Editing Tampere (section)

== Transport ==
{{Main|Transport in Tampere}}
[[File:Keskustori bus terminals1.jpg|thumb|Bus terminals at the [[Tampere Central Square]] ({{langx|fi|Keskustori}})]]

[[File:Tampere-Pirkkala Airport 1.jpg|alt=|left|thumb|[[Tampere–Pirkkala Airport]]. This photo was taken during COVID-19 pandemic, when the airport was nearly empty.]]

[[File:Tampere tram in front of Stockmann.jpg|alt=|left|thumb|[[Tram]] in [[Hämeenkatu]], Tampere]]

Tampere is an important railroad hub in Finland and there are direct railroad connections to, for example, [[Helsinki]], [[Turku]] and the [[Port of Turku]], [[Oulu]], [[Jyväskylä]], and [[Pori]]. Every day about 150 trains with an annual total of 8 million passengers arrive and depart in the [[Tampere Central Station|Tampere Central Railway Station]], which is located in the city center.<ref name=tampere_fi_asemakeskus/> There are also frequent bus connections to destinations around Finland. To the south of Tampere, there is the [[Tampere Ring Road]], which is important for car traffic and which is part of [[Highways in Finland|Finnish highways]] number [[Finnish national road 3|3]] (on the west side) and number [[Finnish national road 9|9]] (on the east side). The main stretch of the ring road sees over 50,000 vehicles per day,<ref name=newsnowfinland_2018-03-19/> and, according to the [[ELY Centre]] of Pirkanmaa, the western part of the ring road is the busiest road in Finland, if highway and ring road connections in the [[Helsinki metropolitan area]] are excluded.<ref name=yle_2021-08-25/> There are also plans for another ring road project that would run from Pirkkala to Tampere's [[Hervanta]] and possibly in the future to Kangasala.<ref name=aamulehti_2018-01-10/> [[Teiskontie]], which runs east of the city center, is part of [[Finnish national road 12|Highway 12]] in the direction of [[Lahti]]. This highway also runs through the center of Tampere under the name [[Paasikiven–Kekkosentie]],<ref name=louhivaara/>{{rp|pp=75, 77}} below the downtown as the [[Tampere Tunnel]], which is the longest [[road tunnel]] built in Finland for car traffic.<ref name=yle_2016-11-15/>

Tampere is served by [[Tampere–Pirkkala Airport]], located in neighboring municipality [[Pirkkala]] some {{cvt|13|km|0}} southwest of the city, and it replaced the former Härmälä Airport, which was closed in 1979.<ref name=aamulehti_2018-05-17/> The current airport is connected to the city centre of Tampere by bus route 103, and to that of Pirkkala by bus route 39.<ref name=finavia_2021/>

[[File:Train from Helsinki to Kolari stopping at Tampere.jpg|thumb|Train from [[Helsinki]] to [[Kolari]] stopping at Tampere]]

The public transport network in Tampere currently consists of a bus network and two lines of [[Tampere light rail|city's light rail]], operating from 9 August 2021.<ref name=urban-transport-magazine/> The [[Tampere Bus Station]], designed by Jaakko Laaksovirta and [[Bertel Strömmer]], representing [[Functionalism (architecture)|functionalist architecture]], was completed in 1938,<ref name=sk_1938-12-17/><ref name=sapyska/>{{rp|pp=203–204}} being the largest bus station in the [[Nordic countries]] at the time,<ref name=uta/> and between 1948 and 1976, the city also had an extensive [[trolleybus]] network, which was also the largest trolleybus system in Finland.<ref name=alameri/> As of 2017, [[commuter rail]] service on the railroad lines connecting Tampere to the neighbouring towns of [[Nokia, Finland|Nokia]] and [[Lempäälä]] is being established.<ref name=tase/>

In 2015, the Port of Tampere,<ref name=unece/> the charter port area carrying passengers on the shores of [[Lake Näsijärvi]] and [[Pyhäjärvi (Tampere region)|Lake Pyhäjärvi]],<ref name=hopealinjat/> was the busiest [[inland waterway]] in Finland in terms of the number of passengers (71,750).<ref name=liikennevirasto/> A partial explanation for the high number of passengers can be found in the summer traffic to the [[Viikinsaari]] island in Lake Pyhäjärvi, where people travel for an excursion or various cultural events such as watching a summer theater.<ref name=tamperelainen_2014-04-09/> Domestic passenger and connecting vessel traffic was only busier in the Finnish sea area in the [[Helsinki Metropolitan Area]], between mainland Finland and [[Åland]] in the [[Archipelago Sea]].<ref name=liikennevirasto/>

In the 2010s, Tampere has made efforts to invest in the smooth running of [[Utility cycling|cycling]] and [[walkability]].<ref name=tampere_fi_kevytliikenne/> Thanks to it, the city was awarded the title of "Cycling Municipality of the Year" in 2013.<ref name=yle_2013-03-08/> According to a survey conducted in 2015, the attractiveness of both cycling and walking had increased during 2014 and 2015.<ref name=tampere_fi_tyytyvaisyyskysely/> In any case, during the 21st century, the growth of bicycle traffic has been clearly faster than the growth of the city's population, and the number of cycles has increased by an average of about 2% per year.<ref name=tampere_fi_liikenteen_kehitys/>

=== Distances to other cities ===

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* [[Helsinki]] – {{cvt|180|km}}
* [[Hämeenlinna]] – {{cvt|79|km}}
* [[Joensuu]] – {{cvt|396|km}}
* [[Jyväskylä]] – {{cvt|150|km}}
* [[Kuopio]] – {{cvt|297|km}}
* [[Lahti]] – {{cvt|130|km}}
* [[Lappeenranta]] – {{cvt|276|km}}
* [[Oulu]] – {{cvt|490|km}}
* [[Pori]] – {{cvt|110|km}}
* [[Seinäjoki]] – {{cvt|177|km}}
* [[Turku]] – {{cvt|163|km}}
* [[Vaasa]] – {{cvt|240|km}}
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