Speaking during a press conference after a meeting of his Cabinet, he said on Tuesday that more funds would be spent from public coffers to extend Expressway S6 in the north of the country parallel to the Baltic coast and to build Expressway S19 in Poland’s east.
Morawiecki added that increased funding would make it possible to construct the Tri-City Beltway, a road going around the Baltic cities of Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia, and to build Expressway S10 to connect the north-central cities of Toruń and Bydgoszcz.
He also listed projects such as Expressway S7 north of Warsaw, Expressways S5 and S8 in the southwestern Lower Silesia region, and a new ring road for the southern city of Kraków.
When it met on Tuesday, the Polish government approved plans to inject an additional PLN 21 billion (EUR 4.7 billion, USD 5.3 billion) into its PLN 142.2 billion National Road Construction Programme, state news agency PAP reported.
Morawiecki told reporters that the additional funds would come from efforts to tighten up the country’s tax system.
Morawiecki's Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk said at the end of last week that Poland was moving full steam ahead with road building projects despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking during a visit to a construction site in the east of the country, Adamczyk said that more than 2,400 projects were in progress throughout the country to build and modernise roads, helping save some 1.5 million jobs amid the COVID-19 crisis.
(gs/pk)
Source: PAP