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Haga Station (Gothenburg)
Haga station is a railway station currently under construction in Gothenburg, Sweden. Designed to serve both commuter trains and regional trains as part of the West Link project, it is expected to open in 2030, alongside Korsvägen station following the completion of the entire West Link tunnel to Centralen station Centralen is a railway station under construction in Gothenburg, Sweden, expected to open in 2026 as part of the West Link tunnel. It is adjacent to Gothenburg Central Station and Nils Ericson Terminal bus station. Infrastructure Centralen st .... Haga station will be located 30 meters below ground, and will feature two platforms and four tracks. The station will feature three entrances: one towards the Haga Church tram stop and the Haga district, one towards Pustervik, and one towards the Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law. Gallery File:180623-openstreetmap-västlänken-station-haga.png, Station location File:Västlänken, byggnation 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in Metropolitan Gothenburg, the metropolitan area. Gustavus Adolphus, King Gustavus Adolphus founded Gothenburg by royal charter in 1621 as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony. In addition to the generous privileges given to his Dutch allies during the ongoing Thirty Years' War, e.g. tax relaxation, he also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast; this trading status was furthered by the founding of the Swedish East India Company. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the , where Scandinavia's largest dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Transport Administration
The Swedish Transport Administration () is a government agency in Sweden, controlled by the Riksdag and the Government of Sweden. It is responsible for long-term infrastructure planning for transport: road, rail, shipping and aviation. It owns, constructs, operates and maintains all state-owned roads and railways and operates many car ferry services. The agency is a member of the Nordic Road Association. For shipping and aviation, it only does planning and purchasing unprofitable traffic. Trafikverket does not do practical physical work to construct or maintain roads or railways, because that is done by separate companies which Trafikverket write contracts with and pay. History A special committee oversaw the effectiveness of the Swedish transport agencies during 2008 and 2009. A conclusion was reached that there would be significant gains compared with the then-present situation if a new agency responsible for long-term planning of the transport system for road, rail, maritime a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Link
The West Link () is a Railway line, railway project under construction in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consists of of railway, including of tunnel, including three new underground stations: Centralen station, Centralen, Haga station (Gothenburg), Haga and Korsvägen station, Korsvägen. The purpose of the project is to increase capacity and reduce travel times for Commuter rail, commuter and Regional rail, regional trains. The ''Centralen'' section of the West Link is set to open in December 2026, while the rest of the tunnel is planned to be ready for traffic by December 2030. Background The West Link project was initiated to address capacity issues at Gothenburg Central Station, which operates as a Terminus station, terminus with no room for additional trains during peak hours. This limitation has obstructed efforts to expand train services, as well as to construct a new railway to Borås, the second-largest city in the region, which is currently linked to Gothenburg primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trams In Gothenburg
The Gothenburg tramway network () is part of the public transport system organised by Göteborgs Spårvägar, controlled by Västtrafik in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. The system's approximately of single track — making it the largest tram network in Northern Europe — is used by around 200 trams , which serve twelve day-time and five night-time lines with a combined Network length (transport)#Line length, line length of 190 km. These figures are expected to increase when the second stage of ''Kringen'' (short for ''Kollektivringen'', the public transport ring) is finished. The trams perform about 2,000 trips and cover 30,000 km per day. In 2018, 131 million journeys were made (with changes counting as a new journey). History The first tram line in Gothenburg was started in 1879 by the England, English company Gothenburg Tramway Ltd. This was a horse-drawn tramway, which stretched from Brunnsparken, Gothenburg, Brunnsparken to Stigbergsliden. The city of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
