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Add it to the long list of popular misconceptions about Sweden in general, most of which are held by the Swedes themselves, lol.

• dijit 5y ago
  It’s not all of Sweden though. I live in Malmo and I haven’t felt the need to drive at all. There are people who drive of course by the bulk of the city feels like it’s for the pedestrians and cyclists, and driving through the city itself is simply awkward. I moved here from London. If that helps lay context.
  • null_object 5y ago
    The city council in Stockholm in the 60s had a plan to empty what they saw was the slum-center of the town, the residents of which they felt were morally degenerate, and move them out to the suburbs. The working classes would then commute into work on public transport, while ‘fine’ office workers would take their car. The cachet attached to traveling by car has never been lost, and any attempt to curtail car use is always met with enormous resistance ever since. Looking at pictures of Stockholm in the 40s and 50s one can see the streets were full of cyclists.