Hit the Road

When all the finances earmarked this year for constructing and upgrading Poland's road infrastructure is taken into account, this section of the market is worth around 8 billion zlotys. World Bank loans alone are to be used to repair 705 kilometres of roads at a cost of 455 million zlotys. The General Management of National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) intends to upgrade a total of 1,500 kilometres of roads for 1.5 billion zlotys, a sum which will come from The World Bank and also the European Investment Bank, European Union funds and the national budget. It is, however, the tender for the next phase of the A2 motorway which is exciting all the construction company officials that we talked to. Highway to heaven At the end of April the GDDKiA's tender committee opened the envelopes that had been submitted by consortiums competing to construct five sections of motorway from Konin to Stryków, a total of 103.5 kilometres. 31 offers had been pre