Solna/Sundbyberg/Stockholm MidsummerEve walkabout

[Swede]

After dropping the wife of at work in the late afternoon, I took a walk along the new Tvärbana LRT extension that's slated to start service later this year. At the start of the series we're at the furthest new station and that last one-station stretch is about a year behind the rest of the line (i.e. construction still on-going and expected to open late next year).

The order is the one in which I took 'em.

These were all taken with my phone cam, som don't expect greatness in quality :\

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...and at this point the battery ran out. Hope you enjoyed my humble photo-walk

[Kingofthehill]

interesting thread. this part of stockholm looks pretty depressing. it seems to have more in common with outer berlin or riga than copenhagen or oslo. how far are these areas from the city center?

[Swede]

They're about 5-6 km from the Central station, or about 2.5-4 km from the nearest edge of the urban core. Parts of Sundbyberg (pics 60-67 roughly) do have real urbanity of it's own tho.
This is actually a pretty lively part of Stockholm for being outside the core, and plenty of re-development going on, e.g. the football stadium is getting torn down soon and a few fairly decent city blocks built in its place. After the LRT opens the mood will change quite a bit along most of the line.

Stockholm is at 2.1M for the metro, but only about 300k of those live in the urban inner city. The rest of us live in suburbs of one type or another.

[Kingofthehill]

which inner-city areas of stockholm do you recommend checking out? next month, i will go there to visit a friend who is moving to söldermalm. don't really know a whole lot about the city proper, though.

[Swede]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

which inner-city areas of Stockholm do you recommend checking out? next month, i will go there to visit a friend who is moving to söldermalm. don't really know a whole lot about the city proper, though.

I'd say the whole inner city is nice. The usual haunts for tourists is Gamla Stan (the Old Town) which is totally worth exploring. The area we (confusingly) call City (i.e. Downtown) has a few gritty backstreets, but all of it exploration-friendly during the day. As you is a SSP:er I'd also suggest going to the Stockholmer Bygger exhibit at Kulturhuset and checking out the City Museum and maybe the Medieval museum.

IMO it's more a case of places outside the inner city being worth a visit.
Try taking the Green subway line west to Alvik, and then ride the Tvärbana LRT (line 22 iirc) all the way to it's other end. Will give you a nice tour of several of the innermost suburbs. It's this line that's going to be extended with the stretch I walked today (tho that's in the other direction from Alvik). You'll end up in Hammarby Sjöstad which is a nice new area (minor industrial area re-named & redeveloped in the last 15 years) that also has a free little ferry to Södermalm. Along the route is also Gröndal and Liljeholmen, both real nice, one old and one new.

[SHiRO]

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

[Nightsky]

Good job, Swede! These kind of areas are what you see most of in swedish cities, and not the small scale wooden houses and old churches that tourists might think.

[lunajoseph]

Thanks for he thread...especially the picture of the gatukök! I used to live close-by in Alvik Any word on extending the tunnelbana to Nacka?

[ColDayMan]

Thanks for this tour!

[dc_denizen]

Looks exactly like suburban, eastern/northern side of Helsinki, maybe on a larger scale and more built up. Small housing towers and warehouses/factories, and rail lines and highways with sidewalks and bike paths; the bedrock popping up every now and then. Whereas Tampere and Turku look very different.

You showed few single family homes, these exist but are farther from the train tracks I imagine? Or are these somehow in a different suburban region?

In Helsinki, the single family stuff is more on the western and northern suburbs while the east is more commieblock as befits its working class nature (although many types of housing a strewn about the suburbs).

Compare to Copenhagen, with its massive, row-house grid built environment.

[Swede]

Originally Posted by SHiRO

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Thanks for this tour!

De nada

Originally Posted by Nightsky

Good job, Swede! These kind of areas are what you see most of in swedish cities, and not the small scale wooden houses and old churches that tourists might think.

Yeah, Stockholm/Sweden isn't just small wooden houses and historical cities.

Originally Posted by dc_denizen

Looks exactly like suburban, eastern/northern side of Helsinki, maybe on a larger scale and more built up. Small housing towers and warehouses/factories, and rail lines and highways with sidewalks and bike paths; the bedrock popping up every now and then. Whereas Tampere and Turku look very different.

I haven't been to Helsinki really (only a day-trip), but afaik the two cities/metro areas are fairly similar in both planning and geographical features.

Originally Posted by dc_denizen

You showed few single family homes, these exist but are farther from the train tracks I imagine? Or are these somehow in a different suburban region?

They do exist, yeah, some in a couple of small areas near my path, but mostly in other parts of the region. This far in they're uncommon tho. Even with the very different planning history from, say, the average US metro, the low-density sprawl is mostly at the edges. Mostly. There is some pretty close in that even have their own subway stations!

[Swede]

Originally Posted by lunajoseph

Thanks for he thread...especially the picture of the gatukök! I used to live close-by in Alvik Any word on extending the tunnelbana to Nacka?

I was planning on ending it with pics from Alvik. There's some new construction going on there, including a 16s residential tower near the water. But the battery got too low :\

It now seems like the Blue line to Nacka will happen relatively soon. The Greens and the SocialDemocrats have launched their own plans for a fourth subway line, and a combo of Skanska, MTR and Sweco (the first two are the internationally known ones, the last a Swedish engineering consulting company) launched another such plan as part of a "Stockholm 2070"-study. But the Blue line to Nacka has gotten to the point that the planning offices of the two municipalities concerned and the county have been studying route alternatives. From what I've heard they're not 100% in agreement with eachother tho, so that'll be fun. And of course the politicians have to be ready to commit money. All the parties but the Greens and the Left (ex-communists) are hell-bent on building a motorway bypass tunnel that isn't even useful for traffic passing the metro completely.
In the end I now expect the Blur line to Nacka to start building within 10 years, and it'll take over one the Green line's southern branches.
More on that over on SSC's Stockholm sub-forum.