Radical routes to highway projects

The authorities in Poland and Serbia are using innovative approaches to funding highway investments. The Polish Government is considering reallocating savings made on railway tenders to road projects. The Polish Infrastructure Department hopes to transfer some €311 million from its railway programme to road projects instead. This will help deal with the shortfall for highway improvements.
March 5, 2012 Read time: 1 min
The authorities in Poland and Serbia are using innovative approaches to funding highway investments. The Polish Government is considering reallocating savings made on railway tenders to road projects. The Polish Infrastructure Department hopes to transfer some €311 million from its railway programme to road projects instead. This will help deal with the shortfall for highway improvements. Meanwhile in Serbia, the Ministry of Infrastructure plans to use €900 million being generated by the sale of the national telecoms operator 3643 Telekom Srbije (TS) for road works. The sum would be used to fund the construction of key highway projects including works from Belgrade to Krusevac via Cacak and Kraljevo, and from Novi Sad to Loznica via Ruma and Sabac.

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