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The Stockholm Metro (Swedish: Stockholms tunnelbana) is a rapid transit system in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. Its first line opened in 1950 as the first metro line in the Nordic countries. Today, the system consists of three lines and 100 stations, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground.
Today, Stockholm’s main traffic arteries include Essingeleden, Södertäljevägen, and other radial routes connecting the city out to surrounding areas. Stockholm is at the junction of the European routes E4, E18 and E20. A C-shaped motorway ring road exists around the south, west and north of the City Centre. The northern section of the ring ...
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik known as SL, [1] (Greater Stockholm Local Transport) [2] is the public transport organisation responsible for managing land-based public transport in Stockholm County, Sweden. SL oversees a network that includes the Tunnelbana metro, Pendeltåg commuter trains, buses, trams, local rail, and some ferry services.
The station infrastructure underwent another major change with the opening of the Stockholm City Line on July 10, 2017. Northbound long-distance trains were rerouted onto a new viaduct, known as the Älvsjöbågen, [ 6 ] which crosses over the commuter rail tracks south of Årstaberg and connects to the original eastern Årsta Bridge .
Sweden has right-hand traffic today, like all its neighbours. Sweden had left-hand traffic ( Vänstertrafik in Swedish ) from approximately 1736 and continued to do so until 1967. Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring Nordic countries already drove on the right, leading to mistakes by visitors.
Sundbyberg is a railway station in central Sundbyberg, Sweden, 6.4 kilometers from Stockholm Central Station.It opened in 1876 as part of the Mälaren Line.The station serves both Stockholm commuter rail trains around Stockholm County, and regional trains operated by SJ to Västerås and Gothenburg. [2]
Connecting Stockholm was founded in 2022. [1] In January 2024 in was awarded the 11-year contract to operate the Stockholm Metro network. It will takeover from MTR. [2] [3] [4] After unsuccessful bidder Keolis launched a legal challenge, in October 2024 Region Stockholm awarded Connecting Stockholm a provisional two-year contract pending completion of the legal process that would commence on 2 ...
The line will feature interchanges with all three of the Metro's existing lines, as well as to the Stockholm commuter rail and Tvärbanan light rail, however will be the Metro's first line without a station at T-Centralen. [2] Preparatory works for the line started in 2024, [3] with construction works scheduled to begin in 2025.