Poland carries out over EUR 11 bln in road investments

Poland's national road authority, the GDDKiA, is currently conducting road investments to the tune of PLN 54 billion (EUR 11.46 billion), the GDDKiA announced in a Monday press release.
The GDDKiA added that the length of roadways it is developing comes to a total of 1,443.5 kilometres.
"Ninety-nine tasks of the government's National Road Building Programme for the years 2014-2023 are currently being carried out to a length of 1,327.9 km and a value of PLN 52 billion (EUR 11.04 billion)," the GDDKiA wrote. "At this stage are also 15 ring roads from a programme to build 100 ring roads for the years 2020-2030, to a combined length of 115.6 km and a value of PLN 2 billion (EUR 420 million)."
The road authority also reported that this year alone it had signed 11 contracts for work on 120 km of roads to a value of almost PLN 4.8 billion (EUR 1.02 billion).
In addition, 18 projects from the 2014-2023 road-building programme to a combined length of 244 km are at the tendering stage and a further 80 projects from the programme are under preparation to a length of 1,803.6 km, as well as 85 ring roads from the 202-2030 programme to a length of 744 km, the GDDKiA reported.