Editing Bishkek (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:E8094-Bishkek-East-Bus-Station.jpg|thumb|A typical Bishkek passenger van passes by the East Bus Terminal.]]
[[File:E7912-Bishkek2-interior.jpg|thumb|The electronic board in the main hall of Bishkek-2, the main train station, shows Bishkek and Moscow time.]]
[[File:Bishkek Railway Station.jpg|thumb|[[Bishkek-2 railway station]]]]

=== Mass public transport ===
Public transportation includes buses, electric [[trolleybus]]es, and public vans (alternatively known as minibuses<ref>https://trvlland.com/blog-kyrgyzstan/transport-in-kyrgyzstan/</ref> or known in Russian as ''[[marshrutka]]''). The first bus and trolley bus services in Bishkek were introduced in 1934 and 1951, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frunze. City Encyclopedia. |url=http://yiv1999.narod.ru/ABC_0040.htm#6300 |access-date=26 January 2014}}</ref>

Taxi cabs can be found throughout the city.

The city is considering designing and building a light rail system.

===Commuter and long-distance buses===
There are two main bus stations in Bishkek. The smaller old Eastern Bus Station is primarily the terminal for minibusses to various destinations within or just beyond the eastern suburbs, such as [[Kant, Kyrgyzstan|Kant]], [[Tokmok]], [[Kemin]], [[Issyk Ata]], or the [[Korday]] border crossing.

Long-distance regular bus and minibus services to all parts of the country, as well as to [[Almaty]] (the largest city in neighbouring [[Kazakhstan]]) and [[Kashgar]], China, run mostly from the newer grand Western Bus Station; only a smaller number run from the Eastern Station.

The Dordoy Bazaar on the north-eastern outskirts of the city also contains makeshift terminals for frequent minibusses to suburban towns in all directions (from [[Sokuluk]] in the west to [[Tokmok|Tokmak]] in the east) and to some buses taking traders to Kazakhstan and Siberia.

===Rail===
{{As of|2007}}, the [[Bishkek-2 railway station]] sees only a few trains a day. It offers a popular three-day train service from Bishkek to Moscow.

There are also long-distance trains that leave for Siberia ([[Novosibirsk]] and [[Novokuznetsk]]), via [[Almaty]], over the [[TurkSib]] route, and to [[Yekaterinburg]] (Sverdlovsk) in the Urals, via [[Astana]]. These services are remarkably slow (over 48 hours to Yekaterinburg), due to long stops at the border and the indirect route (the trains first have to go west for more than a {{convert|100|km}} before they enter the main TurkSib line and can continue to the east or north). For example, as of the fall of 2008, train No. 305 Bishkek-Yekaterinburg was scheduled to take 11 hours to reach the [[Shu, Jambyl|Shu]] junction—a distance of some {{convert|269|km}} by rail, and less than half of that by road.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Маршрут поезда ????? – ????? на сайте |url=http://www.poezda.net/ru/train_timetable?st_code=2708000&order=&forDate=3 |access-date=21 November 2012 |publisher=Poezda.net}}</ref>

===Air===
The city is served by [[Manas International Airport]] ([[International Air Transport Association|IATA]] code FRU), located approximately {{convert|25|km}} north-west of the city centre.

In 2001, the United States obtained the right to use Manas International Airport as an [[Transit Center at Manas|air base]] for its military operations in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dzyubenko |first=Olga |date=June 3, 2014 |title=U.S. vacates base in Central Asia as Russia's clout rises |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0EE1LG/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240210094832/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0EE1LG/ |archive-date=February 10, 2024 |access-date=February 10, 2024 |website=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> Russia subsequently (2003) established an airbase of its own ([[Kant (air base)|Kant Air Base]]) near [[Kant, Kyrgyzstan|Kant]], some {{convert|20|km}} east of Bishkek. It is based at a facility that used to be home to a major Soviet military pilot training school; one of its students, [[Hosni Mubarak]], later became president of [[Egypt]].