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64.1% of Latvian main highways are in good and excellent condition – LVC state road manager

BC, Riga, 19.02.2019.Print version
After the road repairs in 2018, 64.1 percent of Latvia’s main highways are in good and excellent condition, 10.3 percent are in a satisfactory condition, and 25.6 percent are in a poor technical conditions, Latvijas Valsts Celi (LVC) state road manager, reported LETA.

In respect to regional roads, 34.6% of asphalt roads are in good and excellent condition, 22.6%  are in satisfactory condition and 42.8% are in poor condition. Also, 6.6% of gravel roads are in good condition, 47.8%t are in satisfactory condition and 45.6% are in poor condition.


In order to conduct the necessary maintenance works, every year EUR 636 mln are necessary. For more than 25 year the maintenance is conducted in a situation where financing is insufficient, therefore there is a deficit of works that have not been done in due time worth EUR 4 bn.


In the 2014-2020 EU planning period, co-financing from the Cohesion Fund for state roads was EUR 256.9 mln, while co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund was EUR 277 mln.






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