Traffic Jams and Train Delays Cause Chaos for St. Petersburg Residents on Hot July Sunday

2023-07-16 17:51:05

Many Petersburgers decided to spend the hot July Sunday on the beaches of the Kurortny district and in more remote places of the Karelian Isthmus. Rest ends with a stuffy expectation: both in trains and on highways.

Photos and videos from the train, which was supposed to leave Komarovo on July 16 at 18:50 in the direction of the city, were sent to Fontanka by passengers. People have to hold on to each other or to the ceiling, obviously, having gathered everyone in Zelenogorsk, Komarovo, Repino and Solnechny, the train can no longer accommodate those who wish from suburban settlements such as Pargolovo and Levashovo. People return from holidays with dogs, bicycles and luggage.

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According to Fontanka readers, this train should already be at the Finland Station. According to the schedule, she was supposed to arrive at 19:40, but she did not get there by eight o’clock in the evening. According to the aggregators, all subsequent trains in the direction from Zelenogorsk are also delayed.

Photo: Fontanka reader

Photo: Fontanka reader

Photo: Fontanka reader

Photo: Fontanka reader

Photo: Fontanka reader

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The picture is no better in the direction from Sestroretsk. “On the train that was running at 19:15 today, it was just tinny – the crowd got in at the Kurort, was added at Sestroretsk, as a result, on Razliv and Aleksandrovskaya, people already stormed the train, they mightn’t get in,” readers share. There is also a delay on this line, but for a few minutes. Storming the crowded vestibules, the machinists are forced to wait until people push the crowd deep into the train or resign themselves and remain on the platform.

Trains run almost every 10 minutes. Fontanka asked the North-West Suburban Passenger Company, which provides electric trains in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, regarding the reasons for the delays.

Previously, the “Organizer of Transportation” had to change the route of the 310th bus, the roadway near the sanatoriums “Dunes” and “White Nights” near Sestroretsk was so parked that the bus might not pass there. By half past eight the route was the same.

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Traffic jams at the entrance to St. Petersburg continue to grow. “Just a hell of a traffic jam from Priozersk to St. Petersburg. The navigator writes: 7 hours 20 minutes. There were even 8, ”complains a Fontanka reader. The longest traffic jams: on the Sortavala highway (according to Yandex.Maps, regarding 18 km before Losevo and almost 14 km before the intersection with the Ring Road), on Toksovskoye Highway (regarding 10 km), on the Road of Life (10 km), on “Scandinavia” (9 km), on “Kola” (17 km, but not so dense), on the road from Lebyazhye through Bolshaya Izhora (17 km with breaks). Traffic jams in the north formed in the first half of the day, when part of the WHSD was closed. Entrances from the south are freer.

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UPD: Later, SZPPK reported that commuter trains on the Beloostrov-Levashovo stretch followed with a delay of up to 30 minutes due to technical reasons. By 22:00 traffic was restored. OJD apologizes for the inconvenience caused.

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