Our interlocutor argues that we have achieved great economic success in recent decades, which – despite many investments – has not been followed by the development of adequate infrastructure. Part of Polish society notices this. He does not refer to emotions or grand slogans, but to fully substantive arguments, including, above all, data on the current and forecasted growth of the Polish economy, analyses of the place of this economy in global trade and the value chain, as well as development opportunities that we are already losing and will lose due to the lack of appropriate transport infrastructure, including an airport appropriate to the size and needs of such a large country and fast railway lines connecting the largest cities.
The specificity of infrastructure is that it is very easy to spot. We meet in Krynica, to which we drove three hours from Krakow. And that is 150 km. No one has yet thought about an expressway, at least to Nowy Sącz. This clearly shows the shortcomings. In the case of railways, we have a completely dramatic situation: de facto we use the railway system inherited from the occupiers. Before the CPK project, no coherent vision of the development of the rail transport system in Poland within the borders after 1945 was developed. CPK is therefore an attempt to catch up with the great civilizational backwardness – argues Maciej Wilk.
In his opinion, the number of collected signatures motivates the Association to exert constant pressure on the current authorities not to delay the necessary actions and not to reduce the scope of investments. He points out that the project enjoys strong support from the largest Polish global entrepreneurs, led by Ryszard Florek, the founder of Fakro.
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