Länsimetro Oy announced that 8 stations and 14 km of metro extension from Ruoholahti to Matinkylä in in the Helsinki metropolitan area will be put into service on 15 August 2016. The various systems will be tested independently, per station, and together during the spring. Trains will begin test runs in March.
Excavation works began in November 2009. The tunnels had been dug by February 2014, and the tracks had been laid by December 2015.
Länsimetro Oy is a company jointly owned by the Cities of Espoo and Helsinki, tasked with building the West Metro underground line that is implemented in two phases. The stations along the 14-km Ruoholahti–Matinkylä section is be located in Lauttasaari and Koivusaari in Helsinki, and in Keilaniemi, Otaniemi, Tapiola, Urheilupuisto, Niittykumpu and Matinkylä in Espoo. The 7-kilometre Matinkylä–Kivenlahti section of the rail line will be completed in the second phase, and it will include 5 new stations: Finnoo, Kaitaa, Soukka, Espoonlahti and Kivenlahti. An underground metro depot will be constructed in Sammalvuori.
The construction of the Matinkylä–Kivenlahti section is under way. This stretch will be completed in 2020.
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