Nearly PLN 1 billion investment to transportation infrastructure in Katowice

The Operational Program of Infrastructure and Environment will invest an additional PLN 885 million in modernizing the tram infrastructure in the Katowice conurbation, an area covering several hundred square kilometers and several cities, according to a release from the region’s development agency. The company Silesian Trams will construct and repair almost 150 kilometers of tracks, the release noted. The project covers the time period from 2014 through to 2020. The first stage of the project, already completed, involved work in Chorzow, Bytom and Świętochłowice. Future work, beginning in 2017, involves projects in Sosnowiec Zagórze, Bytom, Zabrze and Katowice.