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In the second half of April, due to the ongoing construction of the trestle, it is planned to close a part of the Vilnius road. Porters, transporters and police representatives discussed what to do if traffic jams were not controlled on the city streets.
Tractors line the streets
Jonas Nazarov, the head of DFDS Seaways, who presented the situation to the Traffic Safety Commission, said that the biggest traffic jams on the streets occur in the afternoons, when loaded trucks begin to rush towards the ferries.
“The busiest traffic is from 4 pm to 6 pm. The most difficult days are Monday, Tuesday and a little bit, Wednesday and Sunday. For example, on Sunday night (March 28 – AA), 82 trucks crossed the Central Klaipeda terminal gates. The peak day was Tuesday of the 10th week of this year, when 490 trucks entered in one day “, named J. Nazarov to the flows.
The terminal has capacity for a maximum of 530 trucks per day, so data from the last few weeks suggests that its cargo will soon reach its maximum.
Nazarov noted that the biggest problem is that generally half of the trucks that fill the ferry arrive at the terminal within a few hours.
Like in Soviet times.
“The terminal gate can be crossed by 150 trucks per hour. We are partially saved by the traffic light at the intersection of Calle Minijos and Avenida Baltijos. While the green light is on, four trucks cross the intersection. The green signal is it turns on for 30 seconds and then there is a two-minute pause, “Nazarov said.
It turns out that the Klaipėda Central Terminal could still accept more trucks than actually arrive at the terminal gates, the traffic light work slows down traffic and only 96 people enter the terminal, where 123 trucks could pass in an hour.
“The rest will line up on Avenida Baltijos, up to the Avenida Paz roundabout. They will all stop for a 550-meter stretch. Approximately one lane will have capacity for 28 trucks. Hypothetically, all trucks should fit, but if conditions are unfavorable, trucks can block the Taikos Avenue roundabout and block north-south traffic, ”noted J. Nazarov.
This type of situation has already been repeated, so the police officers had to regulate the traffic in the aforementioned roundabouts.
Want green light
Gintaras Neniškis, director of the Klaipėda municipal administration, pointed out that the situation on these city arteries could soon turn tragic, as traffic in one direction of the Vilnius highway will be closed in April.
“The bandwidth will drop even more at times. Look for solutions, because the city’s infrastructure is what it is, “added G. Neniškis.
The administration director asked the porters if there was a possibility of temporarily stopping the tugs somewhere.
J. Nazarov is convinced that this would not solve the problem, because the most important question is how the tugboats can reach the port border with the least damage to city traffic. The head of the company proposed to extend the time the green light signal turns on and thus accelerate the movement of trucks through the streets of the city.
Mindaugas Vasiliauskas, representative of the Street Lighting company, stated that this traffic light crossing was adjusted so that the green color would illuminate after 120 seconds.
Patience runs out
Representatives of the public institution Klaipėda Passenger Transport also had questions about truck queues. The residents of the city, who have found gaps between the trucks, still overcome the traffic jams with cars, and here the buses remain on the streets for a long time.
Klaipėda Deputy Mayor Arūnas Barbšys noted that there are also situations where trucks get stuck at roundabouts and traffic stops.
Mindaugas Džermeika / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis
G.Neniškis saw that discussions about traffic congestion are still not beneficial.
“Without the organizational decisions of the dock workers, we will not change anything here. We have already talked a lot and we have nothing to offer, ”replied G. Neniškis.
Mindaugas Džermeika, Chief of the Road Police Service of the Klaipėda County Police Chief Commissariat, also noted that police patrols often have to regulate traffic flows at two roundabouts.
“Like in Soviet times,” Dzermeika said.
In short, G. Neniškis emphasized that solutions to the problem still need to be found, because the situation in the central streets of the city is becoming unbearable.
Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis
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