{"id":846,"date":"2008-01-17T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/tunnel\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T20:03:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:03:21","slug":"tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/images\/20080117.01.jpg\" alt=\"keskustatunneli\" width=\"570\" height=\"427\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a long planned tunnel underneath helsinki city centre looks unlikely now to be built because of a change of heart of one of the main parties in the helsinki city council. i wonder if audible gasps were heard from members of the other parties when the decision was announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>the tunnel was due to cost about 500million euros and would have stretched from ruoholahti to the west of the city and go to just north of s\u00f6rn\u00e4inen.<\/p>\n<p>helsinki city planning department: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hel.fi\/wps\/portal\/Kaupunkisuunnitteluvirasto\/Artikkeli?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=\/fi\/Kaupunkisuunnitteluvirasto\/Ajankohtaiset+suunnitelmat\/Projektialueet\/Keskustatunneli\">central tunnel website<\/a> (in finnish)<br \/>\nhelsingin sanomat: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hs.fi\/english\/article\/-\/1135233347837\">proposed helsinki tunnel unlikely to be built <\/a>(in english)<br \/>\nalso an anti-tunnel site by activists: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keskustatunneli.fi\/etusiv\/set-etusivu.htm\">keskustatunneli.fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>at the same time there is some doubt about the metro extention westwards to espoo &#8211; rising costs (going from 430million euros to 800million euros). hopefully now that the central tunnel has been (most likely) cancelled resources can be put into the metro extension. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yle.fi\/news\/id80086.html\">yle.fi story<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hs.fi\/english\/article\/-\/1135229832047\">story<\/a> in helsingin sanomat a while back about the high rates of lone drivers in cars coming from espoo to helsinki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a long planned tunnel underneath helsinki city centre looks unlikely now to be built because of a change of heart of one of the main parties in the helsinki city council. i wonder if audible gasps were heard from members of the other parties when the decision was announced yesterday. the tunnel was due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finland","category-helsinki","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drrnwbb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}