Railway in Poland: EUR 1.24 billion for railways in the 2007 budget project

The project of Poland's budget for 2007 forsees support for railways in 2007 will sum up to PLN 4.83 billion PLN (EUR 1.24 billion), including PLN 967m (EUR 2498m) from the EU.

In detail:

The state budget will refund the reduced ticket prices with PLN 371m (99,3 % in comparison to the 2006 budget)

Also:

Budget support for interregional and international services PLN 240m (96 %)

Budget support for Polish national infrastructure manager PKP PLK on track maintenance and repairs PLN 380m (146,2 %)

Budget support for PKP PLK for investment projects PLN 591m (116.9%). This amount includes support for EU cofinanced project of PLN 203m

The sum of PLN 591m includes:
-two long term investments (sections modernisation of the E59 line Wroclaw - Poznan).
-modernizations sections of E20 line
-modernizations of Poznan railway junction on E20 line
-repairs and modernizations on sections of E30 and C-E30 lines
-modernization on sections of lines E65, 401 (Szczecin Dabie-Swinoujscie), 71 (Rzeszow-Warszawa),
Poprawa stanu infrastruktury kolejowej w Polsce – 39.995 tyś zł.
- modernization of Warsaw-Łodz line
-removing bottlenecks in freight corridors in Silesia region
-modernization of sections of C-E59 line
-modernization of the line 8, section Warszawa Zachodnia station - Warszawa Okecie airopert.


State support for PKP Cargo on cofinancing investment projects: building of intermodal terminal Poznan-Franowo and modernizarion of Malaszewicze border terminal. Sum - PLN 6.9m
Source: railway-market.pl