A-1 to serve as Poland's gateway to the sea

04.08.2005

In the wake of many years' effort - on 29 July 2005, in Goszyn near Tczew, the construction work commenced of the A-1 Motorway. As yet, the work covers the first 90-kilometer section from Gdansk to the location called Nowe Marzy, which is due to completion by December 2008. However, already this year, the work is to get under way on another section: Nowe Marzy - Torun. This stretch of the road is due to completion at the turn of 2009 and 2010. In turn, the section of the A-1 Motorway providing a link to Cieszyn, in line with the current arrangements, will have been accomplished in 2013.

The ceremony marking the launch of the motorway construction was attended not only by officials representing the authority of Gdansk and the Pomeranian Region and prominent business leaders active in the region, but the Minister of Finance Miroslaw Gronicki and Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Jan Ryszard Kurylczyk alike. It was Jan Ryszard Kurylczyk who expressed the belief common not only across the business milieu, that the motorway remains of pivotal importance to the Pomeranian Region, as well as to the whole of Poland. He recognized the motorway coming into being as raison d'état of Poland. In particular, he emphasized the role of the motorway in terms of improvement in the road access from Poland's hinterland to the Port of Gdansk that, owing to the motorway, will gain a superb road connection to Southern Europe. Corridor No 6, of which the Port of Gdansk comprises a significant link, will cease to be merely a demand and will become one of the major sections of the European transportation network boosting the economic growth all along its length.