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Car traffic is still prioritised, the new slussen is still an 8 lane highway right through the middle of the city, and the biggest reason it's downsized is that the ring road is now finished. And the biggest reason why Stockholm is managing to be so "car free" is because the highways are in tunnels underground.

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I do think it is an improvement that they nowadays put cars in tunnels and people above ground.

But it would of course be much better if they had spent all that money they used for car tunnels on public transport and more bicycle lanes and highways.

Stockholm is not car free by any standards. On the opposite it’s very car friendly.

Too car friendly for my taste and I don’t get why people drive so much.

Stockholm is small enough that it’s walkable with fast public transport connecting everything.

I don’t think it ever took me over 30 minutes to get anywhere, none of my friends drive in town but over half of them own a car so we are often traveling north for skiing, south for the summer, weekends in someone’s parent’s farm, but I have no recent memory of driving around town, there’s just no need, plus, no drinking, so it’s a nonstarter.

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