General Directorate for National Roads and Highways

First no-toll motorway stretches will cost EUR 44 mln, PM says

Mateusz Morawiecki, visiting a seniors' club in southeastern Poland on Saturday, said that from July 1 two first sections of motorways managed by the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways will be exempted from tolls. Piotr Polak/PAP

Freeing the first stretches of Poland's state-owned motorways from toll under a planned new law will cost around PLN 200 million (EUR 44 mln), Poland's prime minister said on Saturday.

Gigantic footbridge for the disabled is dubbed ‘Donkey Kong obstacle’ as row breaks out over its fitness for purpose

Opened on April 29th, the gigantic 126-metre-long yellow-green labyrinthine structure over a busy motorway is made up of six zig-zagging ramps with sharp 180 degree bends.

Road workers dig up remnants of downed WWII Soviet aircraft

The parts belong to an Ilyushin Il-2, a ground-attack aircraft that was one of the mainstays of the Soviet Air Force.

Ready, steady, dig: workers get burrowing on record-breaking tunnel down south

Once completed the tunnel near the Czech border will be the longest in Poland.

EU grants almost EUR 280 mln for Polish transport investment

Almost PLN 1.2 billion (EUR 280 million) is to be earmarked from EU funds for the modernisation and building of 55 railway stations and construction of the Bolków (southwestern Poland) bypass. EIght contracts were signed in the matter on Tuesday.

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