Acronym

LIP885

NUMBER

LIP/0001/16

Project type

Large Infrastructure Project

STATUS

Completed

THEMATIC OBJECTIVE

ACCESSIBILITY

PRIORITY

2.1 Improvement and development of transport services and infrastructure

PARTNERSHIP

PL-UA

LEAD BENEFICIARY

Podkarpackie Regional Road Management (Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland)

BENEFICIARY

Lviv Regional State Administration (Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)

Project description

The main problem of the project area is an underdeveloped road infrastructure as well as insufficient quantity and low quality of transportation connections. The condition of technical infrastructure hinders contacts and cross-border traffic which as a result reduces the attractiveness of the region for investors and impedes development processes.

The objective of the LIP885 project is to support cross-border development processes in the borderland of Poland and Ukraine by improving transport accessibility and the condition of road infrastructure. This will be achieved through the modernization of almost 7 km of the regional road No. 885 on the state border, between Przemyśl and Hermanowice, which is the main activity of the LIP885 project. As a result, the project will allow for communication accessibility at the designed Polish-Ukrainian border crossing Malhowice-Nyzhankovychi.

The implementation of the project will increase the accessibility from the Podkarpackie Voivodeship into Western Ukraine and vice versa. The effect of the planned modernization will be the creation of a new road connection between the two countries, an alternative to the existing Przemyśl–Medyka–Lviv connection. It will reduce discrepancies in infrastructure and will result in the creation of a new investment area in the vicinity of the expanded road as well as an increase in international traffic mobility.