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In search of a solution to the mobility of the population in connection with the closure of the Altonava traffic overpass, one of the options was the idea of building a temporary railway crossing on Ojara Vacieta Street. After evaluating the actual circumstances for the possibility of crossing on Ojara Vacieta Street, the State Railway Technical Inspectorate (VDZTI) concluded that the level crossing at a particular place, even equipped with alarm devices - barriers and traffic lights - would create critical safety risks for all road users. The railway tracks are not transparent in this place so that the driver can notice the train or the train driver in a timely manner. Visibility is significantly difficult and the safety risks are increased by the relief of the site. The level crossing would be in the valley and the track curve, which could only be seen and reacted by the driver while actually on the level crossing, while the train driver would notice a dangerous situation on the level crossing just a few tens of meters, which, due to the weight and inertia of the train, gives no way to stop it before the crossing. Unlike a car with a braking distance, the train braking distance is measured in hundreds of meters. Temporary railroad crossings could be a possible solution for autoscraft repair during overpass repair (eg during the Brasas Street repair, where the terrain provides visibility for road users and the intensity of the trains is significantly lower), while Ojara Vacieta Street, terrain, visibility and trains due to the intensity of movement. Therefore, in order to prevent an insecure bridge structure being replaced by a more insecure railway crossing, the temporary crossing would create critical safety risks to all road users in that place: both train users and road users and road users. Similarly, the intensity of the trains in the direction of Jurmala should be taken into account when thinking about the solution. Drivers who use the level crossing on Liepajas Street are well aware of the time it takes to spend the traffic crossing at the closed railway crossing. Closed level crossings provoke aggressive drivers desire to cross a closed level crossing, exposing themselves and all the train passengers. Unfortunately, in recent years, there has been a growing trend for reckless driving and non -compliance with road traffic rules, when the traffic light is ignored and the barriers are broken, and there is also a train and road collision, which also has victims, for example, at the turn of the year on Graudu Street in Riga. Taking into account the increasing traffic intensity of road transport in Riga, the only safe solution that is clearly in the public interest is the transmission or two -level railway crossing, not the installation of the level crossing on Ojara Vacieta Street.
