TALLINN - Mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar visited Helsinki to discuss with Mayor of Helsinki Jussi Pajunen the building of a railway tunnel between Estonia and Finland.
Savisaar and Pajunen are to discuss the rail tunnel feasibility study and its financing, the Tallinn press service informed BNS.
The issue of the Estonian-Finnish rail tunnel has been on the agenda with varied success since the mid-1990s. Savisaar has discussed the issue with the mayor of Helsinki several times in the past few years.
Savisaar and Pajunen agreed on this non-official meeting at their spring meeting in Tallinn.
The mayors will also discuss Tallinn becoming a European capital of cultural in 2011 and opportunities of organizing joint events.