The city of Helsinki will intensify monitoring of parking and stopping on bicycle lanes and paths during the cycling week from May 5th to May 14th, 2023. The move is aimed at curbing the practice, which is illegal and causes significant inconvenience and danger to cyclists. The city has received numerous complaints about the issue, prompting the special monitoring initiative.
In a city blanketed by snow for five months each year, you wouldn t blame cyclists for putting their bikes into hibernation during the winter.
But the people of Oulu, Finland, are made of stronger stuff.
Despite the long, dark, and snow-filled winters, locals keep pedalling their way to and from work and school.
Around one-in-five of all trips made in Oulu are by bike, a figure that falls to 12% in the winter. By comparison, in London, around 2% of all trips are made by bicycle. In the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Amsterdam half of all journeys are on a bike, against a third in Copenhagen. Further south in the capital Helsinki cycling, on average, represents 9% of trips.