WestEast Road Corridor in Latvia E22 Entrance to Riga

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West-East Road Corridor in LatviaE22 Entrance to
Riga

• Gundars Kains
• SJSC LATVIAN STATE ROADS

XXVII International Baltic Road Conference August
24-26, 2009
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Content

• Trans-European Transport Network(TEN-T) and
  Trans-national axis
• TEN-T West- East road corridor in Latvia
• E22 road Entrance to Riga
• Implementation issue
• Development phases
• Final stage
• Future development of TEN-T West-East road
  corridor

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E-road Network in Latvia
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Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) and
Trans-national Axis
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West-East Development Stage
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E 22 Entrance to Riga

• Aim of recearch project
• Technical feasibility of alternative solutions
• Organisation of Environmental Impact Assessment
  (EIA) process.
• Work with stakeholders.
• Faced problems.

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• Project Investigation Area

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Problems and solutions arising during public
hearing concerning Environmental Impact Analysis
in Latvia
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From Project Developer Viewpoint

• Superficial acquaintance of designers and
  presenters with project main solutions and
  targets
• Foreign experts get to know the local situation
  in the working process in cases when local
  specialists are not involved
• Poorly detailed information during public hearing
  process.

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From Residents Viewpoint

• Unwillingness to change daily habits and their
  environment ( Not In My Back Yard)
• Awareness of immunity of their properties.

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From Local Municipality Viewpoint

• Grounded and ungrounded requirements to designers
  which sometimes result in cost increase and
  prevent further feasibility studies
• Inability to make final decision or refusal of
  alternative route options.

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Road E22 East Entrance in Riga Feasibility Stage
of Project Completion

• Project aim
• Project introduction
• Project finale
• Working with the results obtained from project
  feasibility study.

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West-East Development Next Stages

• Kadu karti par koridora talako attistibu.
• Varbut to pau Inaras karti, tikai atzimet
  koknese plavinas un jurmala priedaine posmus.

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Summary

• Joint EU strategic interests coincide with
  Latvia's economic interests.
• The development of international roads improves
  the overall quality of the Latvian road network
  and driving safety.
• Latvia as EU member state during the crisis is
  likely to attract significant funding for
  infrastructure development.
• International road network development gives a
  lot of experience for Latvian road network
  developers.

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• Thank you!
• Questions?