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The Lithuanian Highway Administration, which has been committed to installing a car tunnel and a pedestrian bridge for four years, says that in order to solve the population’s problems, the Vilnius municipality will have to install an adjacent road near the highway, but he says that the municipality has problems with the acquisition of land.
On Wednesday evening, the Tarandė community is preparing to mount a column on the Ukmergė highway from the end of the western ring road to the left turn on the main Vilnius-Panevėžys road, which has been experiencing huge traffic jams. since early 2017.
About five thousand. Renata Gelažauskienė, president of the Unifying Community, told BNS that after the completion of the Vilnius Western Bypass in December 2016, the problem of entering Tarandė and the movement of pedestrian traffic had not been resolved, and several people had already killed in traffic accidents during that turn.
At the end of the western detour, there was Tarandė, since 2017 we have been sacrificing time in traffic jams every day, Tarandė is negatively skewed: the entrance is bad here, people die here every year, that is a fact.
“After the end of the afternoon detour, Tarandė stayed, since 2017 we have been sacrificing time in traffic jams every day, Tarand be is negatively bent: the entrance here is bad, people die here every year, that it is a fact. For three years, we applied to various instances with a request to take urgent measures to resolve the problem, two weeks ago we again sent a letter with 603 signatures to the Lithuanian Highway Administration (LAKD), the city of Vilnius and the district municipalities ”Said a community representative.
The two municipalities and LAKD signed a tripartite agreement in 2019, according to which it is planned to install a right turn with a tunnel under the road and the adjacent street next to the road by 2024; processes are planned to take time to take adjacent parcels for public needs.
However, the community is asking for the issues to be resolved more quickly and is outraged that they are not receiving any knowledge, just rumors that there are also plans to build a pedestrian bridge here.
Therefore, the event “We are driving in a safe Tarande” is basically for all Vilna safe, taking into account spent fuel, traffic jams, accidents. We want to demand in the event, to be good, to face it urgently, because you left us to chance for four years ”, he said.
Municipality: the project will take time, temporary solutions are requested
Vilnius Deputy Mayor Vytautas Mitalas told BNS that LAKD agreed to do its job faster and this gives us hope that the tunnel will be installed “before the planned 2024 year”. He says the process would speed up if LAKD abandoned the idea of installing a duplicate highway on the Tarande side, because that’s where land acquisition problems stagnate.
“That double, the street adjacent to the main road, which extends for about a kilometer, passes through private plots, the municipality must take them for public needs after approving a detailed plan. The plots are not only private, but, we know that some of them are also mortgaged, these procedures can take a year, a year and a half or even up to two years. We are doing everything that depends on the side of the municipality, but I think that the management can make a mess in addition to that, ”said the deputy mayor.
He also says that he has asked the LAKD and the police here until a tunnel is built and temporary security measures are put in place to limit the speed of cars on the Ukmergė side, such as a speedometer.
LAKD: The municipality has to build a road
At that time, LAKD reported that according to the agreement, the management plans to install not only an exit from the tunnel, but also a pedestrian overpass, and the municipality would be responsible for the adjacent road.
“We note that on September 2, 2020, a meeting was held at the Highway Administration, during which the Highway Administration and the Vilnius City Municipality agreed to seek ways to accelerate the implementation of the projects so that they are implemented earlier than stipulated in the cooperation agreement. Taking into account the situation, the Lithuanian Highway Administration will initiate a tender for the tunnel passage at the end of this year ”, BNS informed the management.
However, according to LAKD, all parts of this agreement must be implemented simultaneously, so it is not ruled out that this will take place until the end of 2024 as planned.
Once again, we note that the full and successful implementation of this project requires complex cooperation from all partners. This means that without the implementation of a certain part of the project, the final implementation of the entire project is not possible. In this case, if the municipality did not install connecting roads, the Road Administration could not guarantee the operation of the design of the tunnel crossing and road safety, ”says the Directorate.
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