400km of bike trails is an insane amount for a small town, assuming they aren’t counting bike lanes. I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that in bike or MUTs.
> I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that
And this sad.
It's above average for sure. As a counterexample, take the city of Münster, which covers twice the area of Freiburg and is often praised as one of the most bike-friendly cities in Germany. It only claims to have 300km of bike lanes.
> > I doubt any of the 1M+ pop cities I’ve lived in came anywhere close to that
> And this sad.
There are a lot of 1M+ cities that have more than that. Just from personal experience:
* Munich - 1,200 km
* Berlin - 422 km
* Toronto - 973 km
* Metro Vancouver - 4,600 km
But comparing the cumulative length of bike-paths is a bit of a silly comparison anyway.
I'd guess the coverage of bike paths in Freiburg and Oulu might be very similar. It's the cities that are not comparable. Finnish municipalities often have the size of German county (Landkreis), but not even the population of a German city.
(I have lived in Germany and Finland. But have never visited Freiburg and it's decades that I biked in or even visited Oulu the last time.)