In the fall 2015 Lithuania opened a 123-kilometer section of European-standard gauge railway on the route of the Rail Baltic from Kaunas to the Lithuanian border that only allows for speeds of up to 120 kilometers per hour, which runs counter to the objective of Rail Baltic, LETA/Postimees/BNS said.

In videos, showing the railway village roads can be seen intersecting with the tracks, there are no overpasses or protective fences. Lithuania has promised to search for possibilities to increase the speeds enabled by the railway section, Postimees said.

The European Commission has said that to get further funding for the section of the railway Lithuania must come up with a concrete plan how the existing section can be made straighter during the next ten years or a new section built enabling speeds of up to 240 kilometers per hour.