Projects

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.

The winners of the drawing competition “Road Safety 2022” initiated by the Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter – the Road Administration) have been announced: Fifth grade pupil Austėja Pužauskaitė of Šakiai School “Varpas”, seventh grade pupil Grantas Grudzinskas of Butrimonys gymnasium of the Alytus Region, first grade pupil Kamilė Savickaitė of “Versmes” gymnasium of Taurage region, fourth grade pupil Ugnė Barakauskaitė of Žemaičiu Naumiestis School – kindergarten of the Šilute Region, eighth grade pupil Marija Šmakotinaitė of Panevežys “Šaltinis” Progymnasium, and a pupil Nika Pyrčak of the Visaginas Education Centre.

The State Enterprise Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter – the Road Administration) is organising the competition “Traffic Safety in Communities 2022-2023” (hereinafter – the Competition) and invites communities in Lithuanian villages and towns to register and actively participate in the implementation of traffic safety projects.

A public procurement (Procurement) has been announced for the pre-design solutions to reconstruct the national road of state significance No. 130 Kaunas–Prienai–Alytus section from 11.60 to 31.10 km.

The State Enterprise Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Road Administration) together with its partners – the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and Lithuanian Road Police Service – organizes the national competition of the Lithuanian schoolchildren “Save Young Lives on the Roads”.

During the chairmanship of the Lithuanian Road Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Road Administration) of the Baltic Road Association (BRA), the main priorities and directions were approved to be implemented by the Technical Committees and Working Groups on strategy, planning, ITS, road research, traffic safety, road maintenance.

The lowest ever determined number of fatalities per year was registered in Lithuania and eight other European Union (EU) Member States (Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Poland, Portugal and Sweden). Such data were published by the European Commission after having assessed the preliminary data for 2021 of road fatalities.