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‘Zebra’: Čaka Street on Friday night – fewer bicycles than Barona Street

Newly elected Riga City Council The introduced experimental bicycle lane on Aleksandara Čaka and Marijas streets has caused a wide resonance in society. Director of the TV show “Zebra” Paul Timrots On Friday, November 13, for 30 minutes at the intersection of Stabu and Čaka streets, the number of vehicles crossing the intersection at the green light interval of one traffic light was counted.

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Zebra started broadcasting the Internet live on its Facebook profile at 4 pm, and the vehicle was registered from 3.30 pm to 4.00 pm. According to Paul Timrot’s calculations, at one green light interval, eight to 10 cars, one or two public transport units, as well as one or two bicycles leave the center in the direction of Čaka Street.

As you can see, there was a traffic jam on Čaka Street, which was also observed in the previous days, when Čaka Street was narrowed from two lanes in each direction to one and supplemented with a temporary bicycle lane.

“You can calculate for yourself what transport is a priority here, which transport has more square meters on the street and which transport people mostly use. So far, as I saw, there are no traffic jams on the nearby streets – there were not many cars on Krišjāņa Barona Street, , but there were more bicycles there than now on Chaka Street, “Timrots shares his observations.

“Currently, the proportion of those who have got a new lane to motorists is one to 10. Whether a tenth of society deserves half the way, we don’t know yet – it can be discussed and argued. We have to look at how it will all develop, because now we are watching the experiment in a situation where no one goes to school, no one now goes to concerts or theater in the evening, and many work remotely.And even in such conditions Čaka Street is full! What will happen in “normal life” conditions? We can only imagine … ” Timrots.

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