On Thursday, the Sejm Infrastructure Committee debated on the construction of a cross -city tunnel in Łódź. A representative of PKP PLK admitted that the construction of this tunnel is one of the most delayed railway investments in Poland.
Mariusz Serżysko, head of Przedsiębiorstwo Budowy Road and Mostów from Mińsk Mazowiecki during the speech at the Sejm Infrastructure Committee said that the company has put in a contract over PLN 500 million from its own resources and a bank loan, and from September last year he has been paying for maintenance of residents of residents relocated from flats in hotels during the construction of a tunnel.
“It costs us PLN 2 million per monthi.e. only for apartments for tenants of displaced tenement houses we have already paid PLN 20 million and did not get any money. Money always goes before the technique and now you need money. The indexation of the contract was PLN 125 million, i.e. 10 percent. The contract value, but the costs increased much more. We are technically and organizationally ready to continue the investment. We made small tunnels 2 months before the deadline. I assess the end of 2027 as a real deadline for completing drill and finishing works so that in 2028 you can introduce trains to the tunnel, but we work on zero funds. There is PLN 376 million on the contract account, “said Serżysko.
He revealed that the parking block for the drilling machine (the inspection is to undergo in this place before the next stage of tunnel drilling) was moved so that currently only 3 meters is missing so that the TBM “Katarzyna” shield arrives there. The goal was to release buildings as soon as possible.
Marcin Mochocki, a member of the management board of PKP PLK, admitted that the construction of a cross -country tunnel in Łódź is one of the two most delayed rail investments in Poland. Originally, the tunnel was to be ready on December 28, 2021. Since then, the contractor's bankruptcy was bankrupt, the construction was taken over by PBDIM, 6 annexes were signed – the last with the date of completion of the work by June 2026 with the launch of train traffic from December 2026.
“This term will probably change, but the new schedule has not yet been accepted,” Mochocki said, adding that one of the reasons for such a major investment delay was problems with obtaining administrative decisions. According to Mochock, they were successively issued in 2021 and 2022, i.e. after the date of the planned end of the contract.
“Tunnel drilling began on June 12, 2021, i.e. 6 months before the planned end of the contract” – added Mochocki. He added that the tunnel contract is already implemented twice as long as it was planned, and the construction time will probably approach 10 years.
Currently, all 4 tunnels of a small shield (TBM “Faustyna”) are hollowed out and equipped. The 980 m of a large tunnel (over 13 m in diameter) was divided into two sections from the stopping place to Śródmieście 450 Mi to the chamber at Łódź Fabryczna. On this section, the tunnel will rise to finally fit into the building of Lodz Fabryczna. The very level of tracks at the Łódź Fabryczna station.
Łódź residents, residents of tenement houses displaced in August and September last year, performed on the infrastructure committee. They were to be outside the home at least two weeks. As they calculated this period, it is already about 300 days.
“We moved to 10-12 days with the most necessary things. The seasons changed, and we could not even exchange our clothes. It is very difficult to function in this longer period. We came to the Sejm to find out when our ordeal will end?” – said one of the inhabitants of the displaced tenement house.
The second woman pointed to the huge losses that the tenants temporarily resettled.
“The apartments are in worse condition. Grovaled, damp, and we are observing new cracks. I can't imagine returning to my old apartment. We could not take our things, and equipment, furniture, clothes are not suitable after so many months for use” – added another displaced tenant.
Another complained that the city moved away from the relocated Łódź residents, and the inhabitants displaced from their premises were not even exempt from real estate tax, not to mention the rent.
“We heard that this is not an urban investment. So we are not the inhabitants of Łódź? So why do we pay taxes, rents for apartments where we do not stay? I paid full bailiff for a flat. In the office I heard – that when I go on vacation, I also pay rent.
“We do not know when we will return to our apartments and whether we can go back there. Nobody dared and told us what the loss of the value of our apartments is. We are treated like rubbish. Nobody counts with us. We feel cheated” – residents complained about MPs.
MP Włodzimierz Tomaszewski appearing during the committee reminded that he was starting the construction of the underground railway station as the Vice President of Łódź and the station project was financially connected with the tunnel construction project.
“EU assistance for these investments is conditioned by the end of both elements and if the tunnel is not created, you will have to give away money. It is PLN 3 billion,” said Tomaszewski.
He added that if the contractor of the tunnel as a company falls, Łódź will stay with a part of the hollow tunnel, and the state will have to return PLN 3 billion to the European Union.
“These are threats. That is why the mobilization of all state institutions is very important to guarantee the contractors with adequate value valorization and guarantee money for apartments for the tenants” – said MP Tomaszewski.
MP Agnieszka Wojciechowska Van Heukelom added that she is also afraid that the contractor could not do and will go bankrupt.
“Who will then take care of the residents? Only the contractor is worried about the fate of the inhabitants. From a different angle I do not see any concern for people and their situation,” said Wojciechowska.
She added that already at the stage of preparation for the construction of the tunnel, as a social activist she pointed out that “Łódź tenements hang on the other, they have shallow foundations and the domino effect is very predictable, but the Mayor of the city asked which tenements are on the tunnel route she replied that she did not know, because the investment is government.”
MP Andrzej Adamczyk after the speech of residents relocated from tenement houses said that he did not realize the scale of the problem, which occurs in both social and “technological and financial” sphere.
“The President of Łódź, the Łódź Voivode is absent from the commission. Their presence is necessary, as is necessary, the preliminary direction decisions of the Minister of Infrastructure regarding the termination of the technological and financial package” – said the MP and suggested to stop the committee meeting, and to ask the minister of infrastructure for the presence, to the head of the Ministry of Interior and And to the President of Łódź, to be present at the committee meeting, “said Adamczyk.
The chairman of the Infrastructure Committee, Mirosław Suchoń, did not interrupt the Commission, as Adamczyk suggested, but announced a meeting in this matter, indicating that it is to be considered whether the next committee would take place in the Sejm building, whether he would be an away commission in Łódź.
“We did not hear the most important, and that's why we came. We did not hear the answer to the question: how long? First, there was information that we would come home at Christmas. In January we heard that the machine would start in February. March, April, May, May. – One of the women present at the meeting of the Women's Commission (PAP) asked on behalf of the displaced tenants of Łódź tenement houses.
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