Kaisantunneli Bicycle Garage
A new park-and-ride facility in central Helsinki, which can accommodate nearly 900 bicycles.
The Bicycle Garage located in Kaisantunneli tunnel was opened on 1 July 2024. Managed by Metropolitan Area Transport Ltd, the garage has nearly 900 parking spaces for bicycles.
The Bicycle Garage is a new, notable park-and-ride facility in central Helsinki, which will significantly improve the provision of services supporting cycling in central Helsinki. The Bicycle Garage is designed to accommodate the requirements of different types of bicycles.
Opening hours
Mon–Sun 5:00–23:00
The Bicycle Garage offers the following services
- frame-locking parking spaces
- bicycle washing station
- bicycle maintenance station
- possibility to charge electric bicycle batteries (free of charge in the pilot stage)
- water point
- item storage lockers
- bicycle maintenance service subject to a fee offered by a private bicycle maintenance company (Helsingin Pyörähuolto Oy)
Helsinki Central Station is one of Finland’s busiest public transport hubs. The goal is to increase the appeal of cycling and public transport by offering a secure and easy-to-use indoor bicycle garage at a central location in the heart of Helsinki.
The Bicycle Garage features frame-locking racks for as many bikes as possible, taking into account the requirements of different types of bicycles as well as various supporting services for cycling.
Bicycles can be stored in the Bicycle Garage for up to 10 days at a time. Bicycles stored for longer will be moved to the City’s bicycle depot by Parking Control.
Bicycle Garage services developed in stages
The Kaisantunneli Bicycle Garage is a pilot project, which is being developed in stages. The aim is to develop solutions that can be duplicated in other park-and-ride facilities in the future. Security has been identified as the most important objective in bicycle storage, which is why the Bicycle Garage was designed with the aim of finding solutions that guarantee both security and good usability.
At the initial stage of the pilot project, the Bicycle Garage’s access control is based on the HSL card: you can enter the garage by showing your HSL card to the reader at the door. Any HSL card will work, even though the reader is not the same as the ones found on public transport vehicles. At this stage, using the Bicycle Garage does not require registration.
In the autumn, registration as a user of the Bicycle Garage will become mandatory and users will be required to link their HSL card to their customer account. After registration, the HSL card will serve as a key to the garage. Registration will improve the security of the parking facility.
HSL and its partners are currently evaluating a new technical solution for the Bicycle Garage access control that is not based on the use of the HSL card. The aim is to have the new solution in place as soon as possible, but the exact schedule is not yet known.
In the pilot stage, users of the Bicycle Garage can charge their electric bike batteries free of charge while parked in the Bicycle Garage. Cyclists who wish to do so will need to bring their own charger, however.
Metropolitan Area Transport Ltd and HSL will be monitoring and collecting feedback on the use of the Bicycle Garage.