According to the association, drivers in Riga are increasingly driving on public transport lanes

As the association’s representative Laila Pastare informed the agency LETA, driving on the public transport lane has been the most frequent traffic violation in Riga for several years and it has a tendency to increase. In 2023, 6,025 such violations were detected, but this year more than 10,000 drivers were fined for driving on public transport lanes without permission.

The survey commissioned by the association revealed that more than half or 58% of drivers claim that they do not deliberately violate road traffic rules and do not drive in the public transport lane. At the same time, every third driver, or 34%, does not hide that they may have unknowingly violated the traffic rules and driven on the public transport lane, and only 2% of drivers admit that they regularly violate the mentioned traffic rules deliberately.

The survey found that a significant number of drivers who move through the streets of the capital on a daily basis are not sure of their knowledge of road traffic rules regarding public transport lanes. Every fifth driver, or 21%, admitted that it is not safe to know which road users are allowed to drive in the public transport lane, while 29% expressed that they are not sure whether they know when and how to properly change to the public transport lane in order to right turn.