Dozens of “city meadows” will seem in Riga

“Metropolis Meadows” is a characteristic of the brand new coalition. “In order that all the things is like in Europe.”

However there town meadows bloom and odor, whereas in Riga they’re coated with cigarette butts and mud.

The concept itself might also be a superb one. However for some motive we’re very unhealthy at implementing overseas expertise. In Riga, town meadow is mowed solely twice a 12 months. Subsequently, by the tip of summer time, waist-deep grass grows there. And in most locations it is extremely obscure the place is an city meadow and the place is simply an uncultivated space.

Deputies expressed issues that such “meadows” might harbor ticks, however officers cheerfully reported that there isn’t a proof that the variety of ticks in city meadows is growing in comparison with unusual lawns.

Nevertheless, it later turned out that there was no “no affirmation”, however merely no inspection of metropolis meadows and lawns for the presence of ticks.

In elements of the “city meadows” there are indicators with the “treatment code”; in a number of locations there are posters of A2 measurement – it is a board measuring 42 by 59 centimeters.

There’s knowledge to point out how a lot forbs have elevated in these meadows as a result of lack of mowing. However, for instance, the {photograph} exhibits a slim tongue of inexperienced zone between the visitors lanes on the 11 November embankment and a car parking zone adjoining to it. So, this isn’t only a dividing strip, it’s now an city meadow.

Throughout the assembly, it turned out that some officers assigned a sure place the standing of a “metropolis meadow,” whereas different officers, with a relaxed coronary heart, issued permission to create a development waste dump on this meadow.

It’s troublesome to say what the residents of Riga miss extra – “metropolis meadows” or awnings and benches at transport stops, and bathrooms. Greens are all the time good should you maintain them.

However in recent times, public areas have become utterly open areas, the place there are not any bushes, no canopies, and no shelter from the solar’s rays or rain. And all the things appears to be “creating collectively,” however Riga ceases to be itself.

If somebody wants an “city meadow,” there are an enormous variety of “untilled wastelands” within the capital and never within the metropolis middle. In metropolis facilities there are normally not meadows, however flower beds. However they want care. There’s a suspicion that in Riga this choice was made with a view to save on the care of inexperienced areas.