In Malmö you have no (proper) metro. The Stockholm metro had about 800k trips per day iirc.
IF you work in Stockholm you probably commute by commuter train and or bus into the city, where in Malmö you can walk through the city center in 15 minutes so biking or owning a car to commute with is the norm.
In Malmö most stores close at 5pm, and malls much earlier than in Stockholm so they are visited on weekends instead of whenever (this also sucks since there is nothing to do after work), FNM starts at something like 15:30.
It's just a lot fewer crowds and situations with close contact in general.
Interesting but not surprising website. I visited Stockholm for the first time recently and I was impressed with the usage of tech to increase everyday efficiencies. Things like: app for the rail station tickets/yellow cabs/buses, electric/hybrid vehicles commonplace, free wifi in abundance...
That one was interesting, but seems to be missing some data about regional trains in Sweden. Even though commuter trains around Stockholm seem reasonably correct.
I lived in a Swedish city of a similar size. They had a tram network that was dismantled bit by bit until it was completely shut down in 1973 because it was seen as unmodern. And now 40 years later they're all talking about building trams again since they're so modern...
Walking from Globen (the sun) to Naturhistoriska (the earth) could be made into a quite nice 10 km walk, with possible detours to see much of the old worker's town of Södermalm, the old town, the city center around Klara/Norrmalm, the urban residential area Sibirien, the university and finally ending up at the science museum Naturhistoriska.
The Stockholm novels by Per Anders Fogelström starting with "City of My Dreams" largely plays out across that walk, if you're interested in the 19th/20th century evolution of the city and its working class.
The metro's art project is also pretty cool if you take the subway when you're in Stockholm, with unique artwork at each station (spanning from a few pieces almost hidden away next to the ad billboards to the whole station decorated to an elaborate theme).
Stockholm has a page on their website describing their current plan[1].
It's not as black and white as the article makes it out to be. Roads are definitely being cleared before every walkway is done, they are just prioritized higher rather than being the last on the list as it is common in other places.
I lived in Helsinki for a year about 12 years ago. Taking a ride without paying was doable.Tried to do the same in Copenhagen- had to change the train like 5 times for the sake of going 3 stops further,as there were so many inspectors. Stockholm,on the other hand, had barriers but I used to see people jumping them all the time, especially in the evening,at night.
Maybe the metro explains why there are so many more cyclists in Copenhagen than Stockholm: the daily ridership of the Copenhagen metro is 200k while the one in Stockholm has 1200k.
I wonder how they planned to route from Stockholm to Helsinki. Going around the gulf is a damn long sidetrack (1700 kilometers).
I feel rather disconnected from central Europe since the only practical way to get there involves flight or ship or a detour via St. Petersburg. On that front, this seems like an interesting project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%E2%80%93Tallinn_Tunne...
The astonishing part is the fact that in order to have self-driving cars, it seems Sweden is changing its capital city from Stockholm to Gothenburg.....
The first time I went to Stockholm my expectation was for it to be very similar to Copenhagen. It could not be more different. The downtown highway area reminds me of some dystopian hellhole.
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