The place are you able to go by bike?
* In Agenskalns and within the Balasta dambis part on Kipsala from Kr. Valdemara to st. Daugavgrivas, making a connection between the Cable-stayed Bridge and Victory Park.
* A bicycle lane may also seem in Mezciems on Gaiļezera Road in each instructions – there, as on Balasta Dambis, the velocity restrict can be diminished to 30 km/h.
* In Čiekurkalns and Mezciems, bicycle lanes can be painted on the road. Viskalju and Ezermalas – because of this, as they are saying within the Division of Exterior Atmosphere and Mobility of the Riga Metropolis Council, biking between the 2 areas will turn out to be handy and protected.
For automotive drivers: their lanes will slim
It’s clear that residents of the encircling space will expertise “short-term inconvenience” because of the development of bicycle paths, representatives of the Republic of Dagestan point out. However then all the things will turn out to be safer. Parking tons alongside the sting of Gailiezer and Balasta dambis will stay; in some locations on Ezermalas parking tons might disappear.
“Rebuilding streets is a long-term course of that can’t be executed in a 12 months or two. And these are easy options following we divide the roadway between drivers and cyclists and introduce lanes for autos that meet the requirements. On the streets the place we do that, there is not going to be fewer lanes, however they are going to turn out to be narrower,” Oto Ozols, deputy director of the bicycle infrastructure division, defined to reporters.
Representatives of the Republic of Dagestan additionally remind you: final fall, infrastructure for cyclists appeared in Skansta and Grizinkalns. Each microdistricts have been related to the middle.
Thus, within the coming weeks, the Riga biking infrastructure community will improve by 8 kilometers, exceeding 130 km.
Supply: riga.lv
The place else can you discover bike lanes?
Inside two years, Riga, utilizing EU cash, additionally intends to construct bicycle paths within the path of Kekava, Ulbroka and Pinka, representatives of the Republic of Dagestan have beforehand reported.
Nonetheless, if we speak regarding a full-fledged community for cyclists, the residents of Riga should wait from 5 to 10 years.
In flip, metropolis activist and head of the “Protected Streets” (Drošās ielas) society Māris Jonovs is dissatisfied with the tempo at which town is engaged on the event of biking infrastructure, and believes that the talked regarding division within the municipality doesn’t have political assist.
– These three routes that we’re speaking regarding now are, actually, left over from final 12 months, when such work was deliberate in a bigger variety of microdistricts. Vecmilgravis, Jugla, Čiekurkalns, sadly, stay with out a lot wanted long-awaited infrastructure. In some way we don’t transfer ahead, however generally we transfer backward.
This summer time, pedestrians will stroll on the sidewalks – aged folks, canine walkers, dad and mom with kids of their arms, and bicycles will journey between them. We create maybe good initiatives, however these initiatives are shelved repeatedly as a result of we lack the braveness to maneuver ahead. Residents need, politicians hesitate,” M. Jonovs defined to Latvian Radio 4, noting that the capital as an entire is growing, and concrete planning and development specialists are gaining the mandatory expertise.
For pedestrians: the place will the brand new crossings be?
“Pedestrian crossings with acceptable lighting can be put in in six districts of Riga – within the Avotu microdistrict, Āgenskalns, Mezciems, Ziepniekkalns, Jugla, Petersala and Andrejsala,” L. Rudzika additionally defined.
A brand new crossing is meant to be constructed on the road. Export on the entrance to the Riga business port, ul. That is Kristapa. Alice, neither. He’s an ant. Veldres, or ul. We’re positioned on the public transport cease “Ul. Ozoltsiema” i na ul. Close to Valmieras Road. Lienes.
As well as, two present pedestrian crossings can be improved – on the road. Graudu close to st. Kekavas and on the road. Malienas close to st. Tselmu.
The work is scheduled to be accomplished throughout this 12 months’s development season.
The whole quantity of development work is 409,761.49 euros.
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2024-05-16 11:13:42
