No roads for 2012

7th August 2010

Plans to improve infrastructure are still behind schedule

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Ambitious plans to lay hundreds of kilometres of tarmac in time for the 2012 European football championship look set to fall well short of expectations.

This year the General Directorate for National Roads and Highways, the body responsible for Poland’s road network, said that it had earmarked some PLN 27.6 bln for the construction of new motorways, expressways and ring roads, but in the first half of the year it had only spent PLN 4.9 bln. Estimates for total expenditure in 2010 come in at PLN 20.5 bln.

Delays in getting things done now mean that the road construction plan, implemented in 2007, has started to fall rapidly behind schedule.

The programme, which foresaw about 1,000 ...

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