As of October 15, 2025, when electronic queue registration was introduced for crossing Latvia's external border, 28,807 vehicles have crossed the border in the direction of Russia and Belarus, the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LSRTC) reported to the LETA agency.
The largest number of vehicles crossed the border of Latvia and Belarus at the Paternieki border crossing point - 13,115 freight and passenger vehicles.
The decision to implement electronic queue registration was introduced in the fall of last year to eliminate significant risks to traffic safety and other types of safety caused by kilometers of queues of freight vehicles on the roadside at the border, which formed when trucks waited for days and weeks for the opportunity to cross the border.
The "lvrobeza.lv" solution is a temporary measure while the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LSRTC) develops an information system and portal for users.
Since crossing the border is only possible at the registered time, there are no longer any physical or legal reasons to wait in queues on the roadside, and vehicles are no longer concentrated in the border area waiting for their crossing time in specially equipped parking lots or other locations, without entering the border area.
However, the new system has seen attempts to trade reserved times, as well as attempts to complicate the system's operation by simultaneously sending a large number of automated requests, which occupied most of the available time slots.
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