Shareholder is Not Helping to Solve Situation At Rigas Satiksme Matiss

RIGA, March 5 (LETA) Anrijs Mariss, the acting head of Rigas Satiksme municipal public transport company, is stepping from from the office because the Riga City Council is not helping in solving the company's problems.

Matiss told LETA that there is support from the local government needed in revising the prime costs of fares, the routes of Rigas Satiksme and Rigas Mikroautobusu Satiksme (RMS) mini bus service and other practical issues.

"Many issues are not for Rigas Satiksme to decide," said Matiss. He also said that the problems uncovered by auditors should be tackled, but the shareholder threw back the auditors' report and said that we should work on proposals on our own. "We have no support in reducing costs, revising contracts, and these are issues the company may not solve by itself. The shareholder also should enforce loss from former border," said Matiss.

Matiss said that Rigas Satiksme is a very good company and its problems can be solved by "revising all matters that have been done wrong in the past years," but it can be done only hand in hand with the local government.

Last week Riga Mayor Nils Usakovs (Harmony) said that the Riga City Council will allocate EUR 130 million in subsidies to Rigas Satiksme...