Riga City Council has started work on two projects related to Rail Baltica. One of them involves the construction of multimodal transport hub in Tornakalns and the other one is the reconstruction of the Riga Central Market, said Dzintars Balodis, the head of the Riga City Council’s department of urban development told members of the urban development committee. Plans for other adjacent territories will be soon drawn up when there is clarity about the adjacent territories affected by the Rail Baltica project and the solutions proposed for their development.
The multimodal transport hub will be built in an undeveloped Tornakalns territory between Vienibas Gatve Street and the railway. The financing for this project comes from EU Cohesion Fund (EUR 7 million) and from the local authority (EUR 290,000) for the elaboration of the technical plan. The project envisages the construction of a new regional coach terminal, a parking area and a passenger terminal.
Riga Central Market’s revitalization is another project the Riga local authority plans to implement as part of Rail Baltica. EUR 290,000 was allotted by the City Council, also for the development of the technical plan of the project.
In order to better prepare for the Rail Baltica project, the City Council’s urban development department has started talks with the Transport Ministry on signing a memorandum, which among other things envisages forming an inter-institutional workgroup for Rail Baltica.
The reconstruction of Riga Central Railway Station will be implemented according to the design that will be elaborated by the Danish designers Cowi and PLH that have won the international architectural tender for the development of the railway station and the surrounding area in Riga. Preparatory works should be carried out in 2018 and construction is expected to start in 2019 or 2020. The reconstruction of the station is part of Rail Baltica project
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