Riga Metro
Proposed metro system in Riga, Latvia in the 1980's / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Riga Metro (Latvian: Rīgas metro) was a planned metro system in Riga, Latvia,[1] during the time of the Soviet Union. Three lines with a total of 33 stations were planned to be built by 2021, however in the late 1980s, during the Singing Revolution, the whole project met with opposition and combined with the fall of the Soviet Union, construction, which was planned to begin in 1990, never took place.
Riga Metro | |||
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Overview | |||
Locale | Riga, Latvia | ||
Transit type | Rapid transit | ||
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Began operation | Never started | ||
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The population of the city has been declining due to emigration and negative population growth rate since 1990, making the prospects of a full metro system, even with EU funding, unrealistic in the near future. In fact, after the fall of the Soviet Union, possible construction of the metro system has seldom been publicly discussed, even dismissed as unnecessary.