Polish motorists will have to pay tolls on new city circular routes, minister of infrastructure Cezary Grabarczyk confirmed in Parliament today after being questioned by opposition Law and Justice MPs.

The minister argued that this is a result both from legal requirements and financial considerations.

New city circulars are being constructed among others in Rzeszów, Tarnów, the Silesian agglomeration, Częstochowa and Łódź.

Minister Grabarczyk argued that lifting the tolls would cost the budget of the national Roads Fund by 1.2 billion zloty (some 0.3 billion euro).

He said that since November 2007 the government had contracted more than 1400 kilometres of motorways and roads in Poland and that all big cities on the motorway network should have circular routes by 2012. (ek)

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