Stockholm Transport compilation thread

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Originally Posted by orulz

That underground bus terminal inside the mountain sounds pretty amazing. Where do the buses from the eastern suburbs that will use this terminal currently stop?

Under all that concrete. Just north of all those ramps, just south of the subway station. The subway goes above part of the bus terminal (with parking for buses to the west of the subway). All at quay level.

This is what part of it looks like:

20150812_123051 by Gustav Svärd, on Flickr

Originally Posted by orulz

It seems like it is going to re-use the existing space of the cold war-era bomb shelter turned parking garage of [link=https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarinabergets_skyddsrum]Katarinabergets skyddsrum[/link]. It seems the entrances along Katarinavägen dug into the hill will be converted for passengers? How much does the underground space have to be expanded?

Nope, it won't use that old bomb shelter. It's pretty much all new. The entrance will re-use on of the entrances to the bomb shelter tho.
The bus terminal has NOT cleared all the planning and political step yet it was close, but had to start over due to mistakes in how the process of planning was done. Not due to flaws in the plans, just in the process.

Originally Posted by orulz

Does the pedestrian tunnel from there to the Tunnelbana already exist?

Nope.

Originally Posted by orulz

Seems there is a new entrance from Stadsgårdsleden for buses as well, how will that be built?

Blasting. That's how tunnels are dug here. Wrong rocks for TBMs iirc.

Originally Posted by orulz

The Saltsjöbanan gets a new station and a double track approach. How far will this double tracking extend, and how will it be built, a new bore through the rock or perhaps taking space from Stadsgårdsleden?

It won't go far at all, sadly. Basically just the station. There have been a couple of different plans presented over the last 15 years to get double tracking from Henriksdal to Slussen, but none got close to construction. I do expect it to happen eventually tho, the increased capacity is just so useful.

Originally Posted by orulz

Sorry for all the questions. You are right though, this is an important transport hub, and in my opinion, one of the most fascinating pieces of transportation infrastructure in the world.

Slussen and Centralen are the two really interesting infra-hubs in Stockholm IMO. After Citybanan is done Stockholm Central will have 5 levels of rail, 3 levels with bus/coach stops and 3 mezzanine levels for a total of 10 levels (bus & rail share one level).