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Only one bridge in Riga currently in poor condition – Traffic Department
BC, Riga, 17.08.2018.Print version
In wake of the bridge collapse in Italy earlier this week, the Riga City Council's Traffic Department told that all of the 126 bridges, tunnels, overpasses etc are in either good or satisfactory condition except one, informs LETA.
The Traffic
Department told that only the Brasa Bridge in Riga is currently in poor or
unsatisfactory condition.
City
Council spokeswoman Una Ahuna-Ozola
said that a tender has already been announced for the renovation of the bridge.
Ahuna-Ozola
said that bridges, tunnels, overpasses are inspected at least once every five
years to assess their conditions, and that currently 99 are in satisfactory
condition, while 25 are in good condition.