Transport in Stockholm

[1][2][3] Public transport is managed primarily by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), which is owned by Region Stockholm.

In addition to SL, several other public and private operators provide regional and inter-city rail connections, long-distance buses, and Waxholmsbolaget archipelago boat services.

The blue buses are in the inner city variant trunk lines traversing large parts of the Stockholm inner city, and in the suburban variant acting as important feeder lines between the suburbs and public transport hubs in central Stockholm, or providing crossway connections between suburbs.

The Stockholm metro has been called 'the world's longest art gallery',[8] with most of the network's 100 stations decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations, engravings and reliefs.

Stockholm’s road network is shaped by its geographic location, spread across islands between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea.

Historically, waterways posed significant obstacles for land transport, with only a few key routes existing in the Middle Ages.

[18] Today, Stockholm’s main traffic arteries include Essingeleden, Södertäljevägen, and other radial routes connecting the city out to surrounding areas.

A C-shaped motorway ring road exists around the south, west and north of the City Centre.

All the entrances and exits of this area have unmanned control points operating with automatic number plate recognition.

All vehicles entering or exiting the congestion tax affected area, with a few exceptions, have to pay 10–20 SEK (1.09–2.18 EUR, 1.49–2.98 USD) depending on the time of day between 06:30 and 18:29.

The then-reigning government (Persson Cabinet) stated that they would only take into consideration the results of the referendum in Stockholm Municipality.

40 that passes through the airport on its shuttling between Uppsala and Stockholm City Station, but a special surcharge is applied.

This is because Arlanda Express has been built as a public–private partnership project, with the winner having a monopoly on rail transport to the airport.