A Vilnius woman can’t believe it: pedestrian paths in the capital, like in Soviet times – MadeinVilnius.lt

Janina from Vilnius cannot believe that the residents of the capital still have to tread on sidewalks in such poor condition.

“It is being considered that the Soviet road signs need to be changed, and it does not occur to anyone that the residents of the capital in Karoliniškės, near the Sietyns stop, on their way to Laisvė pr. 42, walking on the soviet crumbling sidewalks?

Those sidewalks are such that there is nowhere to stand, only potholes. Aren’t there any responsible employees who don’t see the need to update it and don’t respond to requests?”, Janina from Vilnius complained.

The trails are being groomed gradually

Gabrielius Grubinskas, Media Relations Specialist of the Communication Department of the Vilnius City Municipality, commented that the priority list of sidewalk repairs is made taking into account a number of criteria, including the level of wear and tear and the intensity of pedestrian traffic.

“In residential areas, there are still quite a lot of sidewalks in poor condition, and the municipality, due to limited financial resources, cannot fix them all at once. Therefore, pedestrian and bicycle paths are being maintained gradually, priority is given to those places where the path surface is the worst and the pedestrian traffic is the most intense.

Although the above-mentioned place on Laisvės avenue is not included in the list of pedestrian and bicycle paths planned for repair this year, due to the annually growing financing for infrastructure renewal, the renewal of paths is also accelerating, so it is likely that the sidewalks in this place will be repaired in the near future,” commented the representative of the municipality.