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@busjongen 🥐

[0-𝟖00-𝐒𝐈𝐌-O𝐍 @simon_indd]

Geeft niks bus

[LUKEY ✣ @VERYKOOLLUKEY]

I love authentic Latvian culture

[Edijs Pālens @edijsfotolv]

Robis pīpējot to maratonu var noskriet! :) Foto: Edijs Pālens, LETA

[❀ lil durk ❀ @runawaywithme]

oh nee de cuckstoel is defect

[Andris Tihomirovs @atihomirovs]

Līdzīgas emocijas būs latviešiem par RailBaltica 2083. gadā.

[H. Paščenko @pppascenko]

Unfortunately, a significant part of Riga’s problem is political

There are members of Riga City Council who do not actually live urban lives in Riga. Many of them live outside the city and treat Riga primarily as a place they need to drive into in the morning and escape from in the evening. As a result, their political priority is not the quality of life inside the city, but the fastest possible car commute from the suburbs

This is why they consistently resist, delay, or water down projects that would improve cycling and pedestrian infrastructure, calm traffic, make streets safer, or transform dusty urban highways into proper city streets for people. Anything that slightly reduces car dominance is framed as an attack on drivers, even when the goal is simply to make Riga more liveable, safer, cleaner, and more European

And the tactics are always the same. The moment a bike lane, a safer crossing, or any traffic-calming measure is proposed, they immediately start appealing to emotion and fear. They bring in the usual car-centric voices from emergency services, who reliably claim that if a bike lane is built here, ambulances will not be able to get through and people will die. Then come the fire trucks that supposedly will no longer be able to pass or turn around. Then come the children who allegedly cannot be driven right up to the school entrance. It is a whole catalogue of cheap emotional arguments

What makes it even more absurd is that they completely ignore the fact that the very problems they describe are usually much worse elsewhere — and not because of bike lanes, but because of chaotic car parking, oversized traffic flows, and streets designed only around private vehicles. Ambulances and fire trucks are often blocked not by cyclists or pedestrian crossings, but by parked cars. Yet that part is somehow invisible to them

The tragedy is that this keeps the city stuck. Riga is not merely developing slowly — it is visibly falling behind Tallinn and Vilnius. Those cities are already thinking in a much more contemporary European way: streets are public spaces, not just traffic corridors; mobility is not reduced to private cars; and city centres are being shaped around people, not suburban commuting patterns

In Riga, however, too many decisions are still made through the logic of the 1990s: wider roads, faster car access, more parking, fewer “obstacles” for through-traffic. The result is a city that remains noisy, dusty, hostile to pedestrians, dangerous for cyclists, and emotionally exhausting to live in

What makes this especially bitter is that the problem is not a lack of knowledge. The solutions are obvious. They have been tested across Europe for decades. Riga does not need to invent anything radical — it simply needs to stop sabotaging normal urban progress

But as long as the city is governed by people whose main relationship with Riga is driving through it, every serious attempt to make it a better place to live will be treated as an inconvenience

[0-𝟖00-𝐒𝐈𝐌-O𝐍 @simon_indd]

@djjapanis @BensLatkovskis I agree, Riga deserves better connectivity like Western European cities. Traffic is terrible in the city. If money was invested in good public transport (the base is already good) + park+rides at cities edges. You can tell Riga is one of the most air polluted cities in Europe…

[0-𝟖00-𝐒𝐈𝐌-O𝐍 @simon_indd]

@NOS waarom maken jullie het acht uur journaal niet online beschikbaar in het buitenland? Enkel in de app van NPO Start, maar niet in de webversie… Alle andere uitzendingen zijn wel te zien.

[LNVM Tautas frontes muzejs @frontes_muzejs]

📽️LNVM krājums

[0-𝟖00-𝐒𝐈𝐌-O𝐍 @simon_indd]

@dragonslay3rr Maar ze moeten iets te zeuren houden hè

[Homo saPIENS @cactus_is_love]

"my body is a temple"

the temple in question:

[PUSH ALL 🚗 INTO 🌊 NOW ‼️ 🫵 @bonobomindset]

scrolling through some gay muscle slut's media tab looking for more pictures of his fat juicy tits and it's just hundreds of gifs of black women and dogs and spongebob

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

You’re laughing? A Dutch newspaper is going to have the front page headline: “Khamenei Dood. Wat Nou?” and you’re laughing?

[𝐍.🎀༘⋆ @luvblessingz]

I hate when a bitch I can't stand makes a valid point.

[Antonius @onthoofd]

Goedemorgen. Clavicular is geframemogged door de ASU frat leader.

[Huub Bellemakers @HuubBellemakers]

No, she is meant to marry one of the Dutch Princesses, thus forging the long overdue North Sea-empire.

[0-𝟖00-𝐒𝐈𝐌-O𝐍 @simon_indd]

@beepboopbieb Ronduit gênant

[Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman94]

Shots fired.