Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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(a) ROADS AND BRIDGES.
Roads.
I. Summary.
Stage
(a) Undertaken since
the beginning of
1929 and now com¬
pleted.
(b) Now in course of
execution 3.
(c) The execution of
which is at pre¬
sent in contempla¬
tion, or schemes
for which are in
preparation 4.
Construction of
new paved roads1
5,000 kilometres
Laying of modern 2
surfaces on existing roads
Remarks
1,000 kilometres
800 kilometres
5 >
200 kilometres
300 kilometres
4,800 kilometres
Including a roadway of gravel
and compressed fine gravel on
a foundation of ashlar, or,
alternatively, of half-dressed
stones laid by hand on a foun¬
dation of sand.
This category includes paving
with setts, bituminous and
asphalt surfaces and dressings,
brick surfaces, concrete, cemen¬
ted macadam, etc.
The works year corresponds to
the budgetary year, which
begins, not on January ist,
but on April ist.
These figures correspond to
the programme just drawn up
for a six-year period. Its exe¬
cution will be begun early in
the next works year.
In connection with this some¬
what extensive programme,
several of the country’s chief
quarries will be fitted with
up-to-date plant for the manu¬
facture of tar, asphalt and
bituminous compositions, to¬
gether with large-scale break¬
ing and sizing plant.
The above figures include all categories of roads. A special effort was made on the
departmental roads in Upper Silesia, where 70 % of the roads have been given an up-to-
date surface.
The breadth of the roads in Poland varies from 7 to 14 metres (that is, the all-over
width).
Under the new standards, a national, departmental or cantonal road in the open
country will have a roadway proper of from 5 to 6 metres broad and two pathways not
less than 1 metre broad and, in some cases, as much as 3.50 metres.
Local (communal) roads may be reduced to a width of 3 metres for the actual road
surface and 7 metres for the all-over width, including pathways.