Government Decides East is Too Close - Now Creating 2000 Hectare Barriers
While Liepāja's tram runs forward without problems, eastern regions are preparing anti-mobility lines - so no one can drive anywhere.
The government this week approved grandiose plans for the second phase of the Baltic Defense Line. Yes, you heard right — the first phase isn't even finished, but they're already rushing with the second. It's like the Riga tram project, just in the opposite direction.
In six eastern municipalities — Alūksne, Smiltene, Augšdaugava, Balvi, Krāslava and Ludza — they will now create 2000 hectares of anti-mobility infrastructure. That's almost as big as the entire Karosta territory! "Well, finally something useful will happen in the east," says Liepāja merchant Inese, "while they're building barriers there, we here by the sea live free as birds."
Property owners will receive compensation determined by a special commission with a certified appraiser. Probably the same appraiser who evaluates Riga apartments for cosmic sums. But here in the east, of course, prices will be lower — the farther from Liepāja, the cheaper.
Interestingly, this infrastructure is not subject to construction, forest management, or environmental protection requirements. In other words — they can do whatever they want. In Liepāja you can't even open a café without a hundred permits, but anti-mobility lines can be built like in the wild. "It's always been this way — Riga decides, the provinces do," philosophically concludes pensioner Valdis from Grobiņa, who today is going to Liepāja market for fresh fish.
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