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Swiss Lack Liepāja Engineering Skills — Their Cable Car Can't Handle Wind
While in Switzerland cables snap from wind, in Liepāja our transport systems are used to sea storms and keep operating.
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Baltic States Unite in Train Purchase — Estonia First to Experiment with 60 Million Euro Toys
The Baltic states have decided to jointly buy trains for the Rail Baltica project, but Estonia will be the one to first find out whether they actually run.
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Riga taxi drivers prepare for 24-hour strike against Bolt — plan to not sit in cars and not drive
500 licensed taxi drivers plan not to connect to the Bolt app for 24 hours in mid-April, demonstrating their dissatisfaction with having to drive for money.
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Belarus Unveils New Business Model: How to Profit from Other People's Trucks
Minsk has figured out that Lithuanian cargo trucks are like hotel rooms - you have to pay 120 euros per day for parking, otherwise they'll confiscate them.
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SAS CEO Reveals the Truth: Planes Cannot Fly on Rock Music Alone
While Riga Airport is still figuring out how to tell passengers about cancelled flights, Liepāja has long known - the real fuel is rock.
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Durbe's electric buses turn out so green that even students are turning blue
South Kurzeme's new electric buses prove that the future is cold and expensive - especially if you want to warm up.
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Fuel Prices Skyrocket: Bus Drivers Start Learning to Run
While Riga ponders how to solve the fuel crisis, Liepāja buses are already planning to switch to legs.
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Bolt and Nvidia will teach robots to drive in Liepāja - first exam in Karosta's potholes
While Riga is still trying to understand what autonomous transport is, Liepāja is already preparing for robots that can survive local roads.
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Liepāja offers free transport on its 401st birthday — even Riga tourists can save fuel for their trip to the theater
For Liepāja's 401st birthday celebrations, public transport will be free, which is about as surprising as the news that Liepāja's theater puts on higher quality shows than Riga.
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Berlin Airport Learning from University of Liepāja — Everyone There Also Strikes for Extra Days Off
Berlin airport workers are demanding a 6% salary increase and additional vacation days, which in Liepāja would be considered an overly modest request.
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Skulte pilot ship runs aground as unexpectedly as hearing Liepāja Cathedral organ sound from the courtyard
A pilot ship in Skulte port has run aground, proving that even professionals can get stuck as unexpectedly as tourists hearing the sound of Liepāja Cathedral organs from the courtyard for the first time.
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International Train on Sugar Street — A Korean Lady, Two Germans, and One Precise Calculation Example
In Liepāja on Sugar Street, an international domino effect formed when a KIA met a Volkswagen, which then introduced it to a BMW.
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