Saint Petersburg

Map

June 13–15, 2008

House of the Beeline logo.

The traffic lights are being replaced (compare to Moscow).

For some reason, just like in Moscow, they’ve started wrapping the bottoms of lampposts (and certain other municipal equipment such as traffic signal boxes) with wire netting here. It’s unclear what purpose this serves: people have no problem posting flyers right above the netting.

Color pictures have appeared on the highway directional signs. This is the cultural capital, after all. It’s hard to think of anything worse for navigation purposes.

Moscow, Tallinn, Murmansk, Kiev. Vesely Poselok 8, Kupchino 12, Rybatskoe 15. Krasnogvardeyskaya Square 1.

Somehow I missed the moment when they changed the style of all the public transport stop signs. Now they look like this:

Pionerskaya stop. Hours of operation: start time, end time, weekdays, weekends, frequency during rush hour.

Courses: Project Budgeting (Wizard, etc.), AutoCAD, Start Your Own Business, Manager (HR, tourism, sales and more), Running a Business, Office Manager.

Everywhere.

But all that’s nothing compared to the space-age pillars that have been installed on the medians downtown.

These are mounts for signs that indicate the direction of traffic flow.

I think there’s some sort of law that limits the number of service signs you can have on the roads. And these signs are actively bought and sold. It’s one thing if it’s a radio station—here’s an unobtrusive ad for Avtoradio (Silver Rain Radio advertises in a similar fashion in Moscow):