Clean, Tidy but Flat Ride
It is a bit scary, but the tram sets off enthusiastically on its reserved track.
… before making a sharp right hand turn to get to the railway station.
The station is almost unchanged since the 1900s …
The route then continues …
… southbound to the town centre.
We pass the turnoff to the depot and enjoy some road works (track works?) …
…nwhere cobbles are being replaced by cobbles. Nice!
We cross the cut-through from sea to Liapaja Lake …
… and continue southbound; where the ambiance, although not totally rural, is very much small town in character …
… with lots of greenery.
There is even a little bit of tram only track, where road traffic has been sent round two sides of a grassy triangle.
More semi-rural progress …
… unil a community of low rise and bigger blocks of flats is encountered
Next comes the point at which the 2013 extension turns left leaving that former stub unserved and trackless.
We are now on the first extension to Ezerkrats, the only extension of the system since 1899 …
… which must he some kind of record.
The terminal loop (above) is almost on the shore of the Liepaya Lake; althogh the “waterfront” has a touch of the shanty town about it!
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Note the buses parked in the tram loop!
As the transport network map shows, Ezerkrats is also the terminus of several bus routes.
Note also that the bus map does not show the tram – that would never do!
You only get departure lists from the outer terminus of all the routes, tram or bus.
Most bus routes are relatively infrequent …
… although the 2 excels itself by reaching the dizzy heights of every 12 minutes at peak times.
Fares are, as you would expect, ludicrously cheap.
Wow! £5 for a three day ticket. As they say in the shopping centres of Liepaja:-