PLN 271 mln EU subsidy for rail and road projects in Lower Silesia

More than PLN 271 million EU funding will be allocated for the purchase of 11 railway depots by Koleje Dolnośląskie and construction of the Kłodzko beltway. The total value of both of these infrastructure projects is over PLN 450 million. On Monday in Wrocław, two agreements were signed for co-financing of transport projects implemented by Koleje Dolnośląskie and the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways. "The railway project includes the purchase of 11 railway depots by Koleje Dolnośląskie, including five electric units and six combustion units," Deputy Minister of Investment and Development Witold Słowik said on Monday during a press conference in Wrocław. The value of this project is over PLN 209 million, of which EU funding is over PLN 85 million. New trains are to hit the Lower Silesian tracks by 2021. The deputy minister informed that the contract signed on Monday in Wrocław is one of the series of contracts for financing railway rolling stock. "In total, 11 projects have received funding for the purchase or modernization of rolling stock across the country, the value of all these projects is PLN 4 billion, including co-financing from the Operational Program Infrastructure and Environment is over PLN 1.6 billion," said the minister. The second agreement signed on Monday in Wroclaw regarding co-financing the construction of the Kłodzko beltway. The value of this project is over PLN 244 million, and co-financing from EU funds is over PLN 186 million. The ring road will be over 9 km long, and as part of this investment, a section of national road No. 33 will be renovated over two km. The route is to be commissioned at the turn of May and June this year.