Transport
On Wednesday, July 24, Latvian airline airBaltic welcomed its 48th Airbus A220-300 aircraft with registration number YL-ABV in Rīga.
On Tuesday, July 23, the government decided to pay €9.6 million of the Rail Baltica project's current construction invoices, Latvian Radio reported.
The tender for the reconstruction of the Vanšu Bridge in Rīga has been terminated without result, as only one tenderer applied with an "inadequately expensive" tender of almost EUR 100 million, Riga City Council said in a statement on July 23.
Last year, the Rīga City Council said it had allocated EUR 35 million for street repairs. Last week, however, the municipal officials said that the sum was EUR 30 million. Where did the 5 million go? Latvian Radio attempted to find out.
The Bieriņi neighborhood of Riga reported on Facebook Sunday that a bridge used by pedestrians and cyclists to get from Mārupe to Riga has collapsed.
Online shopping via cheap shops such as AliExpress and Temu has become very popular in the EU, including Latvia. The price of these goods will likely rise slightly in the coming years as they will be subject to additional import duties. The fact that there is none at the moment puts local traders at a disadvantage, Latvian Television reported July 21.
This weekend, Tet Rally Latvia - FIA World Rally Championship will continue in Kurzeme, where several national road stages will be closed. Therefore, drivers traveling to Kurzeme should expect heavy traffic and longer travel times, said Latvian State Roads (LVC).
A plane of the Latvian national airline airBaltic on its way from Riga to Pristina in Kosovo briefly entered the airspace of Belarus on the night of Wednesday, July 17, Augusts Zilberts, a representative of airBaltic, confirmed to LETA.
The Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Environment asks drivers to pay attention to road safety during the harvest season, LETA reports.
airBaltic is operating a few special flights between Rīga and Liepāja, Latvia's only domestic route, for the first time in almost four years, Latvian Radio reported July 18.
Several tragic accidents took place on the Liepāja Highway within a span of a few days this summer. As a result, Latvian State Roads ordered an emergency safety audit of the road. The Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) has carried it out and found that shrubbery sometimes impairs visibility, Latvian Radio reported on July 18.
An additional €1.2 billion of EU funding will be allocated for the implementation and construction of the Rail Baltica project, of which €346 million will be allocated specifically for Latvia, the project implementers RB Rail said July 17.
On Wednesday, July 17, the most ambitious pavement resurfacing works of this summer started on Kārļa Ulmaņa Avenue in Rīga.
No cross-border bus services are planned between southern Estonia and northern Latvia this summer and a pilot project has been postponed until 2025, reports ERR News in Estonia.
Riga Airport said July 17 it is offering a new 'Meet & Greet' service to allow passengers, accompanied by airport staff, to quickly get to their required airport location, use the Fast Track security check line, and receive assistance at border control and baggage handling.
On Tuesday, July 16, the government dismissed Ilonda Stepanova, the former State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport who was previously demoted in connection with the supervision of the implementation of the Rail Baltica project, Edgars Klētnieks, Advisor to the Minister of Transport, told LSM.lv.
On Tuesday, July 16, a ban on crossing the Latvian-Belarusian and Latvian-Russian borders with cars registered in Belarus entered into force. On the first day at the border checkpoint "Pāternieki" in Krāslava municipality, four vehicles were prevented from entering Latvia, Latgale Television reports.
On Tuesday, July 16, the government endorsed a €5 million increase in the funding available to support the purchase of electric cars, including an increase in the amount of support. This will bring the funding available to €15 million.
On Monday, July 15, a driver caused an accident in Āgenskalns by crashing into two cars parked on the side of the street, leaving his car at the scene and fleeing, Latvian Television reported Tuesday.
From Tuesday, July 16, vehicles registered in the Republic of Belarus will be banned from entering Latvia, the State Revenue Service (VID) said. The ban is included in the 8th European Union (EU) sanctions package against Belarus.
In the first half of the year, 8,989,953 passengers used train transport in Latvia, which is 9.3% or 767,317 more than in the first half of 2023, according to JSC "Pasažieru vilciens" or "Vivi" data published on July16.
Tram rides along part of routes 1, 7 and 11 in the Latvian capital will get a bit speedier from July 15, according to information from Rīga City Council.
The notorious 'taxi wars' of previous decades at Rīga Airport are no longer what they used to be, and recent months have seen several new initiatives to introduce transparent pricing for taxis and shuttle buses to the city center, as previously reported by LSM.
Riga Airport has signed a EUR 248,000 contract with BM-projekts for the development of a multi-storey car park construction project, the airport said July 11.
Thursday, July 11 saw the first meeting of a special parliamentary commission of inquiry into the painful progress of the massive 'Rail Baltica' infrastructure project.
On the Daugavpils Highway (A6) near Jēkabpils, vandals have tried to destroy the average speed control device, the state company Latvian State Roads (LVC) said July 11.
The Tartu-Riga train service will start testing in a month, with the first passenger journeys scheduled for October, Estonian public media ERR reports on July 11.
The shadow economy in the car service sector amounts to almost EUR 200 million a year, representatives of the Auto Association told LETA on July 10, citing a study conducted by the association.
Over the next five years, Riga Municipality is planning a major transformation of Vaļņu Street in the Old Town, giving priority to pedestrians, Latvian Television reported on July 9.
Rīga Airport (RIX) served 3.2 million passengers in the first half of 2024, exceeding the previous year's figure by 4 percent, according to a relase from the airport July 9.
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