Editing Crimea (section)

===Transport===
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;Crimean Bridge
[[File:Крымский мост 21 декабря 2019 года.jpg|thumb|[[Crimean Bridge]]]]
[[File:Crimea South Coast 04-14 img01 Simferopol-Yalta trolley.jpg|thumb|upright|Trolleybus near Alushta]]
[[File:Yalta Kanatka.JPG|thumb|Cableway in Yalta]]
{{main|Crimean Bridge}}
In May 2015, work began on a multibillion-dollar road-rail link (a pair of parallel bridges) across the Kerch Strait.<ref>{{cite news|title=Putin orders military exercise as protesters clash in Crimea|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-bridge-idUSKCN0XF1YS|date=18 April 2016|access-date=24 April 2016|work=Reuters}}</ref> The road bridge opened in May 2018, and the rail bridge in December 2019. With a length of 19&nbsp;km, it is the longest bridge in Europe, surpassing [[Vasco da Gama Bridge]] in [[Lisbon]]. The Crimean Bridge was damaged by [[2022 Crimean Bridge explosion|an attack]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-08 |title=Massive explosion reported on Crimea's Kerch bridge |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html |access-date=2023-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008055108/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html |archive-date=8 October 2022 }}</ref> on October 8, 2022, and [[July 2023 Crimean Bridge explosion|another]] on July 17, 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=2023-07-17 |title=Traffic stopped on Crimean Bridge, reports of blasts |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/traffic-stopped-crimean-bridge-due-emergency-russian-backed-governor-2023-07-17/ |access-date=2023-07-17}}</ref>

;Public transportation
Almost every settlement in Crimea is connected with another settlement by bus lines. Crimea contains the longest (96&nbsp;km or 59&nbsp;mi) [[Crimean Trolleybus|trolleybus route]] in the world, founded in 1959, stretching from Simferopol to Yalta.<ref name="Crimea">{{cite web |url=http://www.blacksea-crimea.com/Places/trolleybuses.html |title=The longest trolleybus line in the world! |access-date=15 January 2007 |work=blacksea-crimea.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103162437/http://www.blacksea-crimea.com/Places/trolleybuses.html |archive-date=3 January 2014 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> The trolleybus line starts near [[Simferopol]]'s Railway Station (in Soviet times it started near [[Simferopol International Airport]]) through the mountains to [[Alushta]] and on to Yalta. The length of line is about 90&nbsp;km and passengers are assigned a seat. Simferopol, Yalta and Alushta also have an urban and suburban trolleybus network. Trolleybuses also operate in [[Sevastopol]] and [[Kerch]].

A tram system operates in the city of Yevpatoria. In the nearby [[urban-type settlement|townlet]] village of Molochnoye, a 1.6&nbsp;km-long tram line provides the only connection between the sea shore and a holiday resort, but its operation is halted since 2015.

;Railway traffic
There are two railroad lines running through Crimea: the non-electrified [[Armyansk|Armiansk]]–Kerch (with a link to Feodosia), and the electrified [[Melitopol]]–Simferopol–Sevastopol (with a link to Yevpatoria), connecting Crimea to the Ukrainian mainland.

Until 2014 the network was part of the Cisdneper Directorate of the [[Ukrainian Railways]]. Long-distance trains provided connection to all major Ukrainian cities, to many towns of Russia, [[Belarus]] and, until the end of the 2000s, even to [[Vilnius]], [[Riga]], [[Warsaw]] and [[Berlin]].

Since 2014 the railways are operated by the [[Crimea Railway]]. Local trains belong to the ''Yuzhnaya Prigorodnaya Passazhirskaya Kompaniya'' (Southern Suburban Passenger Company), serving the entire network of the peninsula and via the Crimean Bridge three trains daily to [[Anapa]]. Long-distance trains under the name ''Tavriya'' – operated by the company ''Grand Servis Ekspress'' – connect Sevastopol and Simferopol daily with Moscow and Saint Petersburg; in the summer season Yevpatoria and Feodosia are also directly connected by them. Several times a week Simferopol is also linked with [[Volgograd]], [[Sochi]], [[Yekaterinburg]], [[Omsk]] and even [[Murmansk]] by train.

Further development plans consist of a bypass line between Simferopol and Kerch, and a complete electrification of the network with changing the voltage of the already electrified lines from 3 kV DC to 25 kV 50&nbsp;Hz AC.

;Aviation
*[[Simferopol International Airport]] is an air transport hub of Crimea.

;Highways
* А-291 – Tavrida highway (route Yevpatoria-) Sevastopol – Simferopol (SW to W N to East ring) – Bilohirsk<br /> – north Feodosia – Kerch south (strait bridge)
* [[European route E105|E105]]/M18 – [[Syvash]] (bridge, starts), [[Dzhankoi]], [[North Crimean Canal]] (bridge), [[Simferopol]], [[Alushta]], [[Yalta]] (ends)
* [[European route E97|E97]]/M17 – [[Perekop]] (starts), [[Armiansk]], [[Dzhankoi]], [[Feodosia]], [[Kerch]] ([[Kerch Strait ferry line|ferry]], ends)
* [[A290 highway (Russia)|A290]] – [[Novorossiysk]] to [[Kerch]] via the Crimean Bridge (formerly known as Highway M25)
* H05 – [[Krasnoperekopsk]], [[Simferopol]] (access to the Simferopol International Airport)
* H06 – [[Simferopol]], [[Bakhchysarai]], [[Sevastopol]]
* H19 – [[Yalta]], [[Sevastopol]]
* P16
* P23 – [[Simferopol]], [[Feodosiya|Feodosia]]
* P25 – [[Simferopol]], [[Yevpatoria]]
* P27 – [[Sevastopol]], [[Inkerman]] (completely within the city of Sevastopol)
* P29 – [[Alushta]], [[Sudak]], [[Feodosiya|Feodosia]]
* P34 – [[Alushta]], [[Yalta]]
* P35 – Hrushivka, [[Sudak]]
* P58 – [[Sevastopol]], Port "Komysheva Bukhta" (completely within the city of Sevastopol)
* P59 (completely within the city of Sevastopol)

;Sea transport
{{See also|#Strategic value}}
The cities of Yalta, [[Feodosiya|Feodosia]], [[Kerch]], Sevastopol, Chornomorske and [[Yevpatoria]] are connected to one another by sea routes.