Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.
The city’s most recent fatal accident occurred in early July 2024 on Keinulaudantie in the city’s Kontula district.
Authorities are calling the situation exceptional.
“A lot of factors contributed to this, but speed limits are one of the most important,” said Roni Utriainen, a traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division.
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According to Utriainen, more than half of Helsinki’s streets now have a speed limit of 30 km/h. Fifty years ago, that proportion featured 50 km/h limits.
Earlier this summer, Helsinki decided to lower speed limits near schools to 30 km/h, a measure that is set to take effect as the academic year begins.
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I mean, Ferrari, Bugatti, Porche, Mazzaratti, Lamborghini are all European cars. It’s not only in the US.
Sorry, but your spelling was too funny and I have to nitpick. Porsche and Maserati*
I said funny because you might want to look up what “porche” means in colloquial Italian.
Indeed these are generally super/sports car, and you see very few of them in Europe, except for exceptionally rich places. Even in Europe though you see many SUV in cities and I started seeing more and more huge tanks (like pickup-trucks), which I think are more common in US right now.
My bad. You can tell how much I don’t like (these) cars. Which language did I spell wrong? Is it still German?
I distinguish between SUVs that are big and stupid but are not severely bad to these stupid Dodge RAM like cars that rarely have an excuse for them.
But yes, people get addicted to big cars that 90% of the time don’t justify the cost (in multiple terms)
Porsche is German I believe. Maserati is Italian.
Yeah indeed they are not comparable. I have a huge pickup truck in my building and is on another scale. The problem is also that it’s a vicious circle, the more you see cars this big on the road, the more you don’t want to be the only one with what looks like a go-kart in comparison.
Oh, I was thinking of giant trucks, I don’t think the general middle age people has Ferrari money though.
Jajaja I didn’t think of them…
I believe that both should be banned from the heart if cities. For pretty much the same reasons.
(Honestly, from city centres, I think that all cars should be bannes, but I’m extremist in that sense)
I still don’t get the appeal to ban supercars in cities, I feel like I’ve seen like 2 of them in my whole life. Where do you live that their presence is prominent enough to ask for a ban?