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We know the cost of the 100 bypass construction program

The cost of implementing 100 beltways was estimated at nearly PLN 28 billion, the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways informed on Friday.

As we read in the communiqué, in the years 2020-2030, as part of the government program, 100 bypasses will be built in Poland. It will be complemented by the implementation of the National Road Construction Program for 2014-2023 (with a perspective until 2025).

It was pointed out that among the investments recorded in the PBDK there are expressways as well as highways, which, in addition to transit functions, also act as ring roads. This is the case with the already functioning Radom beltway on the S7, Częstochowa on the A1, Bydgoszcz on the S5, Ryki or Kołbiela on the S17, Łódź along the S14, or sections of S2 in Warsaw supplementing the beltway of the capital. Thanks to the construction of the S61, the Łomża bypass will be built, the S19 will bypass Białystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Kraśnik and Janów Lubelski, the Chełm bypass will be built on S12, the Zamość bypass will be built on S17 and the Tomaszów Lubelski bypass will currently be built.

It was reminded that new routes with new sections bypassing towns are being prepared. This will be the way along S10 and S11, which, although not implemented as “bypasses”, after being built, will allow you to bypass dozens of localities. Which – as noted – will increase not only the comfort and safety of drivers, but also city dwellers.

It has been written that the construction program for 100 beltways for 2020-2030 includes investments outside the motorway and expressway network, but some of these investments will facilitate direct access to expressways. Above all, however, they will facilitate travel on national roads. For example, the construction of eight beltways is planned on the route of national road No. 22 between Gorzów Wielkopolski and Starogard Gdański. Six beltways are planned for DK12 between Głogów and Piotrków Trybunalski. Five bypasses will be built on DK63 between Pisz and Radzyń Podlaski and on DK74 between Janów Lubelski and Zamość, “we read.

GDDKiA pointed out that seven of the eleven beltways on the PBDK reserve list 2014-2023 were moved to the 100 bypass construction program. These are road bypasses Głogów (DK12), Strzelce Krajeński (DK22), Starogard Gdański (DK28), Krosno Odrzańskie (DK29), Kostrzyn nad Odrą (DK31), Wąchocka (DK42) and Ostrołęka (DK61). “Adding the abovementioned beltways to the new Program guarantees simultaneous financing of these investments” – it was written. It was also indicated that the bypass of the Tri-City Metropolis on the S6, which was planned to be implemented in the formula of public-private partnership, due to an increase of PLN 21 billion in the limit for the implementation of PBDK 2014-2023, will be built by the state, not a private investor.

The cost of implementing 100 beltways – as we read – has been estimated at nearly PLN 28 billion. The construction will be financed from the National Road Fund run by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. KFD receives funds from a fuel surcharge, loans and borrowings, mainly from international financial institutions and bonds. The KFD account is also funded by receipts from the Electronic Toll Collection System. An important source of revenue for the KFD will also be EU funds from operational programs under the 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 perspectives.

It was pointed out that some tenders had already been announced, while contracts with contractors of fourteen beltways with a total length of over 111 km were to be signed next year.

It was pointed out that after the PBDK 2014-2023 update in June 2020 and increasing the expenditure limit to PLN 163.9 billion, the Program is expected to end with the construction of a total of 3767.9 km of roads.

It was reminded that the Sanok (DK28) and Węgorzyn (DK10) beltway was put into operation this year, and the commissioning of the Dąbrowa Tarnowska beltway (DK73) is planned for the summer. There will also be sections of expressways constituting the ring roads of: Wałcza, Kobylanki, Morzyczyn and Zieleniewa on the S10, Kołbiela on the S17 and the section S5 Bydgoszcz Opławiec – Bydgoszcz Błonie, which will complete the Bydgoszcz bypass.

It has been added that the following ring roads are being implemented: Kępno and Olesno on the S11, Tomaszów Lubelski on the S17, Łańcut (DK94), Iłża (DK9), Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (DK25), Kędzierzyn-Koźle (DK40), Praszka (DK45), Niemodlin ( DK46), III stage in Legionowo (DK61), Morawica and Wola Morawiecka (DK73), Stalowa Wola and Nisko (DK77) and Poręba i Zawiercia (DK78). As part of the S14 construction, the western bypass of Łódź is being built. 14 ring roads are under preparation, with a total length of over 110 km, for which funds for implementation are provided. These are beltways, among others Chełma (S12), Radomska (DK42), Kołbieli (DK50), Zator (DK28), Łochowa (DK62) and Opatów (S74).

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