Finnish national road 1
road in Finland
The Finnish national road 1 (Finnish: Valtatie 1 or Finnish: Ykköstie; Swedish: Riksväg 1) is the main route between the major cities of Helsinki and Turku in southern Finland. It runs from Munkkiniemi in Helsinki to the VI District of Turku, and is part of the European route E18. The road is a motorway for its whole length.
History
In the 1938 numbering system, the road between Helsinki and Turku was designated Highway 1. The construction of Highway 1 was one of the earliest highway projects in Finland, with construction beginning in the 1930s and completed in stages by 1951. Although modern for its time, the road's performance and safety deteriorated as traffic volumes increased and before the motorway sections were built, Highway 1 was winding, hilly and congested. The hills proved to be a problem, especially with heavy traffic, for which separate crawling lanes were built in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the ends of these lanes proved to be accident-prone, when heavy traffic merged with other traffic. The crawling lanes were converted into passing lanes in the 1980s, but accidents continued. Highway 1 also ran through the center of Salo until the late 1970s, when a bypass was built on a budget that bypassed Salo to the north, but this ran through a built-up area and capacity was limited due to several traffic lights.
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