Posts Tagged ‘transportation’

Bicycle Culture in St.Petersburg

One of the latest St Petersburg fads is bicycle riding. While bicycle culture in St Petersburg has not yet reached the Copenhagen craze, it is definitely in its blooming stage. It is fresh and cool way to explore the city, offering an entirely new perspective and a more economical and green mode of transportation.

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St.Petersburg Is Launching Night Buses

As soon as the first day of July comes, night buses catering for the citizens and visitors of St. Petersburg will start running along five specially created bus routes. The project will be working in a test mode.

The created routes are identical to those of the underground, which ensures the connection between the urban districts at nighttime, when the underground is closed.

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Transportation In Saint Petersburg. Overground Transport.

Transportation topic is getting more demanded by the tourist season in Saint Petersburg. As any big European city Saint Petersburg has a lot to offer in different town corners. As we have already discovered in the article ‘Transportation In Saint Petersburg. Underground Transport.’ Metro system is not a big network, and you will need to travel overground from time to time in order to reach some famous town spots. Here is a short guidance for you.

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Transportation In Saint Petersburg. Underground Transport.

By all means Saint Petersburg is beautiful European town, and not small one. It counts nearly 5 mln people leaving, and nearly the same number of tourists travelling inbound annually. The size of the town is about 600 sq. km, and with the suburbs, where you will definitely go to, is about 1400 sq. km. That requires a lot of travelling around! So let’s what means of transportation the town can offer to the guest, and what the wise approach to use it is.

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New Metro Station ‘Admiralteiskaya’ Is Open In Saint Petersburg

This station will be most attended by tourists due to its location: next to the Winter Palace, St. Isaac Cathedral, the Admiralty, and hundred meters away from Nevsky Prospect. Before this station was put on map most visited landmarks of Saint Petersburg were not linked to the metro network.

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Aqua-Buses In St.Petersburg Start Navigation In The End Of May

St. Petersburg aqua-taxi will open navigation season from May 25-29 (depending on ice conditions).
The Transportation Committee will locate 20 water bus-stops (mini-piers) for aqua-buses to stop by for boarding.
Aqua-buses will serve four following routes:
* “Maritime Line” (from the Staraya Derevnya

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3 New Air Connections Between St. Petersburg and Europe

Visit St. Petersburg this summer – by air! It’s never been so easy and comfortable!
Italian airline “Air One” will open new air-connection between Venice (VCE) and St. Petersburg (LED). Flights will operate starting from May 4, twice a week. The minimum fare will be € 89 for one way and for 178 round trip,

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Metropolitan Maintenance in St. Petersburg

Nevsky Prospekt-2 Metro Station of Nevsky will be closed for repairs starting from February 1 2012. The approximate period of the repairs will take 11 months. While that the station […]

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