Infrastructure and transport development plans in the Polish – Slovak relations

Polish – Slovak Discussion ForumWarsaw, 18 December 2013

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International/European aspects of Polish – Slovak cooperation – the process of the revision of TEN-T network

Polish cross-border investment plans

MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTUREAND DEVELOPMENT

Polish – Slovak transport connections in TEN-T (3)

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Polish – Slovak transport connections in TEN-T – results of our cooperation

Polish – Slovak transport connections in TEN-T

I. TEN-T – CORE NETWORK„The Baltic – Adriatic Corridor”

1. rail line No. 139, 129, section: (Katowice) – Bielsko-Biała – Zwardoń (also fright corridor No. 5);2. expressway No. S-69, section: Bielsko-Biała – Zwardoń

These cross-border sections are on the list of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) projects to be financed within the perspective 2014-2020

II. TEN – T COMPREHENSIVE NETWORK

1. Road route No. S-7 (E-77), section: Kraków – Chyżne2. Rail route No. 96, section: - Kraków – Podłęże – Piekiełko - Piekiełko – Nowy Sącz – Muszyna3. „The Via Carpatia” road route No. 9 (planned expressway No. S-19) section: Rzeszów - Barwinek

MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTUREAND DEVELOPMENT

Polish – Slovak transport connections in TEN-T (2)

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Poland and Slovakia in the Core Network Corridor

• Length of PL-SK state border: 541 km (second the longest one after PL-CZ state border):

1) Number of cross-border rail lines: 3, out of them:

- 2 in permanent operation (Zwardoń and Muszyna),

- 1 in temporal operation (Przełęcz Łupkowska),

2) Number of cross-border national road connections: 4, out of them:

- 2 without axle load limitation (Chyzne and Barwinek),

- 1 motorway/ expressway in construction (Zwardoń),

- 1 national road in operation with axle load limitation (Piwniczna),

Role of Polish – Slovak border area in transport development on the North – South axis

Motorways/expressways in construction Motorways/expressways existing

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IMPORTANT ROAD BORDER CROSSING POINTS:

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Zwardoń/ Skalite(TEN-T core network)

Chyżne/ Trstena(TEN-T comprehensive net.)

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Barwinek/ Vyšný Komárnik(TEN-T comprehensive network) 5

Muszyna/ Plavec(TEN-T comprehensive network)

Rail lines in operation

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IMPORTANT RAIL BORDER CROSSING POINTS:

1 Zwardoń/ Skalite (TEN-T core network)

Other important road routes Other road and rail connections

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Role of Polish – Slovak border area in transport development on the North – South axis

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The E 65/ 139 – 129 – E 40 rail line, section: Katowice – Bielsko Biała state border PL/SK - Žilina

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The S-69 dual carriage expressway linking the crossing border point in Zwardoń.Source: GDDKiA

Status of road and rail infrastructure and public transport in the Polish – Slovak border area (1)

„Baltic – Adriatic Corridor”

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Motorway D-3 (Slovakia) Expressway S-69 (Poland) 8

Status of road and rail infrastructure in the Polish – Slovak border area

MAPA – Linia kolejowa na odcinku Tarnów - Muszyna – granica PL/SK - Prešov

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E30 rail line, section Kraków - Tarnów

Rail line No. 96/188, section Tarnów – Muszyna – PL/SK - Plavec - Prešov

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Status of road and rail infrastructure and public transport in the Polish – Slovak border area (2)

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Rail line (Kraków) – Tarnów – Muszyna – PL/SK - Plavec - Prešov

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Status of road and rail infrastructure in the Polish – Slovak border area

• Increase of the residents’ quality of life;

• Strengthening cooperation of the regions: Małopolska, Silesia, Žilina, Prešov, as well as the „Tatra” Euroregion - development of transport infrastructure;

• Increase of economic/trade activities

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Winter Olympic Games 2022

Better infrastructure connections are needed

ConcClusions

1. There is still a lot to do on the Polish – Slovakia border

2. Visible improved: after the completion of construction of the road infrastructure and modernization of the railway infrastructure, which is part of the TEN-T core network corridor "Baltic – Adriatic”.

3. Opening the freight road traffic, as well as upgrading the rail route in the cross-border section: Bielsko Biała – Zwardoń – Skalite - Žilina would allow:

• to remove an existing bottleneck, • to reduce time and cost of transport between Poland and Slovakia,• to expand the transit possibilities in the North – South axis with wider share of the

Polish seaports.

Conclusions

Thank you for attention

Anna Midera, Ph.DActing DirectorDepartment of Transport Policy and International CooperationMinistry of Infrastructure and DevelopmentRepublic of Polande-mail: anna.midera@mir.gov.pl www.mir.gov.pl