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	WWF Polska - informacje
		Via Baltica, an international expressway that is to pass across Poland, will probably be constructed at the expense of the most valuable natural areas of the Podlasie region.
		From the two possible route variants - via the town of Łomża and via the town of Białystok - the Ministry of Infrastructure selected the Białystok alternative despite it being nearly 30 km longer and causing a threat to Europe's unique refuges of protected fauna and flora.
		The intensity of the traffic, which moves via the shorter Łomża road anyway, would cease to be a serious problem for them.
	www.wwf.pl /informacje/eng/zyjaca_planeta_12003_6_en.php (611 words)

	Rail Baltica
		The Trans-European railway Rail Baltica, linking Helsinki – Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warsaw and continuing on to Berlin, is to be developed within the territories of the co-operating EU Member States.
		Rail Baltica will support the wider EU goals of parity of access to services and infrastructure of EU Member States and development of sustainable modes of transportation, improved balance and interoperability between different means of transportation and the establishment of links with the rest of the EU rail network.
		Via Baltica, road and rail, is a priority in the TEN networks, with only road improvements progressing to date.
	www.rail-baltica.net (569 words)

	WWF - Road to ruin
		In choosing the route via Bialystok, the Polish government is running roughshod over both Polish and EU legislation, disregarding requirements to both conduct environmental impact assessments for the route and observe restrictions for nature conservation and environmental protection.
		Indeed, the Via Baltica and other controversial projects were formally included in the annexes of the Accession Treaty signed by EU and accession countries last month in Athens.
		The decision on which route the Via Baltica expressway should take is essentially political, based on different visions for development of Podlasie, one of Poland’s poorest regions.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/opinions/index.cfm?uNewsID=7062 (1486 words)

	Eesti Raudtee (www.evr.ee)
		Although it is not yet clear which way Rail Baltica will pass through Estonia and Latvia, whether entirely new railway will be built or the old one reconstructed, when exactly it will be ready etc., it is all the same difficult to overestimate the importance of the new railway line.
		Rail Baltica is a monumental and interesting project and a bit complicated to comment on it right now, Riivo Sinijärv, Deputy Managing Director of Estonian Railways said.
		Rail Baltica would mainly compete with road transportation or Via Baltica where there are similar speeds in passenger as well as freight traffic in North-to-South direction.
	www.evr.ee /?id=1812&langchange=1 (1112 words)

	Rail Baltica, Via Baltica projects still far beyond the horizon
		Furthermore, the Via Baltica project is nowhere near as radical as it seems.
		The Via Baltica plan covers over 200 kilometers of road in Latvia, and our total annual budget from the state is about 50 million lats.
		While the Via Baltica is based on an existing road network and can thus be implemented piecemeal, Rail Baltica would require construction from scratch, with all the cost and risk that entails.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/12353 (1082 words)

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		Among these are the projects on the Via Baltica highway and the Rail Baltica railway.
		The second project, Rail Baltica, is considered to be one of the most important from the 30 currently selected priority projects on infrastructure to be financed with the EU funds.
		According to specialists from the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the laying of a modern railway line, Tallinn-Warsaw, via Kaunas during the implementation of the Rail Baltica project is important to all the Baltic states.
	lbr.neolitas.lt /2005_03/3_str.html (933 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Motorway plan threatens elk, wolf and lynx
		An ambitious plan to link Helsinki to western Europe by building the grandly named Via Baltica motorway is threatening to wipe out the last European haunts of the lynx, elk and wolf, conservationists say.
		Conservationists accept that Poland's dangerous and overcrowded roads need improvement, but are objecting to the routing of the Via Baltica through Bialystok, a regional capital, because of the barrier the road will create for many migratory species.
		But conservationists complain that the Via Baltica decision violates EU law as there been no assessment of the project's environmental impact nor any public consultation on the route.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/28/wmway28.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/07/28/ixworld.html (531 words)

