Rail Baltica Riga Central Station Update 

I just can't wait for all those rail projects to be completed. I live in Lodz, Poland, 5 minutes walking from a train station that was an end station right in the city centre since it had been built when Poland was partitioned. If all goes well, trains will finally be able to go through it, the whole network will be updated. I'm looking forward to getting on a train and going all the way to Finland through all the Baltic States one day ❤

Thank you for the update. I commute through the central station almost every day, but don't have the time to walk about and check it out.

I presume once the rail baltica 1435mm line is completed, old soviet tracks will be ripped out, i guess this would free extra land for other stuff but also expansion of 1435mm network. Croatia is also building high speed line from Rijeka to Zagreb, initially limited to 160kmph but enabled for high speed 250kmph service. Like Rail Baltica it is also being delayed due to finances. The 270km line which starts in port of Rijeka and will go via Zagreb - Koprivnica to Hungarian border. The line will cost around €4.2 billion, 85% financed by the EU, the line should be completed by 2030, section between Zagreb and Hungarian border some 100km should be completed by end of 2025, section between Zagreb - Karlovac on the southern section of the route work have started but they're not set to be finished before end of 2027, 56km section is relatively easy section, as it is flat part of the line. Section between Karlovac and Rijeka, 120km section will be very difficult, the plan is to build 22km tunnel, that will connect Rijeka to a locality known as Dreznica, there are 3 tunnels on this route, 22km 14km and 9km all very complex and will take long time to finish. Section between Dreznica to Karlovac will go through very hilly terrain and will also require noumber of tunnels, viaducts and bridges,. Karlovac -- Rijeka section will cost initially around €3.6 billion, with completion data given as 2030, but very likely it'll be 2032. Once complete, the line will allow for high speed train service between Rijeka and Zagreb and onward to Hungary, but service will be limited to 160kmph speeds as higher speeds aren't financially justified at this stage, later on the speeds will go up to max 250kmph once market matures and there's a demand for a high speed service. Croatia in 2023 had only 24 million passengers, across entire network, in 1990, that figure was 57 million, so less than half of what it used be. Hope is by 2035, we could reach 1990 figures in terms of passenger traffic.

Good to see that progress is being made, but still a lot of work to go with the line itself. When this project is finished they will revolutionise transport in the Baltics. By the way it's amazing to see that the construction is respected by local people. In my country all those new walls and structures would be already vandalised with graffiti and sh*t.

The concrete structure of the railway overpass should be "masked" by trees along the entire urban length. For the view to be like 3:27 Of course, the distance between the trees and the flyover should be equal to the target height of the trees.

Jamiks?

This is one of the EU's flagship projects. What are those guys in their ivory towers doing ?

And now the money ran out

It was a great recklessness from the European Commission to give money for expensive station reconstructions while not a single kilometer of the main track has been built.