Finnish regional road 280


Finnish regional road 280, or Somero Road, is the road between highway 52 and road 110. At the southern end it starts near the village of Näkkilä in Lohja, Uusimaa and at the northern end from the town centre of Somero, Southwest Finland.
The road has traditionally formed the most important road connection between Somero and Helsinki. However, after Highway 1 was completed as a motorway, it has been found that the connection road 2410 leading from Highway 1 to Somero via Kiikala offers an almost equally fast route from Somero to Helsinki; although the journey is longer, the longer section of motorway is said to increase safety. Before the current Highway 2 was completed in the 1960s, the section of current regional road 280 from the intersection of current in Nummi-Pusula to current road 52 in Somero was part of Highway 2.
The initial part of the road is dominated by cultivated valleys with villages, into which the edge formations of the second and third Salpausselkä with their longitudinal ridges intertwine in Pusula and Somerniemi, and the ridges also continue in Somero. There are no fewer than three manors along the road in Somero. Also, in the village of Hirsjärvi, about from the town centre of Somero and about from Somerniemi, there is a kiosk along the regional road that is served as a memorial to singer Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki since 1997.

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