Siilitie metro station

Siilitie Igelkottsvägen
Helsinki Metro station
Location	Siilitie 2, Helsinki
Coordinates	60°12′19″N 25°2′37″E / 60.20528°N 25.04361°E / 60.20528; 25.04361Coordinates: 60°12′19″N 25°2′37″E / 60.20528°N 25.04361°E / 60.20528; 25.04361
Owned by	HKL
Line(s)	M1   M2
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Connections	HSL bus lines 58, 58B, 79, 79B, 90A, 92N, 94N, 96N, and 97N
Construction
Parking	111
Bicycle facilities	117
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	B
History
Opened	1 June 1982
Passengers
9,700 daily[1]
Services
Preceding station   HKL   Following station Herttoniemi toward Ruoholahti Northern Branch Itäkeskus toward Mellunmäki Eastern Branch Itäkeskus toward Vuosaari

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 and . It is located 1.3 kilometres north-east of Herttoniemi metro station and 2.1 kilometres west of Itäkeskus metro station.

Name[]

Siilitie (unofficially translated into English as Hedgehog Way) is a veritable oddity in the station naming scheme of the Helsinki metro. As the station is named after the street on which it is located, Siilitie's name is unconventional, because stations on the Helsinki metro tend to be named either after the neighborhood, university, or square which it serves.

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