>>1213878Idritvaimicītņihujase, izrādās es neesmu vienīgais latvijietis kurš lasa šo dēli ^^
The last 14Tr and 15Tr were retired from revenue service around 2015. They werent't ridiculously old vehicles for a not-so-first-world city: a good bunch of 14Tr were from 1998. Also, unlike 9Tr, they weren't clumsy in traffic. I do miss the enjoyment of their 80s look and the noise their motors were making at higher speeds.
I saw some 14Tr still being used for learner's driving last year, not sure if they still do it now.
>numbers on Wikipedia are just super wrong as sometimes they count only length of the overhead wires network, sometimes the length of the linesTrue, btw this happens with trams too.
However, even if you'd try your best in getting an accurate total length of all routes for benchmarking like this, what would you do when some routes are partially overhead, partially battery or, as in the case of Riga, diesel-generator powered?
Pic related is a stop on one of these sections, the one and only stop in Riga shared by busses, trams and trolleybusses.
Anyway, at the moment there are 17 routes. Some of them are the public transport backbone for respective neighbourhoods, some are rather short and/or weird and/or not very busy (there were more of such, but those had been gradually shut down since the 90s, another two got closed recently; however, most of those were overlapping with other routes, hence, these closures meant only a minuscule loss of the overhead infrastructure), some are something inbetween. There are no plans to considerably shrink the network, yet I can see some further "optimisation" taking place, i.e. another few less-busy routes getting merged or closed.
