Better Times for This Tram? | Riga Tram (Rīgas Tramvajs) 🇱🇻🚃| Urban Transport #18

The tram system of Riga (Rīgas Tramvajs) has had a troubled decade, to say the least. Various scandals and poor management saw the system facing quite some setbacks, but it seems as if better days have arrived. All kinds of work are happening to make this system fit for the future.

This video is the 18th episode of the series Urban Transport, with full-on descriptions of various urban public transport networks (for now in Europe).

If you would like to see the video about the tram system of Latvia's 2nd largest city (Daugavpils), click the link below:    • Trams work in small cities too! | Daugavpi...  

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00:00 Intro
00:40 Route & Technical Details
01:52 History
04:38 Fleet
06:13 Future
08:17 Outro