"Metro on Rocks
Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-
Waltz all but admitted this
week that the city may not go
ahead with the planned second line of its
metro system due to financial concerns
and certainly not in time for the 2012
European Football Championships.
The city is to spend the next few weeks
reexamining the plans for the line after
contractors submitted bids of roughly
double the PLN 3 billion initially put
aside for the project.
Central to the rise in costs is a decision to
build the metro under the Vistula river as
well as a general increase in the price of construction
in Poland over the last two years.
"If the metro is not built, that will be OK
too," Gronkiewicz-Waltz told news channel
TVN 24 in an interview this week.
The UEFAhas praised us as a city for our
public transport. Thanks to the tram network
it is much better than most European cities.
The new metro line was to have ferried
fans to the new national stadium, being
built on the site of the old Russian market
Stadion DziesiOEciolecia on the eastern
bank of the Vistula. There is an existing
train network that runs to the site but it is
owned in part by national rail company
PKP and attempts to put it entirely in the
city s hands have so far fallen by the wayside.
The new metro line was estimated to
cost more than 900 million zlotys per
square kilometre which would have
made it the most expensive line to be built
in Europe in recent years.
City authorities have said they plan to
spend around PLN 15 billion over the next
four years to prepare the city for the championships.
The extensive roadworks undertaken
in the city over the last year are just
the first step.
The plans include a ring road around the
city centre, the second metro line as well as
two new bridges. Another PLN 2 billion
will go towards training stadiums and other
tournament venues, developing the banks
of the river and technical infrastructure.
We think that the chances of completing
the (metro) contract before Euro 2012
is near to zero," BRE Bank analyst
Maciej Stok‡osa wrote in research for
clients this week.
If the chances are so low then there
seems no sense in worrying about time.
STEVEN MULLER"
Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-
Waltz all but admitted this
week that the city may not go
ahead with the planned second line of its
metro system due to financial concerns
and certainly not in time for the 2012
European Football Championships.
The city is to spend the next few weeks
reexamining the plans for the line after
contractors submitted bids of roughly
double the PLN 3 billion initially put
aside for the project.
Central to the rise in costs is a decision to
build the metro under the Vistula river as
well as a general increase in the price of construction
in Poland over the last two years.
"If the metro is not built, that will be OK
too," Gronkiewicz-Waltz told news channel
TVN 24 in an interview this week.
The UEFAhas praised us as a city for our
public transport. Thanks to the tram network
it is much better than most European cities.
The new metro line was to have ferried
fans to the new national stadium, being
built on the site of the old Russian market
Stadion DziesiOEciolecia on the eastern
bank of the Vistula. There is an existing
train network that runs to the site but it is
owned in part by national rail company
PKP and attempts to put it entirely in the
city s hands have so far fallen by the wayside.
The new metro line was estimated to
cost more than 900 million zlotys per
square kilometre which would have
made it the most expensive line to be built
in Europe in recent years.
City authorities have said they plan to
spend around PLN 15 billion over the next
four years to prepare the city for the championships.
The extensive roadworks undertaken
in the city over the last year are just
the first step.
The plans include a ring road around the
city centre, the second metro line as well as
two new bridges. Another PLN 2 billion
will go towards training stadiums and other
tournament venues, developing the banks
of the river and technical infrastructure.
We think that the chances of completing
the (metro) contract before Euro 2012
is near to zero," BRE Bank analyst
Maciej Stok‡osa wrote in research for
clients this week.
If the chances are so low then there
seems no sense in worrying about time.
STEVEN MULLER"
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