Bratislava motorists who slip up on the rules of the city-wide parking policy, known as PAAS, will soon be given a second chance, after city councillors approved a change turning the first fine in a year into a warning. The amendment to the city’s property management principles, passed unanimously by the Bratislava City Council last…
A 10-million euro green hydrogen plant under construction in Vilnius is expected to begin producing clean fuel for the capital’s public transport system this autumn, Mayor Valdas Benkunskas has said. The facility is being developed by municipal heat supplier Miesto Gijos. Once completed, it will supply hydrogen to power the city’s first hydrogen-fuelled buses, which…
Estonian Minister of Infrastructure Kuldar Leis (Reform) said there was an agreement with Latvia that the Rail Baltia line would be completed until the end of the decade despite concerns about delays. Estonia has pledged to complete the first phase of its Rail Baltic project until 2030, but concerns persist regarding the section of railway…
Rail Baltica construction is significantly cheaper in Estonia, where a full kilometer of the railway will cost about the same as the substructure alone in Latvia. Latvian Transport Minister Atis Svinka said this week that building the 45-kilometer stretch from Misa to the Lithuanian border would cost over EUR 520 million, or about EUR 11.57…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has decided to launch an experimental mechanism of state ordering for domestic long-distance passenger transportation. The project was developed by the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance. This is a gradual transition to the European PSO (Public Service Obligation) model, when the…
The Finnish airline Finnair is planning to resume flights between Vilnius and Helsinki on March 1 after they were suspended last December following airspace disruptions by smuggler balloons from Belarus. “From March 1, Finnair will resume its evening flight between Helsinki and Vilnius, which was temporarily suspended when the hybrid attack took place. Tickets are…
The way the Road Fund’s resources were used in 205 for repairs and for maintaining the national public road network, as well as the budgeting for 2026, were the topics examined at a meeting of the Road Fund Council, chaired by the Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu. In total, a budget of about 2.59 billion lei…