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Sobyanin's time to learn from Ushakov
The mayor of Riga has found an effective way to avoid chaos on the roads
A simple and effective way to deal with traffic jams in Riga Mayor Nil Ushakov suggested. In the first serious snowfall, it was decided to transplant the car owners for public transport. Ticket for ... announced the vehicle registration document. That is, if the car owner got on the bus with car registration, showed his inspectors, then skate all you want, but only during a snowfall.
The experiment was a success. On the first day of supervisors estimate has been made about 11 thousand of these trips. If someone went twice, more than 5 thousand car owners took advantage of the unexpected service. However, someone could take someone else's registration certificate, but still the car did not move. I wonder why such a simple idea to not think in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg - a city where traffic is going God knows what, and any snowfall turns into a disaster.





The representative of the public transport companies soured Victor said that on average it daily carries about 400 000 people, and in the day of the experiment the number has increased by 2 8%. A Ushakov thanked conscious motorists and estimated benefit for the capital: "We assume that all travel by car VWGolf, this car takes to the street four meters. Yet at least one meter is needed to comply with safe distance between vehicles in the flow. Thus, 2000 drivers in total released 10 thousand meters of road. This is the length of the convoy from the city center Bolderāja (one of the most remote areas of Riga. - "SP"). And it's quite perceptible improvement in road communication. "
But the snow was over - fare was paid back to all. "It is clear that the snowfall in Riga will. So stay tuned. The day will warn that the next day in the snow again travel to car owners will be free "- said the mayor.
A couple of days of self-government again offered car owners a free ride. Message spread through the media and specially designed sniegs.riga.lv resource and portal self riga.lv. And he Nil Ushakov actively using network Facebook, wrote: "Tomorrow again promised snowfall. So again tomorrow experiment continues: Displays the log - you go on public transport for free. I call to help with snow removal and leave the car at home. "
This is not a new social program and a specific measure to reduce traffic congestion and facilitate the work of snowplows, says the mayor. He has to fend off political opponents - he's the leader of a popular Latvian association "Center of the consent" is constantly under fire from opponents. Immediately it attacked the representative of the Ombudsman Office Ruta Silinya. In her opinion, free public transport in Riga for car owners during a heavy snowfall creates unequal treatment to the poor section of society, which is forced to travel on public transport in all weather conditions. Thus, violated the constitutional principle of legal equality, she says. But this reason does not speak about the main inequality - social ...
Opposition faction "Unity" in the Riga Duma representing nationalists complained to the Bureau of Corruption Prevention and Combating. According to the right, Nil Ushakov violated the law. The head of the faction Olaf Pulks says public transport companies have suffered damage, the dimensions of which allow the mayor to bring to criminal responsibility, because car owners do not pay. But the mayor objected, wrote on Facebook that, for the enterprise, "it was not worth anything, because these people are not their customers. And if they are not given the opportunity to free seats in the same bus, you would do for the money they did not have any. That is to say loss of profit can not be ».
Well, the car owners do not heed the political arguments and the realities of life and the pleasure of enjoying an unexpected proposal. Public transport companies and the Department of Riga City Council have prepared changes to the contract for the provision of services to the drivers during a snowfall could always ride free.
Perhaps the mayor of Riga inspired by his colleagues from Tallinn Mayor Edgar Savisaar. In September, is an experiment - a trip on public transport were free for drivers and sensors on the road showed a reduction of traffic by 7%. But the authorities in Tallinn decided to go ahead and announced with January 1, 2013 all free travel for all citizens of the Estonian capital, but - officially registered in the city. According to the authorities in Tallinn, it will help the poor, encourages registration in the capital, which will lead to an increase in tax payments to the city treasury, get rid of traffic jams ... However, opponents also criticized Savisaar - for the populism of the desire to attract voters.
Well, in Vilnius on this idea of ​​talking during the election campaign to the parliament, but then forgotten ...
Riga - Tallinn - Vilnius

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