Finnish national road 11

National Road 11
National Road 11
Valtatie 11 (Finnish); Riksväg 11 (Swedish);
Route information
	Maintained by the Finnish Transport Agency
Length	101 km (63 mi)
Existed	1938–present
Major junctions
From	Nokia
To	Pori
Location
Country	Finland
Highway system
	Highways in Finland;

Finnish national road 11 (Finnish: valtatie 11, Swedish: riksväg 11) is an east–west highway from Nokia of Pirkanmaa to Pori of Satakunta. The road is relatively short, only 101 kilometers, in addition to which the road as a whole is two-lane. Nonetheless, a highway is an important route used by industrial transportation.

The road passes through the following municipalities: Nokia - Sastamala - Kokemäki - Ulvila - Pori. Since the Sastamala and Kiikoinen joined together in 2013, this is currently the only highway in Finland that runs entirely in the territory of the municipalities using the town or city title.

The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and the City of Pori plan to continue Highway 11 from their current terminus, the interchange of Highway 2, south of Pori Airport, to Highway 8, where a new interchange would be built.^[1]

History

In the 1938 numbering system, national road 11 ran from Tampere to Pori. At that time, the route was quite winding as it ran along national road 9 to the center of Nokia and continued on via Siuro in Nokia along the current road 2505 to Salmi. At Salmi the highways split and national road 11 continued along current regional road 259 through Mouhijärvi, Suodenniemi and Lavia, then along current regional road 257 and road 2550 to Kullaa and via Ruosniemi to Pori.

In the 1996 numbering reform, the section from Tampere to Nokia became a portion of national road 12.

Sources

Autoilijan tiekartta 2007. AffectoGenimap Finland Oy, 2006. ISBN 978-951-593-047-7.
"020202 – Kartat" (in Finnish). Fonecta. 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
"Eniro Kartat ja reitit" (in Finnish). Eniro. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
"Google Maps" (in Finnish). Google Maps. 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
Grönroos, Matti. "Valtatie 11 Nokia–Pori, 97 km" (in Finnish). Retrieved November 17, 2020.

References

^ "Osallistumis- ja arviointisuunnitelma (Dnro KAUS/154/2008, VP § 5/25.1.2008)". Porin kaupunkisuunnittelu (in Finnish). Porin kaupunki. January 25, 2008. Archived from the original on August 12, 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2020.

External links

Media related to National road 11 (Finland) at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Osallistumis- ja arviointisuunnitelma (Dnro KAUS/154/2008, VP § 5/25.1.2008)". Porin kaupunkisuunnittelu (in Finnish). Porin kaupunki. January 25, 2008. Archived from the original on August 12, 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2020.

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