Mateusz Morawiecki made the announcement at the opening of a new stretch of the S61 road, part of the international Via Baltica route, in the village of Piątnica Poduchowna, in Poland's northeastern Podlaskie province, on Monday.
"Each kilometre of new road represents additional capacity to attract entrepreneurs and spur regional growth," Morawiecki told reporters during the ceremony.
He said new road projects were "the backbone of development" and provided "extra opportunities" for local areas.
He mentioned plans to "very quickly complete" the country's north-south A1 motorway and extend its A2 and A18 highways.
Moreover, the S61 expressway will be extended to reach Poland's eastern border with Lithuania, he said.
Also, the government will continue to increase funding for county and municipal roads, Morawiecki promised.
He added that the new programme would "create excellent prospects for regional development" and be over 80 percent financed from national coffers.
He also told reporters that the programme would enable domestic contractors to "learn to build ever more complex and advanced engineering structures."
Under a newly released government document, the proposed road-building programme seeks to "complete the national network of motorways and expressways" as well as accelerate the building of "modern and safe" local roads "so that the economy can grow and citizens enjoy a better standard of living," state news agency PAP reported.
As part of the programme, over PLN 291 billion will be spent on roads by 2030, including PLN 186.8 billion on extending the national road network by 2,500 km and PLN 104.8 billion on pre-planned road projects with a combined length of more than 3,700 km, according to the new government document, as cited by the PAP news agency.
Via Baltica is a new international transport corridor that would link the Baltic states with Western Europe.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP