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conveniently linked with the national roads DK 5, DK 10 and DK 25, and it has its own
railway siding.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport in Bydgoszcz was created on the basis of a military
airport using its runways. It is a regional port with a modern terminal offering the
whole range of services in both domestic and international transit. The runway is
2500m long and 60m wide and it can take most types of aircraft. The airport is
additionally equipped with a modern, computerised aircraft balancing system and
contact system, as well as electronic passenger and luggage monitoring system. The
terminal is a three-storey building of the area exceeding 7 000 m 2 and with the
capacity of dealing with more than 200 000 passengers a year. At present, there are
about 30 000 passengers and 3000 tonnes of cargo dealt with per year. Reaching the
maximum capacity of the terminal is predicted for 2015.
The airfield in Toruń has runways of 1200 m in length and 55 m in width. It does not
possess a terminal or regular domestic or international connections.
Water transport
The analysed area is crossed by water routes the Noteć – the Bydgoszcz Channel – the
Vistula River. There are river ports in Bydgoszcz and Toruń which are virtually notused
at the moment.
Recent years have seen a revival of tourism on the water routs, especially on the
Bydgoszcz Channel. A water tram has been created in Bydgoszcz. Apart from the
winter time, the ship is shuttle on the Brda River connecting the Fish Market and
Tesco hypermarket, with one service a day being extended up to the Higher Economic
School. It takes several minutes for the tram to cover the whole way. This means of
transport is a highly seasonal one in its nature, and it must be regarded more in terms
of a tourist attraction than a vital way of catering for the residents’ transport needs.
Conclusions
The analyses carried out within both Activities result in a few general conclusions:
1. BTMA is different from the rest of the voivodship in respect of most areas being
analysed.
2. BTMA is characterised by a strong internal variation in many analysed areas.
3. Bydgoszcz and Toruń are regional centres focusing an overwhelming majority of
social and economic potential.
4. Bydgoszcz and Toruń are two major communication hubs for both intra- and
interregional transport – the concentrate most roads and railway lines of
interregional importance, they are the meeting point for the few existing water
ways, Bydgoszcz possesses an airport, both cities are also the junctions of
interregional connections.
The analysis of the existing preconditions unveils the following problem areas for
transport and communications:
- lack of motorway and express roads system (A-1, S-5, S-10) as a developmentboosting
factor in BTMA at present,
- lack of final decisions concerning the location of the S-5 road in the vicinity of
Bydgoszcz,
- no binding decisions concerning the main communication connection in N-S
direction in Toruń,
- the role of the national road no.80 as the main transport connection in BTMA –
problems with routing, servicing the adjacent areas, protection against the
building process,
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