Lauttasaari bridge

The mainland end is in Salmisaari in the Ruoholahti district, with the Porkkalankatu street leading to the city centre.

Formerly it used to be opened regularly to allow large cargo ships to transport coal to the pier of the Salmisaari power plant underneath it.

[1] Nowadays the coal harbour of the plant has been moved to the south of the bridge, where the coal is transported to a larger storage space underneath the plant, built in 2004, via an underground tunnel.

[5] At the same time, the Jorvaksentie road leading west of Lauttasaari, predecessor of the Länsiväylä highway, was built.

As the population of Lauttasaari grew in the 1950s with further construction and new residential districts such as Tapiola were built in southern Espoo, the old bridge soon became too narrow.