{"id":81391,"date":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:50:21","slug":"helsinkis-bold-step-investing-in-cycling-and-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/81391\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki&#8217;s Bold Step: Investing in Cycling and Public Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki, Finland&#8217;s capital, has embarked on a significant journey to boost its public transport and cycling infrastructure, drawing varied responses from its residents.<\/p>\n<p>In April, about 50,000 people attended the opening of a 1.2-km bridge, hailed as Finland&#8217;s longest. This project, which cost 326 million euros and extends over two adjacent bridges and tramway investments, has stirred debate due to its exclusion of car lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The city, amid criticisms, plans further expansions of its cycle path network. Despite heavy investments, cycling rates in the city remain between 9% to 11%, attributed to the incomplete network, according to Oskari Kaupinmaki, Helsinki&#8217;s bicycle traffic team leader.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helsinki, Finland&#8217;s capital, has embarked on a significant journey to boost its public transport and cycling infrastructure, drawing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[43268,43267,21299,43270,43266,158,113,43269,2695,24547,16075],"class_list":{"0":"post-81391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-helsinki","8":"tag-bicycle-lanes","9":"tag-bridge-project","10":"tag-city-planning","11":"tag-cycle-paths","12":"tag-cycling-infrastructure","13":"tag-finland","14":"tag-helsinki","15":"tag-pedestrian-friendly","16":"tag-public-transport","17":"tag-traffic-management","18":"tag-urban-development"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116566414437570726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}