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Yeah, that sounds really strange. Not sure how it is elsewhere in Europe, but in Finland whoever builds it, maintains it. Intercity road and rail networks are a
by Sharlin 2y ago
Yeah, that sounds really strange. Not sure how it is elsewhere in Europe, but in Finland whoever builds it, maintains it. Intercity road and rail networks are all owned and managed by the state, and that’s actually how the equivalents of "road" and "street" are defined within the field: anything owned by the state is a road, anything owned by the municipality is a street.
In recent years there have been plans to "boulevardize" some major arterials within city boundaries, meaning the city takes over responsibility of the road segment and turns it into a street with lower speed limits, multimodal access, and so on. The intention is, of course, to facilitate urban development in the corridor.
- dmurray 2y agoFinland joined the EU too late and too rich, perhaps. In other countries the EU was the main source of funds for building motorways, but doesn't own them or maintain them.
- Sharlin 2y agoHmm, perhaps. These days you can still get 30-50% from the EU but essentially only if it’s part of TEN-T or maybe some Green Deal related project. The core network of major roads in Finland can be kept in a good shape, the issue is largely the thousands of kms of secondary and tertiary roads in the middle of nowhere that have too little traffic to be any sort of a maintenance priority, or to be eligible for EU funding. But you can’t really help it in a country that’s as sparsely populated as Finland outside major urban areas.