Poland pushes ahead with major new roads programme

The Polish government will spend around US$28.3 billion over the next eight years in one on the country’s largest new-road investment programmes. Nearly 4,000km of motorways and dual carriageways will be constructed as well as 50 ring roads around urban centres. More than 1,000 sections of roads deemed dangerous will be rebuilt, according to a report in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Prawna. The announcement comes after the Poland’s road and motorways authority GDDKiA said in June that it plans to awa
September 11, 2015 Read time: 1 min
The Polish government will spend around US$28.3 billion over the next eight years in one on the country’s largest new-road investment programmes.

Nearly 4,000km of motorways and dual carriageways will be constructed as well as 50 ring roads around urban centres.

More than 1,000 sections of roads deemed dangerous will be rebuilt, according to a report in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Prawna.

The announcement comes after the Poland’s road and motorways authority 1361 GDDKiA said in June that it plans to award a series of maintenance contracts worth in total €482.23 million to private operators up to the end of 2017.

The contracts will be for an average of five years. More than 1,200km of roads and motorways are maintained by private operators.
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