Train lines unsafe due to poor infastructure says government report

Nearly 40% of domestic railway track requires renovation, as its condition t hreatens passenger safety with just two percent reaching EU standards accord ing to a Supreme Board of Inspection report. The situation is the result of reduced spending on infrastructural changes which lowered the number of new rails by 65% over the last decade. Huge losses were also caused by thefts, t he most spectacular being on the Podleze-Niepolomice line, where 4.8 kilomet ers of overhead cabling was stolen. Polish State Railways (PKP) admit that i nfrastructure is in such poor shape that a significant speed reduction is of ten required. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 22) M.K