Riga invests in lights for pedestrian safety

Latvia’s capital Riga will invest around €280,000 to upgrade pedestrian crossings and another €400,000 in better traffic lights. The aim is to improve visibility and vehicle flow at pedestrian crossings because of concerns over the number of accidents, some of them fatal to children. According to local media, police reported 65 traffic accidents at crossings last year. Three were fatal and ten of the accidents seriously injured children. So far this year, 16 such traffic accidents have been registered
April 4, 2017 Read time: 1 min
Latvia’s capital Riga will invest around €280,000 to upgrade pedestrian crossings and another €400,000 in better traffic lights.

The aim is to improve visibility and vehicle flow at pedestrian crossings because of concerns over the number of accidents, some of them fatal to children.

According to local media, police reported 65 traffic accidents at crossings last year. Three were fatal and ten of the accidents seriously injured children. So far this year, 16 such traffic accidents have been registered.

Solutions may include road ribbing in an approach to a pedestrian crossing

However, police also said more than 17,000 reports were compiled in relation to pedestrians violating road traffic rules.

Riga had more than 500 pedestrian crossings, of which 100 are regulated by traffic lights, and 137 are fitted with additional lighting systems and 280 have no lighting
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