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Last week Poland’s transport minister, Jerzy Polaczek, opened the 92 km long Wroclaw-Krzywa section of the A4 motorway. Last week Poland’s transport minister, Jerzy Polaczek, opened the 92 km long Wroclaw-Krzywa section of the A4 motorway.
The newly-completed road will allow drivers to make the 381 km journey between Krakow and Krzywa by motorway. The total cost of the project amounted to €162.7m, €122m of which came from the European Union Cohesion Fund. The European Investment Bank also contributed funds.
Intensive preparations are currently underway for the remaining sections of the A4 motorway to ensure that the entire route between Germany and Rzeszow is ready by 2013.
The current state of progress on different sections of the motorway is as follows:
· Zgorzelec-Krzyzowa: tender in progress; to be completed in 2007-2008; cost: €307m; source of financing: EU Cohesion Fund
· Krakow-Szarow: tender underway; to be completed in 2007-2008; cost: PLN 450m; source of financing: National Road Fund
· Szarow-Tarnow: construction project under preparation; to be completed in 2009-2011
· Tarnow-Rzeszow: planning and design work; to be completed in 2011-2013.
The opened stretch of the A4 comprises the final section of the motorway to be opened this year, and in 2007 only the section between Szczecin and the German border – a mere 7 km in length – will be ready. |