The reds are main roads, the yellows are country roads and the greens are motorways
These colour options make it look like one of those “are you colour blind”-tests
The black ones are roundabouts
Not completely irrelevant but what feels different than some other European countries is that sometimes there could be nothing in 50km distance in those red roads, and with yellow ones its more common to have nothing in between.
There are of course mökit and random farm houses but no stores, eateries or gas stations
A key feature is the density in different parts of the country and the proportion of north-south roads compared to the east-west roads.
There’s a reason why there aren’t many bigger roads going on East-West axis across the Russian border. Think about the Russian army’s early advance towards Kiev on that [highway](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Kyiv_convoy) which was luckily (against all odds) stopped – mainly due to their extreme incompetence.
The image paints a pretty sad picture.
r/ShittyMapPorn
What are they called in Finnish?
And what’s the difference between highways and motorways? Always thought they were interchangeable
didn’t know Finland was a one huge motorway
All of green? /s
And the ‘motorways’ mostly dont even have more than 2 lanes!
Is it missing the motorway around Seinäjoki?
With the taxes we pay we should have six parallel autobahns running north to south.
Instead our dear leaders have opted for the tactic of improving roads in Europe.
So when is the four lane highway from Helsinki to Rovaniemi happening?
Where are the road ferries?
But why are the speed limits so low? There is no traffic and loads of grip…
I wanna see a map with all the Mökkities included!
Notice how major roads leading to Russia basically does not exist.
Finnish highway network
Motorways (moottoritie) in green
Class I highways (valtatie) in red
Class II highways (kantatie) in yellow
I appreciate how they’ve built those green roads for the people trapped in that one dot by the southern coast. A show of societal solidarity trying to ensure those people have escape routes.
It’s like all Finnish cities are spread out to be as far away as possible from other cities
The light green means motorway too.. but only if you are really brave
Could yall explain what the difference between the motorways and highways? Theyre both 120km roads right?
You can drive at 120km/h only in the southern highways between april and october. Otherwise the top speed is 100 or 80 on smaller roads.
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The reds are main roads, the yellows are country roads and the greens are motorways
These colour options make it look like one of those “are you colour blind”-tests
The black ones are roundabouts
Not completely irrelevant but what feels different than some other European countries is that sometimes there could be nothing in 50km distance in those red roads, and with yellow ones its more common to have nothing in between.
There are of course mökit and random farm houses but no stores, eateries or gas stations
A key feature is the density in different parts of the country and the proportion of north-south roads compared to the east-west roads.
There’s a reason why there aren’t many bigger roads going on East-West axis across the Russian border. Think about the Russian army’s early advance towards Kiev on that [highway](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Kyiv_convoy) which was luckily (against all odds) stopped – mainly due to their extreme incompetence.
The image paints a pretty sad picture.
r/ShittyMapPorn
What are they called in Finnish?
And what’s the difference between highways and motorways? Always thought they were interchangeable
didn’t know Finland was a one huge motorway
All of green? /s
And the ‘motorways’ mostly dont even have more than 2 lanes!
Is it missing the motorway around Seinäjoki?
With the taxes we pay we should have six parallel autobahns running north to south.
Instead our dear leaders have opted for the tactic of improving roads in Europe.
So when is the four lane highway from Helsinki to Rovaniemi happening?
Where are the road ferries?
But why are the speed limits so low? There is no traffic and loads of grip…
Now zoom in with this: https://asiointi.maanmittauslaitos.fi/karttapaikka/
There aren’t many places that you can’t reach(or get very close to) by road here.
I recommend the data viewing portal from the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency [https://paikkatieto.vaylapilvi.fi/suomen-vaylat/?lang=en](https://paikkatieto.vaylapilvi.fi/suomen-vaylat/?lang=en)
I wanna see a map with all the Mökkities included!
Notice how major roads leading to Russia basically does not exist.
Finnish highway network
Motorways (moottoritie) in green
Class I highways (valtatie) in red
Class II highways (kantatie) in yellow
I appreciate how they’ve built those green roads for the people trapped in that one dot by the southern coast. A show of societal solidarity trying to ensure those people have escape routes.
It’s like all Finnish cities are spread out to be as far away as possible from other cities
The light green means motorway too.. but only if you are really brave
Could yall explain what the difference between the motorways and highways? Theyre both 120km roads right?
You can drive at 120km/h only in the southern highways between april and october. Otherwise the top speed is 100 or 80 on smaller roads.