Next year, in Bruņinieku Street, there will be a bike path, the Riga City Council will promise

Emil Jakrins, acting director of the Riga City Council (RD), said Wednesday, July 4, next to the sidewalk restoration, on Bruņinieku Street.

At the time of the search there is also Centrs-Plavnieki cycling center. After the reconstruction of Augusta Deglava bridge on one side, there will be a bicycle and pedestrian path.

At the meeting on July 4, Jakrin reported on the construction of bicycle infrastructure in the capital, recognizing that part of the project had been delayed.

"Most of the work has been done: in the construction, the preparation of a project and the purchase of land are the most tedious tasks, but the construction takes place As short as possible, the development concept of the Riga cycling development of 2016-2018 indicates that in total there are six objects: Centrs-Ziepniekkalns, Imanta-Daugavgrīva, Centrs-Dārziņi cycling centers as well as connecting the Salu Bridge, Mezaparka Connection and speed connection of Dzirnavu Street with S Kolas street veloceļa

The plan provides that construction work at all stages should start no later than 2018. The costs of project rise to 6.4 million euros

The traffic department of Celiņš Centrs-Ziepniekkalns hopes to obtain a permit from the Construction Council of the city of Riga this week to allow the worker of the start building Soon, Dzirnavu Street Branch Department of Bicycles is currently coordinating. Along the coastal road, the department develops the section of road with the restoration of the roadway.

Jakrin discovers that the traffic department has long been at the service of designing vacancies. However, they can not be filled because the compensation offered by the municipality is not competitive with the private sector. Planning bike paths is a direct task for a departmental employee, but other employees are involved in the decision on the municipal cycling infrastructure.

The City of People Association, RD, introduced the initiative of more than 2500 residents to build Brivibas Street. . The opposition on June 19 to the regular meeting of the Rada attempted to include a draft decision that would instruct the Traffic Department to evaluate the citizen's initiative. "This idea has been relevant for a number of years, we are thinking about it and discussing it, listening to the opinions of other institutions, and we have come to the conclusion that without the reconstruction of the street, we can not create safety cycles. Beat Dambite, Acting Head of the Department of Traffic Control Design Documentation, added that changing the profile of Brivibas Street would be economically unjustified because it would mean the transfer of all communications. "The ownership of legal entities should be affected, it should be done on our means, which would cost tens of millions," said the director of the Department of Traffic. However, the majority of Riga residents still do not use the bicycle as the main means of transport, which has a negative influence on the environment and road traffic.

The Velodati project reveals a catastrophic shortage of daily cycles in Riga. In turn, the new RD bike paths are built where it is more convenient than necessary.

Since the launch of the Velodati project in the summer of 2016, the RD has updated the construction of new bike paths. For example, all the goods needed to build the road to Imanta-Daugavgrīva were confiscated from private owners. The traffic department expects construction to start in September. The R & D will also allocate 122 thousand euros to participate in the project of international policy of the handshake by bike.