I have not been able to find a more recent study. Pretty sure roads have improved even more since then. Main source is world economic forum and according to 2019 done research Lithuania ranks 38 world wide
braliukas, f Latvian roads. i pay 173euros each year for road tax, and again pay to replace parts on my car, because of bad roads. it sucks.
Roads are pretty good in Lithuania. Of course if you head out to the villages in the remote areas, it’s not that great. However that being said, if you look at Belgium for example, it’s better than the French speaking part (Wallonia). Which coincidentally takes Belgium’s average down because the Flemish part have excellent roads, the Wallonian part has terrible roads.
why lithuanian nords coming back to ltu complaining so much then?
It feels like road quality is getting better in cities and surrounding areas, but in more rural areas the road quality is worsening. One example I could give is the road to Poland from Lazdijai – as soon as you enter Polish territory, the roads get way better, while in our territory they do look terrible.
I can’t say anything personal about what’s up north – but taking a look at google street view – it seems that Latvian roads near the border are better than Lithuania’s.
Would rate our roads 7/10. Kaunas city is once again struggling quite a lot to provide proper quality of road pavement.
There is another issue as well, poor road planning.
Someone who has to go to Vilnius through a road called “Molėtų plentas” or “Vilnius – Utena”, this maps doesn’t make any sense to me.
Can confirm
Vilnius: best i can do is gravel (5km from city center)
Polish roads are way way better, at least near the border regions yet It’s worse on this map so idk, I wouldn’t agree
This summer I made a trip from Kaunas all the way to Prague by car and yes, that means a road trip through the whole of Poland and just to spice things up, I chose to visit Olsztyn.
So to everyone who says that polish roads near border are great, I can agree to some extent
But 90% anywhere else, the range is between “in need of maintanance” to “barely drivable in 2nd gear”
And all these comments “well you haven’t seen Vilnius – whatever” I understand that you do prioritise mainly roads that you use yourself daily in your own criticism but then as someone who daily uses “via Baltica” oh, I think we got some very nice highway (finally…)
So that’s a lie
Skuodas – Ryga. Nevažiavę nesupras. Turbūt geresnės simuliacijos kaip atrodytų važiavimas mėnulio paviršium europoj neegzistuoja. Latvijoj keliai tikrai prastesni nei Lietuvoj, ypač pasijaučia toliau nuo didesnių miestų. Iš belekokio Žemaitijos miesto realiai link Rygos važiuojant pirmi 50km arba mėnulio paviršius arba žvyrkelis. Iš Mažeikių važiavom link Rundalės rūmų dar aplankant pakeliui įdomias vietas tai realiai visi 120km buvo žvyrkelis ir nemažai vietų tokios kur jau šimtas metų grederiavimo prašosi.
After visiting Poland, not only near the border, Lithuanian roads are shit, including Vilnius – Panevezys.
If not for Kaunas, we’d be first in EU :Ddd
Greetimgs from Vilnius.
Compared to both neighbouring and western European countries, the road infrastructure in Lithuania is abysmal. I don’t know how this infographic was derived.
There are some renovated or new roads in Lithuanian cities and the countryside that are of great quality (portions of the completed Via Baltica, Vilnius and Kaunas ringroads etc.). But majority of the roads are way past their due renovation date (especially in cities) and they’re being renovated on a very miniscule scale for the renovations to have a substancially visible effect. There are also tons of roads that are supposedly renovated, but it doesn’t show (Vilnius-Kaunas for example).
What I mean by road quality is not just the presence or lack of potholes, but overall design and driving experience. The pothole situation is dire, especially in cities. Both new and old roads here have cheap asphalt mixtures that don’t survive even a few cold weather cycles without damage and even new roads provide a bumpy ride compared to what you’d see on say the autobahn in Germany. The road design is a far cry from what’d you’d see in western Europe – irrational, sometimes even dangerous road trajectories, nonsensical lane quantities and mergings, overscaled roundabouts and intersections. The road infrastructure here is mostly just a relic of Soviet ‘design’ with the surface redone if you’re lucky. It’s a very car-centric country but the car infrastructure isn’t even good. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted to death but Lithuanians don’t know how good transportation infrastructure is in other countries generally.
