Poland increases infrastructure spend

A healthy €865.5 million is being spent on infrastructure projects in Polish capital Warsaw in 2011.
February 21, 2012 Read time: 1 min
A healthy €865.5 million is being spent on infrastructure projects in Polish capital Warsaw in 2011. Of this, a substantial portion will be invested in works to the Trasa Polnocna road.
Meanwhile the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure has said that the €102 million saved in the tender for the construction of a ring road in Augustow in Podlaskie will be reinvested in other road construction projects in the region.
Work is continuing on two sections of the S8 link between Bialystok and Warsaw.

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