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The money will go to the companies, but then
The Ministry of Infrastructure explains that “The change in the allocation of funding for some railway investments applies only to ineffective tasks, the implementation of which could result in unjustified costs in the absence of the expected effects.. These are tasks whose implementation may lead, for example, to the consolidation of the current unfavorable road system, to the need to introduce new changes in the investment area, to collisions with other planned activities or to the creation of a bottleneck after the completion of the task, the removal of which would result in a significant increase in investment costs. ”
Piotr Malepszak, Deputy Minister for Infrastructure, spoke. – The Ministry of Infrastructure places and will place great emphasis on the effective investment of public funds, generating the greatest possible effect for passengers and transporters. and competitiveness of the entire rail transport sector – emphasized the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure
The ministry assures that “the PKP PLK was obliged to allocate about PLN 500 million, which will be used to expand the scope of other tasks or to implement new projects that bring greater benefits and better results for improving travel comfort and the development of railway transport”.
The Ministry assures us that “PKP PLK and the EU Transport Project Centre have already started the procedure for attaching co-financing agreements with the KPO. PKP PLK plans to announce selected procedures aimed at using KPO funds in the fourth quarter of 2024. The total amount of EU support provided by the KPO to the railways is over PLN 18 billion.