The weather situation in Poland is very difficult for road traffic. On the night from Monday to Tuesday, the country was hit by snowstorms, snowstorms and strong winds. We asked the Warsaw City Cleaning Authority about the costs of Tuesday's action.
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“Activities in the context of yesterday's snowstorm in the areas for which the City Cleaning Authority is responsible, they cost approximately PLN 9 million. This is the cost of five actions of 170 plow spreaders on 1,500 km of streets – in practice, continuous operations from 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 30, to 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 31,” the press office of the Warsaw City Cleanup Board told Business Insider.
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As indicated, the cost also includes work on four million square meters of sidewalks, on which work has been ongoing for over 24 hours, and which is also carried out continuously during snowfall.
“Forecasts indicate that after 3 p.m. snow will appear again in Warsaw; according to the rainfall zone reading from the radar, it will be rainfall lasting several hours. Therefore, the costs of activities at the end of the year will increase,” we read further.
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“It is worth noting, however, that these are not the full costs of activities in the capital – the City Cleaning Authority organizes snow removal and protection against slipperiness of some areas, key streets where city buses run and pedestrian areas. In addition to ZOM, district offices that commission work in municipal areas, the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways on expressways, as well as other area managers on internal and housing estate roads, and in the case of adjacent sidewalks, are also responsible for snow removal in Warsaw. to real estate – also the managers of these properties,” officials inform.
Provisions for snow removal costs are increasing
City Cleaning Authority for the current winter season has PLN 100 million reserved in the budget. How much Warsaw will ultimately spend for the winter will be revealed at the end of the season, because the final costs are generated by the activities carried out, not by the companies' six-month availability to undertake them.
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The costs of winter activities in the areas for which the City Cleaning Authority is responsible were as follows:
- 2024/25 – 39 activities on the streets and works on sidewalks cost PLN 53 million, PLN 78 million was reserved
- 2023/24, the cost of 47 activities on streets and sidewalks amounted to PLN 72.5 million, PLN 80 million was reserved,
- 2022/23 cost of 39 activities – PLN 60 million, reserved PLN 79 million
- 2021/22 cost of 38 activities – PLN 54 million, reserved PLN 68 million
- 2020/21 – cost of 47 activities – PLN 57 million, PLN 72 million reserved
