Projects

Representatives of the Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter – the Road Administration) visited colleagues in Poland, where they inspected the construction works being carried out on the S61 Augustow-Budzisko road (part of the “Via Baltica” project in Poland), and familiarised themselves with the technology used to construct concrete roads. This project will help assess whether asphalt concrete surface can be used in Lithuania in the future.

The preventive traffic safety campaign “Be Safe, Careful and Healthy”, organised by the Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter – the Road Administration) together with its main partners – representatives of public health offices, firefighters and police officers, attracted around 2,000 participants. The campaign was designed to raise awareness of the importance of road safety, to encourage all road users to behave responsibly on the roads and streets, to wear seat belts, to be attentive and to respect each other on the road. The campaign took place between 12 May and 8 July this year. A total of 10 campaign events were organised, one in each county. The choice of venues was made with the aim of reaching out to community members living away from Lithuania’s major city centres, who have fewer opportunities to take part in actions of this kind.

During the summer of this year, the Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter – the Road Administration) will carry out design studies of the national road No. 167 Smiltynė-Nida*. Once the pre-design studies have been carried out, the most appropriate type of repair for the road will be selected. The poor state of the road’s surface makes it necessary to repair it. The surface repair works are planned to take place between 2023 and 2024.

More than 50,000 schoolchildren from all over Lithuania tested their road safety knowledge and skills this year at the organisers of the “Save Young Lives on the Road” competition. Primary school pupils took part in the “Traffic Light” competition, young cyclists competed in the “Safe Wheel” competition, and older road users competed on mopeds and scooters and in cars.

Last week, the annual meeting of the internal auditors of the Nordic and Baltic national road administrations was organised by the Lithuanian Road Administration and attended by representatives from Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Latvia and Lithuania. The main theme of this year’s meeting is “Challenges and Issues of Internal Audit 2020-2021”.

In Neringa, a part of the pedestrian and bicycle path from Smiltyne to Juodkrante (sections from 2.104 km to 2.956 km and from 2.956 km to 15.567 km) has already been designed. The projects can be implemented after the approval of the Curonian Spit National Park Authority and other interested institutions. It is planned that reconstruction works on this section could start in quarter III-IV of this year, after receiving the approvals from the responsible authorities and successful public procurement.

On 7 June this year, the Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Road Administration) organised a remote seminar for municipalities on the topic “Amendments to the legal acts regulating the use of the funds of the Road Maintenance and Development Programme (hereinafter- the RMDP) for roads of local importance”.

Reconstruction of the section of the main road outside Kaunas near the village of Giraitės (A1 Vilnius-Kaunas-Klaipėda from 102.90 to 107.00 km) has eliminated one of the most dangerous single level crossings in the national road network. Traffic on the newly built infrastructure was opened on 7 June this year.

The Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter – the Road Administration) announced a public procurement for the preparation of technical work projects and supervision of the execution of the projects for the overhaul of the section of the A14 Vilnius-Utena road from Molėtai to Utena.

The Public Enterprise Lithuanian Road Administration announced a public procurement for the reconstruction of the section of the main road A5 Kaunas-Marijampolė-Suvalkai (“Via Baltica”) from 72.50 km to 79 km. Following successful public procurement procedures, it is expected that the contract with the contractor will be concluded in the third quarter of this year.