Increased costs hold up construction of Siekierkowski bridge by a year

The Siekierkowski Bridge (Trasa Siekierkowska - TS) construction will be delayed by a year and should now be completed in 2005, due to a zl. 100 million increase in costs. The government of Warsaw's central district (gmina Centrum) has passed a detailed plan of financing the TS construction for the years 2002-2005. Over this period it will spend zl. 575 million on the project and plans to partially finance the investment through bank loans. City officials have declared financial support for the construction work and will spend zl. 295.6 million between 2003 and 2005. The total expenditures for the Siekierkowski Bridge between 2002 and 2005 will amount to over zl. 1 billion. There are currently two contractors bidding for further phases of the investment - the connections between TS and existing routes. According to representatives of ZBM Inwestor Zastepczy, the company supervising the TS construction, the technical specifications of connections with Trakt Lubelski and ul. Beethoven are ready. "These works can commence over the next few weeks. We hope that the connections with Trakt Lubelski will be complete within 26 months," said general director of TS construction works Henryk Kuc. (Puls Biznesu, p. 11) M.M.