More investment means new highways for drivers in 2005

This speeding up of investments is due to an increase in funding projections for the General Directorate of Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) for 2005, but that plan has to be accepted by the government. There is zł.2.4 billion earmarked for road construction in next year's state budget and an additional zł.1.2 billion which will come from the State Road Fund (KFD), which collects taxes paid on gas. Should this amount not be enough, the government will probably allow GDDKiA to obtain bank loans of zł.1.2 billion. GDDKiA has also devised a plan to make use of its own budget. "We have planned to spend around zł.7 billion. About zł.1.7 billion will be spent on highway construction, zł.800 million will go to construction of minor roads and zł.600 million to road modernization," said a GDDKiA representative. (Puls Biznesu, p. 11) D.W.