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Planned stations of Line II:
Chrzanów
Lazurowa
Powstańców ¦l±skich
Czuchnowska
Wolska
Bema
Płocka
Daszyńskiego Traffic Circle
ONZ Traffic Circle
Centrum (Marszałkowska)
Nowy ¦wiat
Powi¶le
Praga Centrum (Praga Port)
Dw. Wileński Railway Station
Szwedzka
Targówek
Zacisze
Kondratowicza
Rembielińska
Engineering design of the middle part of Line II of the Subway
So far, the development conditions pertaining to the middle section of Line II of the subway have been approved. The current design for the course of Line II along this section is based on the following assumptions:
Planned stations:
* Daszyńskiego Traffic Circle
* ONZ Traffic Circle
* Marszałkowska
* Nowy ¦wiat
* Powi¶le
* Praga Centrum
* Dworzec Wileński
The Daszyńskiego Traffic Circle Station will be located just before the Daszyńskiego Traffic Circle, at the crossing of Towarowa and Prosta streets. The subway tunnel will run towards the centre along Prosta and then ¦więtokrzyska Street, until it meets Marszałkowska Street. There the Marszałkowska Station will be located.
The next section of the subway will be dug along ¦więtokrzyska Street towards Nowy ¦wiat. At the intersection of these streets the Nowy ¦wiat Station will be located.
Then the subway will run towards Powi¶le.
The Powi¶le Station will be built along Zajęcza Street, between Dobra Street and Wybrzeże Ko¶ciuszkowskie.
For the first time, the subway will also be drilled to the eastern side of the Vistula River. The subway tunnel will run under the ¦więtokrzyski Bridge towards Praga North. The Praga Centrum Station will be the first one to be built in this borough, at the intersection of Sokoła and Nowojagiellońska streets.
The subway tunnel will then turn left towards the north and run along Targowa Street to the crossing with Al. Solidarno¶ci Street. The Dworzec Wileński Station will be located there.
Prospects for building Line II of the subway in Warsaw
Warsaw's existing spatial arrangement is based on an elliptical shape, whose longer diameter of approx. 30 km is parallel to the Vistula River. An adequate transportation system integrated with this spatial arrangement should ensure efficient and convenient connections of the most distant locations in the city between one another and the centre and provide smooth transit between the parts of the city located on both sides of the Vistula River. Unfortunately, the existing transportation system is the most important obstacle for Warsaw's development and has an adverse effect on the living conditions of its inhabitants. In order to make up for many years of lost time, lost inter alia for the city transportation system, the Warsaw City Council adopted on May 25, 1998 the "Warsaw Development Strategy until 2010" as the basis for the municipal local authorities to prepare detailed development programs and city development plans. The "Strategy" defines the main strategic objectives and operating goals, which substantiate the main strategic objectives. A set of the necessary implementation tasks was prepared for each operating goal. One of the operating goals is to "improve the operating efficiency of the city transportation system". The implementation task for the mass transit pertaining to the subway is:
- accelerate the construction of Line I of the subway,
- take the decision on the construction of subsequent subway lines, after prior presentation of a complete costing analysis and benefits and indication of the source of financing,
- modernization or replacement of subway cars.
The financing capabilities of Warsaw's investment needs pertaining to technical infrastructure depend on the level of budget revenue and the level of expenditures required to meet the current public needs. The calculations indicate that the budgets of local authorities in Warsaw are unable to finance even the top priority development needs. In the years 1998 - 2010, the coverage of these needs will be approximately 40 - 48 per cent. Because the national government's involvement in the financing of the city's investments has been going down, it is difficult to foresee what amounts the government will allocate for investment purposes in Warsaw. Therefore, it is expected that new subway lines in Warsaw should be built under the licensing system, without involving resources of the city budget. Based on the experience of other cities in Europe and elsewhere, it was found that partnership with a private entity which will provide financing for the subway construction and from which the city will incur a long term debt, is the best solution. Having analyzed all formal and organizational aspects of such partnership, and ensuring that it is viable under Polish conditions, in June 2002 the Warsaw City Council adopted a resolution in which it granted approval for the construction of Line II and a section of Line III of the subway under a private-public partnership and put the Warsaw City Board under obligation to carry out the necessary preparatory work. Based on the “Technological Analysis of Line II and III of the Warsaw Subway”, the Warsaw City Board approved the routes of these lines, namely:
Line II of the subway is to be the main axis of mass transit in the east-west direction.
The route of Line II is as follows: from the Chrzanów station to the Rembielińska Station with the intermediate stations: Lazurowa, Powstańców ¦l±skich, Człuchowska, Wolska, Bema, Płocka, Daszyńskiego Traffic Circle, ONZ Traffic Circle, Marszałkowska, Nowy ¦wiat, Powi¶le, Praga Centrum, Dworzec Wileński, Szwedzka, Targówek, Zacisze, Kondratowicza.
A section of Line III of the subway: Praga Centrum – Kijowska Street – Dwornickiego Street – Wiatraczna Traffic Circle – Al. Stanów Zjednoczonych Street – Grenadierów Street – Gocław Estate – Bora Komorowskiego Street with the following stations: Praga Centrum, Dworzec Wschodni, Podskarbińska, Wiatraczna Traffic Circle, Ostrobramska, Orlik and Wilga.
The length of Line II of the subway is 19 kilometers and 19 stations were located along the route. In the city centre the line follows ¦więtokrzyska Street, and then near the A14 ¦więtokrzyska Station it crosses the subway's Line I. An especially important part of Line II is the pass under the Vistula River. It is expected that the subway passage will follow the centre line of the ¦więtokrzyska Route, in a tunnel under the river. The length of the Praga section of Line III of the subway is 6.5km and 7 stations were located along the route.
In the last two years the City authorities have talked to many potential investors – leading sources of financing and project management companies. Virtually all key companies expressed their interest in participating in this project. There is immense interest of the private sector in the development of the Warsaw subway under the public-private partnership (the so-called “PPP Concept”).
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