Czech motorway building to be accelerated in 2017

The Czech government is to speed up motorway building in 2017, with 140km of new roads planned. The announcement comes as the country is looking at a new laws designed to streamline infrastructure tendering and to improve construction management, according to CIJ – Construction and Investment Journal. Projects can sometimes take as long as 12 years to get off the ground, the journal reported. Skanska boss Michal Jurka, the head of Skanska in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since September, said p
December 12, 2016 Read time: 1 min
The Czech government is to speed up motorway building in 2017, with 140km of new roads planned.

The announcement comes as the country is looking at a new laws designed to streamline infrastructure tendering and to improve construction management, according to CIJ – Construction and Investment Journal.

Projects can sometimes take as long as 12 years to get off the ground, the journal reported.  2296 Skanska boss

Michal Jurka, the head of Skanska in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since September, said projects planned for 2017 realistically will start in 2018 or 2019. Top priorities for the ministry remain completion of the Prague ring road and the D 35 motorway.

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