[Benji_San]

Turku here, which is also considered to be a cycling town. I was really shocked to see Finland placed fourth on the list of bike friendly countries. I'll admit that most bike lanes on the countryside are great but the bike lanes in cities are generally not safe to ride on. Both pedestrians and drivers have no idea that they should take bikes into consideration when moving around. Most bike lanes are poorly marked and are blocked by bus stops, dooring areas, stopped cars, pedestrians, snow dumps and dead ends. There's no consistency and impossible to follow all the rules and not get killed if you bike as your primary transportation.

Ranking countries in terms of cycling friendliness is also kinda misleading as countries are on completely different levels. The Netherlands and Denmark are leaps and bounds ahead of Sweden, Sweden is leaps and bounds ahead of Finland.