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Rail Baltica Most significant disagreements with Latvian municipalities solved

BC, Riga, 28.10.2015.Print version
The most significant disagreements with municipalities in implementing the Rail Baltica project have been solved, as Neils Balgalis, a representative of RB Latvija, told the LNT television, writes LETA.

He said that detailed solutions had been found for more than 500 river, gas pipe, rail line, and highway crossings. Local residents' proposals were taken into account during public debates, and changes were implemented in the project.

 

Durrig the first round of the project, a 27-kilometer Riga section of the railroad will be built, which will be the most complicated part of the project.

 

Balgalis said that the planning and designing the Riga section of the railroad will begin at the end of the next year, but construction will take place from 2020 to 2023.

 

As reported, the Rail Baltica project deals with construction of a new 1,435 millimeter standard-gauge railroad in the Baltic countries. The European Commission has allotted Latvia EUR 238 million for the first round of the project.






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