	THE BALTIC INSTITUTE OF FINLAND - VBN InnoReg - About project
		VBN InnoReg involves 10 partner regions in the Via Baltica Nordica (VBN) zone.
		Via Baltica Nordica is a coherent cooperation and development zone being one of the most dynamically developing areas within the Baltic Sea region.
		VBN InnoReg strengthens the cooperation and network between regions in the VBN zone, which was created during the projects Via Baltica Spatial Development Zone (1998-2000) and Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone (2002-2005).
	www.baltic.org /vbn/about_project (364 words)

	International Business Magazine JURA MOPE SEA. Issue 2004/06. At the Ministry of transport.
		Valerijus Panomariovas, vice-minister of transport and communications of the Republic of Lithuania, was invited by Jan Richard Kurilchik, state secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland, to participate in the meeting discussing implementation of the international transport projects Via Baltica and Rail Baltica.
		Therefore Lithuania is interested that countries participating in this project would use all the potential of the EU support for timely reconstruction and modernization of Via Baltica.
		The amount of cargo carried by Via Baltica keeps increasing each year, therefore according to A.Maciulis, it is necessary to create railway infrastructure, i.e.
	www.jura.lt /contents/article_eng.php?id_year_issue=200406&id_num=9 (1371 words)

	Bankwatch - Recommendations of the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee on Via Baltica
		The arguments of the ecological NGOs and other opponents of the proposed variant of Via Baltica routing are backed by the opinion of the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee.
		In the declarations and recommendations signed during the meeting of the Committee on April 28-29 in Warsaw, one reads: the development of the Via Baltica should be fully consistent with the requirements of EU environmental Directives, including the full Strategic Environmental Assessment.
		The conservation organizations insist on conducting strategic environmental assessments for all the possible variants of the Via Baltica routing, including the Lomza alternative which spears the wildlife of this part of Poland.
	www.bankwatch.org /newsroom/release.shtml?x=163475 (485 words)

	Finland as a Node for Long Distance Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Japan and from the American East Coast to the Far East are routed via Finland.
		Via Baltica (Corridor 1) forms a connection from Finland, the Baltic States and Northwest Russia to central and western Europe.
		Via Baltica is being comprehensively improved as an economical and a transport route.
	www.mintc.fi /www/sivut/english/facilities/sivu4.htm (410 words)

	Council of Europe rules: Assess all options on Via Baltica :: PAN Parks
		Prior to campaigners raising the alarm to the Council of Europe, the routing decision was due to have been made without consideration for Polish and European law, environmental issues, or standard social consultation processes.
		The development of the Via Baltica expressway, which will link Warsaw with Helsinki, may have serious impacts on four sites of EU importance for the conservation of birds, other animals, plants and habitats in Poland, parts of Biebrza National Park.
		Chief among these is that all possible Via Baltica route options need to be assessed via an SEA for the first Pan-European Transport Corridor Budzisko-Warsaw, taking full account of economic, ecological, and social factors.
	www.panparks.org /Newsroom/NewsArchive/2003?&news_id=62&page=details&newsprint=I (354 words)

	Travel Estonia Latvia Lithuania
		Today, you will travel along the Via Baltica, a motorway along Riga Bay from Pärnu to Vilnius, crossing the borders of Estonia and Latvia into Lithuania.
		In August 1989 the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians formed a human chain through all the three countries, and Via Baltica became to symbolize the road to freedom.
		Enjoy lunch on the way close to Bauska in Latvia and arrive in Vilnius in the evening.
	www.scantours.com /7_days_through_via_baltica.htm (617 words)

	19/5/2002 -- EU-funded road set to ruin Poland's wildlife paradise
		Solutions are obviously needed but conservationists are aghast that the proposed Via Baltica could destroy one of Europe's last great wildernesses and that this destruction is funded by EU money.
		Yet the Via Baltica is being promoted as central to the EU's planned transport network for the accession countries (Tina), a crucial link in the dream of uninterrupted motorways from Cork to Helsinki.
		A few years back, the Via Baltica was set to pass, uncontroversially, to the west of the national park.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=11403 (1206 words)

