Well, I'm guessing some local good has come out of this Rīga European Capital of Culture thing that has been bestowed upon that fair city for 2014 I suppose since if you visit Rīga it's likely that if you have the time you will take a train to at least Majori in order to experience some of the famous Jūrmala beach. Which means you will pass by Babīte, at least twice. I certainly have no other explanation for the sudden works being lavished on my local train station as it has pretty much been an eye sore for the eight years I have lived in the area. Maybe someone complained!? (tears of laughter and stomach cramps) The station itself was painted once (maybe twice?) in all that time as I recall but the tool shed and more importantly the pee place have never been done to my recollection and boy did it show! Behold;
the pee place before...
... and after!
The tool shed was even worse if you can imagine!
And of course...
...the station itself. Currently under external remont.
However past experience shows that it won't take long for the tags to show up, :(
Babīte is the first station on the Tukums line outside of Rīga municipality, Imanta being the last. It's a quiet little village which is why we like it here and only 18 minutes to the city with an Elvi and even a nice bar/restaurant and two (2) bus stops, but there are no police and it sometimes gets a little hairy. Probably why so many crooked businessmen have property in the area (shhhh!). Still, it's not the worst station around as I have documented previously but that pee place should be blown up! It's so disgusting that men mostly just duck behind a tree and woe betide the desperate women who enter therein. Just think, "sticky shoes." Yuck. Unfortunately if they improved it too much some bum would probably take up residence and burn it to ground with a camp fire meant to warm up a stolen can of hobo beans.
Still, I like it here and we won't be moving anywhere else in Latvia. When we do decide to decamp Babīte it's straight to Italy!
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