I’d like to see more bicycle roads instead, idgaf about roads for cars
Molėtų plentas pripažintas geriausiu keliu Vakarų Europoje
I went to Lithuania for 2 weeks this summer. The roads are good, even if for a French person it was surprising that your highways had bus stops , benches for people, cycles and traffic lights with agricultural trucks crossing haha 😀
But quality roads !
Dunno, estonian roads seemed much better to me than lithuanian.
It’s correct on latvia tho
2019 data
I think its a lie. Roads in LT are not good. Just my opinion. Lots of potholes, bad fixes on the road. Also they want to make vilnius-kaunas-klaipeda highway to limit it to 100kmh depending on its condition…
sori braliūkai, bet jūsu keliai yr žiaurūs. 90% visu mana su tėvais kelioniu metu buva tvarkomi keliai. kartais iki 10 min. prastoviedavom pire viena šviesofora
Manau, derėtų atsisakyt privilegijos meluot sau, jog esam geroj pozicijoj (net jei lenkiam kaimynus).
Austria 6.0 xD
Their highways are garbage.
Greece has better roads than Serbia? Fucking ridiculous bro.
Roads in Latvia are shit, Lithuania could be better and Estonians fear 4 lane roads
no
all accurate but damn is Slovakia wrong. that place doesn’t get anywhere near a 4 and certainly isn’t in a better state than Czechia
I emigrated from Lithuania close to 20 years ago now. I come to visit every few years, each time it’s like visiting a new country. From the infrastructure to the culture, everything is improving at quite an impressive rate.
I’d say on average the roads are about as good as the roads in the American Midwest, which has a similar climate.
The only thing that I found unacceptable is the Vilnius-Klaipeda highway. The right lane in both directions was beat to fuck, forcing me to drive in the left lane when no one was passing me.
Also, the parking lot spaces are TINY. It’s like they were designed for Fiat 500 or Smart cars. Good luck parking a mid-size SUV without getting your door dinged. Whoever designed them didn’t get the memo that modern cars are getting bigger with each generation.
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I have not been able to find a more recent study. Pretty sure roads have improved even more since then. Main source is world economic forum and according to 2019 done research Lithuania ranks 38 world wide
braliukas, f Latvian roads. i pay 173euros each year for road tax, and again pay to replace parts on my car, because of bad roads. it sucks.
Roads are pretty good in Lithuania. Of course if you head out to the villages in the remote areas, it’s not that great. However that being said, if you look at Belgium for example, it’s better than the French speaking part (Wallonia). Which coincidentally takes Belgium’s average down because the Flemish part have excellent roads, the Wallonian part has terrible roads.
why lithuanian nords coming back to ltu complaining so much then?
It feels like road quality is getting better in cities and surrounding areas, but in more rural areas the road quality is worsening. One example I could give is the road to Poland from Lazdijai – as soon as you enter Polish territory, the roads get way better, while in our territory they do look terrible.
I can’t say anything personal about what’s up north – but taking a look at google street view – it seems that Latvian roads near the border are better than Lithuania’s.
Would rate our roads 7/10. Kaunas city is once again struggling quite a lot to provide proper quality of road pavement.
There is another issue as well, poor road planning.
Someone who has to go to Vilnius through a road called “Molėtų plentas” or “Vilnius – Utena”, this maps doesn’t make any sense to me.
Can confirm
Vilnius: best i can do is gravel (5km from city center)
Polish roads are way way better, at least near the border regions yet It’s worse on this map so idk, I wouldn’t agree
This summer I made a trip from Kaunas all the way to Prague by car and yes, that means a road trip through the whole of Poland and just to spice things up, I chose to visit Olsztyn.
So to everyone who says that polish roads near border are great, I can agree to some extent
But 90% anywhere else, the range is between “in need of maintanance” to “barely drivable in 2nd gear”
And all these comments “well you haven’t seen Vilnius – whatever” I understand that you do prioritise mainly roads that you use yourself daily in your own criticism but then as someone who daily uses “via Baltica” oh, I think we got some very nice highway (finally…)
So that’s a lie
Skuodas – Ryga. Nevažiavę nesupras. Turbūt geresnės simuliacijos kaip atrodytų važiavimas mėnulio paviršium europoj neegzistuoja. Latvijoj keliai tikrai prastesni nei Lietuvoj, ypač pasijaučia toliau nuo didesnių miestų. Iš belekokio Žemaitijos miesto realiai link Rygos važiuojant pirmi 50km arba mėnulio paviršius arba žvyrkelis. Iš Mažeikių važiavom link Rundalės rūmų dar aplankant pakeliui įdomias vietas tai realiai visi 120km buvo žvyrkelis ir nemažai vietų tokios kur jau šimtas metų grederiavimo prašosi.