	- CEE Bankwatch Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		CEE Bankwatch Network, along with WWF Poland and the Polish Society for Protection of Birds, is concerned by the possible negative environmental impact of the development of expressways in north-east Poland, in violation of both Polish and EU legislation.
		The most controversial and harmful for nature is the S-8 expressway, which is already under construction as part of the “Via Baltica” corridor.
		Via Baltica is the name of the pan-European transport corridor from Helsinki to Warsaw, and the expressway is a priority for realising the vision of a seamless transportation network stretching across Europe from Portugal to Finland via Poland – the so-called Trans-European Network for Transportation.
	www.bankwatch.org /project.shtml?apc=--153973---1&x=187855&d=o (536 words)

	Realty.lv \| News \| All news
		The Transport Subcommittee of the Lithuanian-Polish Economic Cooperation Council has approved the second Via Baltica Investment Programme for 2001-2006, with EUR 547 million earmarked for its implementation.
		The aim of the second programme is to improve traffic conditions and safety in some stretches of the highway.
		The Via Baltica highway will connect Warsaw with Tallinn via Lithuania and Latvia.
	www.realty.lv /eng/news/?id=47744318022002132433 (115 words)

	CER \| Latvia assesses the risk of Mad Cow Disease
		The committee said in a statement that euro 553 million will be invested into upgrading Via Baltica, the road connecting Warsaw and Helsinki through Tallinn, Riga and Kaunas.
		This is the second stage of the Via Baltica project.
		The traffic on Via Baltica is estimated to grow by 30 to 50 percent in the coming six years.
	www.ce-review.org /01/7/latvianews7.html (1130 words)

	WWF - Council of Europe rules: Assess all options on Via Baltica
		The beautiful Biebrza Marshes would be affected by the Polish government's preferred route for the Via Baltica.
		The Polish government's preferred route for the Via Baltica expressway via Bialystok and protected areas (red) and the alternative route via Lomza (blue), which bypasses the protected areas.
		The development of the Via Baltica expressway, which will link Warsaw with Helsinki, may have serious impacts on four sites of EU importance for the conservation of birds, other animals, plants and habitats in Poland (1).
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=10052 (483 words)

	Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone 2002-2005 - Hämeen liitto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Via Baltica Nordica is a co-operation zone project financed by the BSR Interreg III B programme 2002-2005.
		As the focus of the European Union moves northwards, the substance of the Northern Dimension has to be focused and strengthened.
		The Via Baltica Nordica project has been mentioned in the European Commission's draft for the Northern Dimension Action Plan as an example of how regions are implementing the NDAP.
	www.hameenliitto.fi /index.php?id=612 (173 words)

	WWF - Expressway threatens protected areas in Poland
		The planned Via Baltica expressway would pass through Bialystok, seriously impacting wildlife and creating pollution problems in the Biebrza National Park, Narew National Park, Knyszynska Forest Landscape Park, and Augustowska Forest.
		When approving the Bialystok route for the Via Baltica expressway, the Polish government did not carry out an environmental impact assessment for the whole investment.
		“It is not to late to change the manner in which the Via Baltica route is selected, to make it compliant with Polish and EU regulations on environmental impact assessment and public participation in decision making,” points out Marta Majka Wiśniewska, Freshwater Policy Officer at WWF Poland.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=7005 (580 words)

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		Via Baltica Cooperation of Via Baltica road development programme is coordinated by the Monitoring Committee, which consist of the representatives from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the European Commission.
		Rail Baltica It is to be highlighted that Rail Baltica contributes to the development of a Pan-Baltic intermodal transport system and Pan-European Transport Network.
		Rail Baltica will support the wider EU goals of parity of access to services and infrastructure of EU Member States and development of sustainable modes of transportation, improved balance and interoperability between different means of transportation and the establishment of links between EU territories.
	web-static.vm.ee /static/failid/035/Transpordi_Vanemametnike_Komitee_raport.doc (4726 words)

