Roads in Finland

The classification and numbering system of state-maintained roads of Finland is as follows: Streets are maintained by the local municipality.

Connecting and local roads are usually not marked with numbers, but just with ordinary traffic signs.

Since Finland is a large and sparsely populated country, there is no need to upgrade all highways to motorways.

Some ice roads, which form seasonally, depending on temperature, are maintained by the state, the longest one being the 7 km (4 mi) Koli Ice Road, which cuts 50 km (31 mi) off the distance between Lieksa and Koli.

Lemminkäinen and seven smaller companies were convicted of forming a price cartel to overcharge local authorities millions of euros for road paving work (asphalt).

In 1999 the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland ruled that the companies colluded on prices and other matters at least between 1994 and 2002.