After visiting Poland, not only near the border, Lithuanian roads are shit, including Vilnius – Panevezys.
If not for Kaunas, we’d be first in EU :Ddd
Greetimgs from Vilnius.
Compared to both neighbouring and western European countries, the road infrastructure in Lithuania is abysmal. I don’t know how this infographic was derived.
There are some renovated or new roads in Lithuanian cities and the countryside that are of great quality (portions of the completed Via Baltica, Vilnius and Kaunas ringroads etc.). But majority of the roads are way past their due renovation date (especially in cities) and they’re being renovated on a very miniscule scale for the renovations to have a substancially visible effect. There are also tons of roads that are supposedly renovated, but it doesn’t show (Vilnius-Kaunas for example).
What I mean by road quality is not just the presence or lack of potholes, but overall design and driving experience. The pothole situation is dire, especially in cities. Both new and old roads here have cheap asphalt mixtures that don’t survive even a few cold weather cycles without damage and even new roads provide a bumpy ride compared to what you’d see on say the autobahn in Germany. The road design is a far cry from what’d you’d see in western Europe – irrational, sometimes even dangerous road trajectories, nonsensical lane quantities and mergings, overscaled roundabouts and intersections. The road infrastructure here is mostly just a relic of Soviet ‘design’ with the surface redone if you’re lucky. It’s a very car-centric country but the car infrastructure isn’t even good. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted to death but Lithuanians don’t know how good transportation infrastructure is in other countries generally.
I’d like to see more bicycle roads instead, idgaf about roads for cars
Molėtų plentas pripažintas geriausiu keliu Vakarų Europoje
I went to Lithuania for 2 weeks this summer. The roads are good, even if for a French person it was surprising that your highways had bus stops , benches for people, cycles and traffic lights with agricultural trucks crossing haha 😀
But quality roads !
Dunno, estonian roads seemed much better to me than lithuanian.
It’s correct on latvia tho
2019 data
I think its a lie. Roads in LT are not good. Just my opinion. Lots of potholes, bad fixes on the road. Also they want to make vilnius-kaunas-klaipeda highway to limit it to 100kmh depending on its condition…
sori braliūkai, bet jūsu keliai yr žiaurūs. 90% visu mana su tėvais kelioniu metu buva tvarkomi keliai. kartais iki 10 min. prastoviedavom pire viena šviesofora
(Lietuviškas straipsnis)
[Kelių auditas 2018 parodė, kad Lietuvos keliai – su nemažai trūkumų.](https://alkas.lt/2018/06/29/keliu-kokybes-audito-rezultatai-be-defektu-tik-4-is-33-keliu/)
Manau, derėtų atsisakyt privilegijos meluot sau, jog esam geroj pozicijoj (net jei lenkiam kaimynus).
Austria 6.0 xD
Their highways are garbage.
Greece has better roads than Serbia? Fucking ridiculous bro.
Roads in Latvia are shit, Lithuania could be better and Estonians fear 4 lane roads
no
all accurate but damn is Slovakia wrong. that place doesn’t get anywhere near a 4 and certainly isn’t in a better state than Czechia
I emigrated from Lithuania close to 20 years ago now. I come to visit every few years, each time it’s like visiting a new country. From the infrastructure to the culture, everything is improving at quite an impressive rate.
I’d say on average the roads are about as good as the roads in the American Midwest, which has a similar climate.
The only thing that I found unacceptable is the Vilnius-Klaipeda highway. The right lane in both directions was beat to fuck, forcing me to drive in the left lane when no one was passing me.
Also, the parking lot spaces are TINY. It’s like they were designed for Fiat 500 or Smart cars. Good luck parking a mid-size SUV without getting your door dinged. Whoever designed them didn’t get the memo that modern cars are getting bigger with each generation.
Roads are meh