Laying down the track
Metro Warszawskie has announced a competition for the design of the central section of the second metro line, which will run between the Daszyński Roundabout (Rondo Daszyńskiego) and Wileński Railway Station. The winner of the competition will be invited to initiate negotiations for a contract for general coordination of the project. The maximum investment into the project from the general coordinator is expected to amount to zł.15.9 million.
"We are planning to choose the general contractor at the beginning of 2008 the latest, so construction could start in late spring 2008. Thus we would have the opening of the central section of the second line of the Metro before Euro 2012," says Żurawski.
The Railway Transport Authority has met with the Deputy Mayor of Warsaw to discuss a possible change of the location of the Rondo ONZ station. The line could link ul. więtokrzyska with Rondo Daszyńskiego and the bus station between the Złote Tarasy shopping center with the Central Railway Station.
MW's Żurawski says the central section of the second line cannot be shifted. "Although construction has yet to be launched, we started the investment in 2002 and any changes to the location of the line would delay construction by two or three years. We wouldn't be able to make it in time for Euro 2012," says Żurawski.
Jarosław Kiepura, director at the Railway Transport Authority, counters, "There is a high probability that there is room for change and the study by the Railway Scientific and Technical Centre (CNTK) will evaluate that possibility."
