EU funds for Warsaw metro
InfrastructureRepresentatives of the Centre for EU Transport Projects (CEUTP) and the city of Warsaw have signed an agreement to finance the construction of another six stations along the city’s second metro line as part of the Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment 2014-2020. The project involves the extension of the second metro line by app. six kilometres. Three new stations – Szwedzka, Targówek and Trocka – are to be added to the north-eastern stretch of the line in Warsaw’s Praga Północ and Targówek districts, and another three – Płocka, Młynów and Księcia Janusza – are to be added to the western stretch in the city’s Wola district. The project, which is scheduled for completion in 2019, will also include the construction of additional metro infrastructure as well as the purchase of 13 metro trains. Construction work on the new stations in the north-east has been underway for several months, whereas work on the new western stations, for which the building permit has just been issued, is to be launched soon. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development Mateusz Morawiecki, who was present at the signing of the agreement, pointed out that the second metro line project began more than ten years ago while Lech Kaczyński was the mayor of Warsaw. Mateusz Morawiecki called the metro construction a strategic investment that would help make Warsaw the economic centre of Central and Eastern Europe. “For us, the construction of the metro means investing money, not spending money,” he said. Deputy Warsaw Mayor Renata Kaznowska stressed that the construction of the second metro line had already had a very positive impact on the development of the Praga Północ and Wola districts. “The building we are in [the agreement was signed in the CEUTP offices in the Warsaw Spire complex] is the best evidence for this,” she said. Maciej Fijałkowski, the director of the Office of European Funds and Economic Development for the City of Warsaw, revealed that, apart from the further extension of the second metro line, the largest infrastructural investments planned in Warsaw over the next few years would include the construction of a new tram line connecting the city’s Ochota and Wilanów districts, and the purchase of electric buses.
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