The Three Seas Initiative spine is growing
Next section of the international Via Carpathia route is ready in the Lubelskie Region. It is the road joining Lasy Janowkie with the Zdziary village, i.e. section S-19. – From my point of view, Via Carpathis will be a kind of a spine for the Three Seas Initiative countries – said President of Poland Andrzej Duda during the June Three Seas Forum of Regions in Lublin.
The new road section starts after the Lasy Janowskie interchange in the Lubelskie Region. The express way S-19 runs alongside the existing national road 19.
Via Carpathia will bring tremendous changes in terms of communication. It is important for me not only because it will run through Eastern Poland but also because it is in the line with the Three Seas Initiative programme – underlines the President of Poland.
Via Carpathia, which largely covers the S-19 road is a European route, which is to join the south with the north of the continent. As a target, the road will make it possible to go from Greece (Saloniki) as far as to Klaipeda – a Lithuanian port at the Baltic Sea. It runs through Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Lithuania. All these countries hope that the finished road will develop trade and enable the countries situated alongside to get richer. The 570km S19 road is an expressway running through the eastern part of the country. It connects the border with Slovakia, Rzeszów and Lublin with Białystok, and makes it possible to go further to Belarus.
The sections between Lublin and Rzeszów will be systematically opened until the middle of 2022. The Via Carpathia route will connect Białystok with Lublin at the turn of 2024 and 2025.
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