Once every half hour? Every 15 minutes? - The network is debating how often transport should run in Riga

"One bus every 15 minutes to Imanta, where 40,000 Rīga residents live, is a mockery. It actually amounts to one bus every half hour for those living at one end of Imanta. It’s no surprise that people are using cars," she writes.

At the same time, the author of the post does not actually live in Imanta, but in Kipsala, as revealed in the comments, but why not inquire about how transport operates in other neighborhoods?

The tweet did not go unnoticed - there have been quite a few responses to it. Here are some of the most characteristic:

• The 1st tram runs to Imanta, every 10 minutes on weekends during the day. The 21st bus is also close to the Esplanade.

• Traveling by car is not a crime at all. All road users in Riga have and will have equal rights!

• What has Imanta done this time to deserve attention and cawing? That it took a trip from the Planetarium (crossed out) Cathedral to Kipsala? Then there is also the 53rd bus. It’s no news that transport in Riga runs infrequently. But it does run for a long time: on many "big" routes, the last trip is after 23:00.

• There are TOO MANY routes; we are wasting what we have, and the "grandma buses" are only suitable for grandmothers. We need far fewer and at least every 15-20 minutes, even more often during peak times!

• I do not support the discrimination of grandmothers! Older people work here, participate in their grandchildren's lives. Every doomed route increases the number of cars.

• This is somewhat like the noise when you see things only and exclusively from your own point of view. Do all 40,000 of them really need a direct route to your KIPSALA?

• HOW to get home from the Esplanade??? Maybe you should also go to Vecmilgravis and complain that the 40,000 residents of Imanta don’t have a direct route every 5 minutes? The center of routes in any major city is the vicinity of the central station. If you want to go right/left, you can always transfer.

• In Dreiliņi, there is one bus an hour.

• I have been saying this for a long time... Although my daily route is only 5 km one way, it takes 20 minutes by car, but on public transport... One morning I took my child to school and then to work... 1.5 hours.

• Why should I transfer from a warm and nice car to a dirty and slow bus?

• There wasn’t enough photo to show how overcrowded that bus was. It could be full, or it could be empty. That’s how propaganda usually writes - gives news without an explanatory plot...

• In Mangalsala, Vecaki, and Vecdaugava, it runs even less frequently...

• One bus for each Rīga resident.

• I am actually a resident of the suburbs of Riga. But on weekends, when I could go to Riga with my children, public transport does not run at all. This is exactly how Riga wants fewer cars in the city. I also can’t get to the family doctor on a working day or to the store because you have to book a trip with a stroller 48 hours in advance.

• Actually, there is still a tram running to Imanta, and in Bolderāja, there is only the 3rd bus, and the last one is after 23:00; there is no more transport. When the Rīga City Council launched night transport to other districts in the summer, there was none in Bolderāja.

• I don’t understand. Can you really not adapt? Once every 30 minutes is quite enough (plus there is GPS data). I have no problem adapting to the 44th or 56th bus, which runs once an hour, when needed. You can always walk/transfer, etc. There is GPS data. No need to whine.

• Well, the "Progressives" are doing everything they can to eliminate cars in Riga. Today, the bike paths are full.