Smoother ride ahead as more money is allocated for road improvements

The government has announced plans to spend euro 612 million improving roads by 2006. The European Union (EU) fund ISPA and State Treasury (MSP) will fund the improvements. Priority is to be given to four of the nine major roads connecting Poland with (EU) countries. Two-hundred-and-forty-eight kilometers of highways and 130 kilometers of express roads will be improved to meet EU standards. By 2006, 873 kilometers of normal roads on international routes will also be adapted to EU standards. (Rzeczpospolita, page A1, B2) M.M.