Comments by "weetikissa" (@weetikissa) on "Why Helsinki is Tearing Up Its Freeways" video.

Visit Holland once in your life. Please.
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@Skyfoogle Demolish highways and parking and build dense transit-reliant housing in their place. Paris has the same population density as Manhattan because they don't waste space on single-person cars like New York does. Each car needs at least two parking spots and enough space to travel between them. That's the space of a small apartment wasted on one person's commuting which can usually be done by bike or streetcar instead.
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@Jesusswe91 Try this: they will get to work a lot faster because their streetcars and buses are no longer slowed down by single-person cars. At least that's the big problem in Helsinki.
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@Skyfoogle The Helsinki region has 1.3 million people, 25% of the entire country. The national government is planning on building trains to the closest other cities that would put more than 50% of the whole country's population within 1 to 1.5 hour's reach from downtown Helsinki by train (plus bus), even more as Helsinki and other cities in south-southwestern Finland keep booming like crazy. You couldn't do that with cars because they take about 2 hours when there's no traffic even though it's all highways from downtown to downtown the whole way. Downtown Helsinki is on a narrow peninsula so small, that it's practically an island connected to everything else with massive bridges. Only so many cars can fit on Helsinki's limited road network that the city has to think of other ways to get more people in and out of the city. These commuters from outside the city that you mention are tired of sitting in endless traffic on bridges as locals are taking their cars to do shopping. The locals are tired of having to take the car to go shopping because biking still feels dangerous and the buses and trams/streetcars are stuck behind cars. What the city is doing is looking at what modes of transport are used on what roads and reassigning the space accordingly, so as to best fit the needs of the people and not have economic growth be hindered by people struggling to get from one place to another. According to the city, only 25% of trips in Helsinki are done by car, so why do they get 75% of the street and most of the transportation budget? Despite the sub-arctic climate, Helsinki has the world's most popular bike-sharing scheme; why can't bicyclists have their own lanes where they feel safe and seen? Why not have more people living on this end of the highway rather than the other?
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@Skyfoogle Forgot to add that owning a car costs a lot of money. Several hundred euros a month that people could use on domestic consumption. Let's stop shoveling all that money to Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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Nope, people will live closer to where they need to be.
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Finland doesn't like having to pay Russia and Saudi Arabia for a commodity which they don't actually need.
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