On September 22, 2008, the agreement on construction of the Eastern Arterial’s intersection with Gaujas Street (follow-up of the existing traffic overpass on Vairogu Street) was signed between the Riga City Council Traffic Department and the General Partnership TLTB. GP TLTB provided the materials and human resources necessary for the project. The following steps were made in the framework of this contract: site preparation works, construction works of bored piles, concreting of rests and scaffold bridges, widening of the existing roadway, road construction works, construction of the traffic lights, electrical works, rainwater drainage construction works. In total there are two scaffold bridges, each 506 m x 11.50 m.
Construction work was to be completed in October 2010, but due to the rapid decline of the economic situation and the budget the Riga City Council adopted for 2009 and 2010, the amount of payment planned in the contract for works that had to be done in 2009 and 2010 was cut short. Within the given financial support, the work was carried out until July 2010, resumed in April 2011 and completed in November 2011.
Technical specifications of the construction:
• Total length of the constructed street (traffic overpass): 1128 m;
• Total area, in which the construction works were carried out: 62,206 m2, including: roadway area of 30,301 m2, the sidewalk area of 2625 m2, lawn area: 15,754 m2, bracing of the slops with grass sowings: 370 m2.