	21/1/2003 -- WWF says Polish National Development Plan threatens wildlife
		An alternative route via the city of Lomza, supported by both WWF and OTOP, would by-pass all four sites, and would also be 30km shorter than the Bialystok route.
		The section of Via Baltica between Warsaw and the border crossing in Budzisko is most controversial.
		There are two alternative routes for this section of the motorway: the first one via Lomza and the second one via Bialystok.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=19561 (828 words)

	Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone 2002
		The development of the accessibility to the railway traffic in Finland is a part of the Via Baltica Nordica Development Zone -project and supports the sustainable development of traffic and environment within the whole zone.
		In connection with Via Baltica Nordica –project different solutions are researched, planned and tested concerning different themes from land use planning to information system in order to facilitate and improve the possibilities to use railway traffic.
		The regional structure of the commuter train traffic area will be researched and planned in a way where the train is the most central part of the traffic system and the most important traffic mode between the centres of the Zone.
	www.prorautatie.net /via_baltica_nordica_development_.htm (976 words)

	Press release 21/06/2005
		Within the pan-European transport corridor No I, running from Helsinki, through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to Warsaw, different modes of transport are combined, for the corridor includes both road transport (the so called "Via Baltica") and rail (the so-called Rail Baltica).
		Organise adequate long-tern monitoring of the effects of the modernised express road and bypasses in view of both ecological and socio-economic consequences (also secondary effects) and support supplementary mitigation measures to be taken in the future when and where needed (such as speed limits);
		At this point, it should be stressed that the importance of the matter and its urgency are fully understood by the leadership of the Ministry of Infrastructure; what surprises is the absence of clear actions on the part of the road sector in the scope of the implementation of Recommendation 108 (2203).
	www.mos.gov.pl /mos/news/press_releases/2005.06.21.html (1779 words)

	International Business Magazine JURA MOPE SEA. Issue 2004/01. At the ministry of transport.
		The Transit Committee at the government of Lithuania will be offered for consideration the possibility of laying the European standard railway line Rail Baltica via Kaunas.
		Such decision was adopted at the meeting of the Ministry of Transport and Communications and representatives of Kaunas and Marijampole municipalities.
		As it is known, the first stage of building the European standard railway Rail Baltica to be finished by 2010 provides for construction of the railway section from the Polish-Lithuanian border to Kaunas.
	www.jura.lt /contents/article_eng.php?id_year_issue=200401&id_num=5 (786 words)

	Latvian State Roads -> Route E 67 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Route E 67 Via Baltica, road A1 Riga (Baltezers) - Estonian border (Ainaži) section from km 6.3 to km 12.6 (Ādaži).
		Widening of present roadway and asphalt concrete surfacing and increasing of road bearing capacity; improvement of traffic safety; reconstruction of Ķekava bridge.
		Determine the construction feasibility of a double route for Brīvības street (which is the continuation of Baltezers bypass, Alternative V alignment according to construction plans accepted in public hearing), in section from Jaunciema Avenue (Bukulti) to Vairoga street in the Riga city.
	www.lad.lv /en/?i=107 (1168 words)

	Hotel Audenis, ~other, Lithuania at LithuanianHotels.com
		Birstonas is a well–known health resort founded in the center of south Lithuania not far from international highway “Via Baltica” in the territory of Nemunas windings regional park.
		This is indeed one the most beautiful places in Lithuania getting famous for charming area, plenty of mineral springs, fresh air without any industrial pollution.
		Todays Birštonas is a well–known health resort founded in the center of south Lithuania not far from international auto – highway “Via Baltica” in the territory of Nemunas windings regional park.
	www.lithuanianhotels.com /hotels/Audenis (331 words)

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