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Ministry of Infrastructure reassesses railway projects for more effective PNRR subsidies

The Polish Ministry of Infrastructure has reviewed the country's planned railway projects in order to ensure effective funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan PNRR. As a result, it was decided to change the management of some of the funds earmarked for the projects. The funds will be allocated to infrastructure operator PKP PLK, which is responsible for the development and implementation of the projects. The change in the allocation of funding for part of the investments concerns only ineffective tasks, the implementation of which could lead to unjustified costs. This concerns tasks that could, for example, lead to the consolidation of the current, unfavourable track layout. According to the Ministry of Transport, some investments cannot be stopped due to their high level of progress. An example of this is the Patrzyków railway station on the Warsaw – Poznan line, where 4,000 trains stopped and only 23 people use it. PKP PLK withdrew from some contracts due to the decision to shift the funding granted to other projects.