Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday that his conservative government was giving the country's rail system its biggest revamp in 30 years, the IAR news agency reported.

The aim of the drive is to increase the comfort and safety of passengers, Morawiecki said at a railway station in the eastern town of Dęblin.

The station is one of a number of rail facilities across Poland that are being renovated under a PLN 67 billion (EUR 15.6, USD 18.06) investment programme with the aim of restoring the country’s previously neglected rail sector to its “former glory,” Morawiecki said, according to IAR.

Another goal of the undertaking is to link the central and eastern parts of the country, he added.

The project is part of wider government efforts to improve the country’s transport network.

Speaking at the opening of a new stretch of the S12 expressway near the eastern town of Puławy, Morawiecki said that Poland's conservative government, led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, aimed to build many new roads across the country, Poland’s PAP news agency reported.

Infrastructure Minister Andrzej Adamczyk seconded that Poland’s road system would soon "be just as modern as those in western and southern Europe.”

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Source: PAP, IAR