OPENING OF THE EXTENDED RUDNO JUNCTION ON THE A4 KATOWICE-KRAKÓW MOTORWAY
The Rudno junction on the A4 Katowice-Kraków motorway was commissioned today, i.e. on Friday, 9 June 2017. After the extension, it enables drivers to go in all directions.
The construction works related to the Rudno junction were completed in the first quarter of this year. The process of obtaining necessary permits and administrative decisions without which it would not have been possible to commission the junction to the full extent has only just been completed.
'For the Alwernia, Krzeszowice and Spytkowice communes as well as the Kraków and Chrzanów poviats, the extension of the Rudno junction is a key road investment from the point of view of the economic development. From now on, the entrepreneurs and residents of this region can easily and more conveniently enter and exit the A4 motorway in the direction of these communes. A good cooperation with local government authorities and the Governor of Małopolskie Voivodeship allowed us to complete this investment earlier than originally planned,' says Rafał Czechowski, Stalexport Autostrada Małopolska SA. spokesman.
Before the commencement of the investment, the Rudno junction made it possible to exit the A4 motorway from Katowice into the Krzeszowice-Alwernia poviat road and enter the motorway from the Krzeszowice-Alwernia road in the direction of Kraków. Slip roads and a roundabout allowing the drivers coming from Kraków to exit the motorway into the road to Krzeszowice or Alwernia and the drivers coming from the Alwernia or Krzeszowice road to enter the motorway in the direction of Katowice were built as part of the modernisation of the junction on the northern side of the A4 motorway. The road lighting was made at the roundabout and on the connecting road sections adjacent to the roundabout, both along new slip roads and the poviat road.
The Rudno junction extension project has been implemented since August 2015 under the contract entitled "Extension of the Mysłowice junction and construction of the Rudno junction on the A4 Katowice-Kraków motorway"; the total value of the contract was approx. PLN 22.3 million. The extended Mysłowice junction also enabling drivers to go in all directions was commissioned in November 2016.
Videos presenting both junctions after the modernisation are available on the YouTube channel of the A4 Katowice-Kraków motorway:
Rudno junction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvN7r_q8t0
Mysłowice junction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFsKPEV_Dg
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About Stalexport Autostrada Małopolska S.A. (SAM S.A.)
Stalexport Autostrada Małopolska S.A. manages the 60-kilometre long stretch of the A4 motorway between Katowice and Krakow. It is the first fully functional road of this kind in Poland, built within the framework of public-private partnership as a brownfield investment – modernisation of the road built in the 1970s and 1980s. Stalexport Autostrada Małopolska S.A. has held the concession for its adaptation to the requirements of a toll motorway and operation since 1997. Meeting the concession obligations has required numerous investments. All investment projects, including current maintenance of the road, are financed from tolls for using the concession stretch and from loans obtained from an international bank consortium. Unlike other concessions for managing toll motorways, the project run by Stalexport Autostrada Małopolska S.A. does not burden the state budget in any way. The company does not receive the so-called availability payments from the State. The company does not benefit from any State Treasury subsidies or guarantees.
For further information please contact:
Rafał Czechowski
Spokesperson for SAM S.A.
e-mail: [email protected]
tel. 601063200