The Warsaw town hall has confirmed that there is available financing for the proposed second line of the metro.

Warsaw city mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz stated that the city has the 3.3 billion zloty needed for its constructruction. The administration has siad that it has amassed monies amounting to 3 billion 389 million zloty, around a billion dollars, for the cheapest option for the proposed second line, which would run from west to east, crossing the River Vistula.

The money was raised in part by tenders and from the European Union, which may be giving more than the standard 50 percent for such undertakings.

Six consortiums have put forward their tenders for the central part of the proposed line, and the final decision is going to be taken as to which consortium will proceed with the construction at the end of April.

(jb)