Oulu is quietly levelling up its cycling network again. When I was there, Google Street View did not even show some of the newest bits yet, but on the ground you see fresh, high-standard cycling corridors popping up. The city has been building cycling infrastructure deliberately since the late 1960s, with paths outlined separately from motor traffic. That early decision is why the network feels coherent rather than patched together. The current “modern” layer is the Baana network: wide, two-way cycling routes surfaced in red concrete. The city’s plan is 75 km by 2030, and they report 14 km fi…
