The streets of East Island are broad and beautiful, their sides lined with trees and flowers—East Island may have the most scenic streets of any neighborhood of Lüm. Where the streets cross the canals, small but sturdy bridges provide a way across. (Away from the streets, there are also plenty of pedestrian bridges for those crossing the canals on foot, though unlike the flat bridges in the streets the wooden pedestrian bridges tend to be arched.) Most of East Island's wealthy residents, when they need to get around the neighborhood or travel elsewhere to the city, ride on the streets in comfortable coaches.

The subway does run through East Island, but it sees use mostly by visitors to the neighborhood and by the less affluent inhabitants. In fact, the easternmost subway station in East Island marks the terminus of Lüm's longest subway line, going west all the way to Narthorn before turning north toward Nungunny.

There is also a train station in East Island, but it is used more by those who have reason to travel east along the river rather than for travel within the city. Despite the residents' determination to hide away the train line itself in a tunnel, the station is tall and conspicuous and something of a neighborhood landmark, doubling as a sort of museum of the history of transportation in Lüm and to a lesser degree in the rest of Djarvin.