Transport budget 2024 will ensure that the rapid pace of infrastructure construction continues12/9/2023|Press releasesThe State Fund for Transport Infrastructure will have CZK 150.5 billion at its disposal next year. The draft budget of the Fund was approved by the Committee of the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure. The budget is made up of national resources amounting to CZK 118.4 billion, of which 26 billion is debt financing, and of European funds amounting to CZK 32.1. "The budget proposal for next year confirms that transport construction is the key priority of the state and the pre-condition for further necessary growth of the economy. It is important that we keep up the pace of investment even in times of austerity. The society expects from us and I take it as our duty that in the coming years we will be able to implement long-prepared investments for the completion and modernisation of the railway and motorway infrastructure," says transport minister Martin Kupka. Regarding the distribution of expenditure, investments amount to CZK 99.4 billion and non-investment expenditure is CZK 51.1 billion. Expenditure on railways is expected to amount to CZK 57.48 billion. The construction of the line to the Prague Airport will continue and work will also begin on the modernisation of the line Plzeň – Domažlice – German border. Design work on HSL will also continue. The Road and Motorway Directorate (ŘSD) will operate with a record budget of more than CZK 79 billion. This will help us start construction of new essential roads and motorways, such as the border section of D11, four sections of the D35 motorway or another part of the Prague ring road between Běchovice and the D1 motorway. The budget also provides for a contribution to the regions for repairs and reconstruction of their category II and III roads, under which the regions will share CZK 4 billion next year. More than 1 billion will go to rail operators to support the introduction of the single European Train Control System (ETCS). There are currently 266 kilometres of roads under construction, of which 178.7 kilometres are motorways and 87.3 kilometres are category I roads. A record of 113.7 kilometres of new motorway sections shall be opened next yearsuch as the 32 kilometres of the D4 motorway, 28.4 kilometres of the D3 motorway around České Budějovice and the 21.4-km section of the D55 motorway near Uherské Hradiště. More information on completed and upcoming construction can be found in the interactive map of the Road and Motorway Directorate. As far as railway construction is concerned, the modernisation of the line Praha-Bubny – Praha-Výstaviště is currently under way as part of the connection to the Prague Airport, construction work is also in full swing in Kladno for the complete modernisation of the railway station and railway line. Next year the double-tracking of the bridge in Prague-Braník will be completed. In Pardubice construction workers continue with the reconstruction and modernisation of the railway node. Reconstruction of passenger buildings is also continuing, for example in Písek, Bilina, Aš, Benešov nad Ploučnicí and Krásná Lípa. More information on completed and upcoming construction can be found in the interactive map of the Správa železnic.