The Warmian-Masurian Voivode has issued a decision, important from the point of view of our company, permitting the road investment on the Warmian-Masurian sections of the S61 expressway. The decision covers the Ełk Południe – Wysokie section, which means that the contractor – a consortium of TRAKCJA S.A., Mostostal Warszawa S.A. and PEUiM Sp. z o.o. – may soon begin construction works.
On 14 October, with the participation of Rafał Weber – Secretary of State at the Ministry of Infrastructure – and Arkadiusz Arciszewski – Vice-President of the Management Board and Technical Director of TRAKCJA S.A., a ceremonial launch of construction under the investment task took place.
The scope of the task includes building a section of the S61 expressway about 19 kilometres long and an almost 4-kilometre section of the S16 road, which will have a dual carriageway cross-section with service roads. In addition, selected local roads will be renovated and environmental protection facilities built. Over 20 engineering structures will be built as part of this investment, as well as the Ełk Wschód interchange. Owing to the requirements regarding the load-bearing capacity of the road, which must withstand loads exceeding an axle load of the order of 11 tonnes, the surface will be made of cement concrete.
The section being built is part of the international Via Baltica route, which, together with Rail Baltica, is an element of the planned trans-European transport corridor and which is to be the most important road link between the Baltic states, running from Warsaw through Lithuania and Latvia to Tallinn in Estonia. The value of this task is PLN 685.9 million.
