Because the city was down for a metro – a three-line network, in fact, a formally and conceptually adventurous system that would have been the most expensive ever built in the Soviet Union, and which would have extended to every corner of the city and then snaked out beyond. First envisioned in the early ‘70s, it had a lengthy gestation period with many setbacks and delays, but when it finally seemed ready to go in the late ‘80s, everything fell apart as it came up against suddenly emboldened movements for autonomy and environmental protection. After a ferocious campaign of opposition from local residents and pressure groups conducted under the slogan “Metro Nav Draugs” (“The Metro Is Not a Friend”), the idea was quietly dropped.
So much brainworms in the baltics. A metro system is like the most efficient and environmentally friendly ways of transporting people.
" the Estonia is made up of beet and onion slop eating hungarians who polished the cocks of german horses for 1000 years before being elevated to sapience by the USSR."
This is a very strange article. I can't tell if the author is complaining that the soviets tried to fix the cities infrastructure problems or do something else. It kind of sounds like the author is trying to say "this metro system would have been really cool put also the soviets are mean nasty baddies. Idk.
Riga is the largest capital city in the European Union not to have an underground rapid transit system
No it isn't. Zagreb doesn't have a metro and has a bigger population than Riga (around 750k to 650k).
