 is in Helsinki, north of the Ring I junction, where the average traffic volume is about 90,000 vehicles per day.[1]

Back in the late 1950s before the current freeway, the Finnish regional road 132 (Mt 132) was the former main road to Hämeenlinna and Tampere via Loppi and Janakkala.[2]

Route

Arriving in Tampere from Helsinki along highway 3

The route of the road is: Helsinki – Vantaa – Nurmijärvi – Hyvinkää – Riihimäki – Janakkala – Hämeenlinna – Hattula – Kalvola – Valkeakoski – Akaa – Valkeakoski (again) – Lempäälä – Tampere – Pirkkala – Nokia – Tampere (again) – Ylöjärvi – Hämeenkyrö – Ikaalinen – Parkano – Jalasjärvi – Kurikka – Ilmajoki – Isokyrö – Laihia – Korsholm – Vaasa.

Highway 3 starts in Helsinki at the end of the

Greater Helsinki, the road is also called Hämeenlinnanväylä, sometimes in colloquial language also Tampereenväylä. The former name of the road is Nurmijärventie, referring to the municipality of Nurmijärvi along the way. The traffic volumes on the highway are quite high all the way. For example, in the case of Riihimäki, the volume of road traffic is about 30,000 vehicles per day.[3]

Highway 3 runs right next to the city center at

Goodman Shopping Center [fi] in Hämeenlinna was completed in 2014 on the pavement.[4] Attention has also been paid to the aesthetics of the highway environment. Some of the bridges at Highway 3 can be considered almost works of art and the rock cuts have been illuminated. Ekku Peltomäki's light art work Lux Tavastia is next to Akaa's Terisjärvi.[5]

To the south of Tampere city center, Highway 3 turns onto Tampere's western ring road, which is also a motorway. The western ring road was completed as a two-lane road, partly as a two-lane expressway in 1985.[6] The motorway ends slightly west of the center of Ylöjärvi, and the highway turns from the ring road at the Elovainio interchange to the road between Tampere and Vaasa. Between Ylöjärvi and Vaasa, Highway 3 is a standard Finnish two-lane highway, the quality of which varies. Some of the major interfaces have been upgraded to intermodal interfaces.[clarification needed] In addition, there is an 11-kilometre-long motorway between Korsholm's Helsingby and Vaasa. The road ends in the center of Vaasa.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Suomen tieverkon vilkkain kohta löytyy Pohjois-Helsingistä, lähes 100 000 autoa päivässä". Etelä-Suomen Sanomat (in Finnish). 19 March 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  2. ^ Grönroos, Matti (29 April 2015). "Teillä ja turuilla: Klaukkala" (in Finnish). Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  3. YLE
    (in Finnish). 18 January 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  4. YLE
    (in Finnish). Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  5. ^ Tieliikennelaitoksen sidosryhmälehti VIA, 3/2005 Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
  6. ISBN 951-37-1621-X
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  7. ^ Teillä ja turuilla: Vaasa (in Finnish)

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