The decoration of Saint Petersburg Metro (Kirovsky Zavod Station)
Trolleybus on Nevsky Avenue
Saint
Petersburg has an extensive city-funded network of public transport
(buses, trams,trolleybuses) and several hundred routes served by
marshrutkas. Trams in Saint Petersburg used to be the main transport; in
the 1980s, Leningrad had the largest tramway network in the world, but
many tramway rail tracks were dismantled in the 2000s (decade).
Buses
carry up to three million passengers daily, serving over 250 urban and a
number of suburban bus routes. Saint Petersburg Metro underground rapid
transit system was opened in 1955; it now has five lines with 64
stations, connecting all five railway terminals, and carrying 3.4
million passengers daily. Metro stations are often elaborately
decorated; with examples of materials used being marble and bronze.
Traffic
jams are common in the city, because of high daily traffic volumes
between the commuter boroughs and the city centre, intercity traffic,
and at times excessive snow in winter. The construction of the Saint
Petersburg Ring Road was finished in 2011.
Saint Petersburg is part
of the important transport corridor linking Scandinavia to Russia and
Eastern Europe. The city is a node of the international European routes
E18 towards Helsinki, E20 towards Tallinn, E95 towards Pskov, Kiev and
Odessa and E105 towards Petrozavodsk, Murmansk and Kirkenes (north) and
towards Moscow and Kharkiv (south).
Hydrofoil docking in St.Petersburg upon arrival from Peterhof Palace (2008).
Waterways
The
city is also served by the passenger and cargo seaports in the Neva Bay
of the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea, the river port higher up the Neva,
and tens of smaller passenger stations on both banks of the Neva river.
It is a terminus of the Volga-Baltic and White Sea-Baltic waterways
