Transport - St Petersburg - page 459

Transport
GETTING TO ST PETERSBURG
St Petersburg is well connected to the rest of Europe by plane, train, ferry and
bus links. The vast majority of travellers arrive in St Petersburg by air at
Pulkovo Airport. Flight time from London and Paris to St Petersburg is three
hours, from Berlin it's a two-hour flight, and from Moscow it's an hour.
Train is also a popular way to get here - from Moscow there are overnight
sleeper trains as well as fast four-hour day trains. See www.rzd.ru for details.
From Helsinki there are four daily Allegro express trains that take you from the
Finnish capital to St Petersburg in an impressive 3½ hours. See www.vr.fi for
prices and timetables.
An increasing number of travellers arrive at one of St Petersburg's five cruise
and ferry terminals. There are regular connections between St Petersburg and
Stockholm (22 to 24 hours), Tallinn (14 hours) and Helsinki (10 hours). See
www.stpeterline.com for prices and timetables.
Flights, tours and rail tickets can be booked online at lonelyplanet.com/
bookings .
CLIMATE CHANGE & TRAVEL
Every form of transport that relies on carbon-based fuel generates CO2, the main
cause of human-induced climate change. Modern travel is dependent on aero-
planes, which might use less fuel per kilometre per person than most cars but
travel much greater distances. The altitude at which aircraft emit gases (including
CO2) and particles also contributes to their climate change impact. Many web-
sites offer 'carbon calculators' that allow people to estimate the carbon emissions
generated by their journey and, for those who wish to do so, to off set the impact
of the greenhouse gases emitted with contributions to portfolios of climate-friendly