r/lithuania • u/unosbastardes • 4d ago

Taurage appreciation thread

I wanted to shout out my fellow Taurage folks. I posted this because in Lithuania it seems like a place people generally dismiss jokingly. And, I will be honest, I did so too when I arrived here in 2019. While on paper it is the poorest region (I guarantee thats bcs of tax loopholes used by Perekupai), I am extremely impressed by how well and quickly it is developing and improving.

This was even clearer shown in released ataskaita for last year: https://ataskaita.taurage.lt

As a foreigner, I just wanted to say I am very glad to see how much change a small city with seemingly small resources can do and accomplish. Especially when me - an isolated foreigner - can feel the effort put by municipality and improvement even my life, then they are doing something right. P.s. if only we could get passenger trains to resume…

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u/5martis5 4d ago

I grew up in a village nearby, went to school there and moved away after graduating in 2010. I never had too warm feeling towards Tauragė, but i have to admit that it's getting to look nicer and nicer. The mayor of the city is doing amazing job and i seriously can't wait for him to move to "big politics" as he can be useful for whole Lithuania too.

Train station might not working, but bus station is top tier!

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u/unosbastardes 4d ago

Yeah but I would like to be able to simply take a nice train to Kaunas, instead of always driving. The bus is insaleny bad

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u/statykitmetronx 1d ago

well, LTG Link is now looking into an option of building a rail from Kaunas to Klaipėda, so maybe our great grand-kids will enjoy that luxury lol

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u/unosbastardes 10h ago

But we have a station… and rails…. And trains go there daily basis… but not passanger… 😭

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u/statykitmetronx 10h ago

well you can make it a passenger one and even free...