Navigating an Intersection in Central Stockholm

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Sweden, like a good handful of European countries, is generally pretty bike-friendly, pedestrian-friendly, and has good public transport. To outsiders, the intersection might look like a jumbled mess of everyone going everywhere, but within the chaos there's dictated organization. It took me a few minutes of watching to completely figure out what's going on at this intersection. Some interesting things showed up, though. If you wanted to get from the left side of the picture to the bottom (by car), you had to go through the intersection and then take a left turn around the building in the top right to end up at the top of the intersection.

I did forget to draw a green arrow from the buses up top to the bottom (and I misspelled buses in the picture...). I'm too lazy to change it, but I'm sure you get the idea :)

Scandinavia: Snap Judgements

Internet has been really spotty out here and the connections are pretty sporadic, but here it goes.

So far I've been here almost five days, and it's been a good bit of time.

Stockholm:
-The people are really nice (and helpful as well, which is really awesome).
-Also, almost everyone knows Swedish and English. Most people seem to know a third language as well (about as well as we study a secondary language in the States).
-The city is really bike-friendly. There are bike lanes along most roads and intersections.
-Things seem a little expensive here, but I'm not a very good judge of what Swedes consider expensive
-I've had a ridiculous amount of smokes salmon and meats, though from I've heard that's not an everyday occasion
-The city itself is really beautiful and public transit works
Edit: The girls here are also very beautiful ;)

Helsinki:
-A ridiculous number of people smoke here, especially in places where there are "no smoking" signs.
-The city tends to smell really bad. Even after it rains, it doesn't have that characteristic clean smell. It still smells like crap all the time.
-The layout of the city is really organized and looks really nice.

I'd definitely have to say Stockholm is the better city :P Granted, I only spent one day in Helsinki and most of the rest of the time was spent in Stockholm.