Ministry of Transport and Communications, Press release
Additional funding to the amount of €364 million has been allocated to basic infrastructure maintenance for the period of 2017–2019. The funding has been transferred from development projects that had not been designated and it is intended for reducing the maintenance backlog in the transport network.
The funding is directed to improvement of roads, railways and private roads and supporting transport projects in urban areas. This additional funding complements the backlog maintenance programme totalling €600 million published by the Government in February 2016.
- The Government has granted an additional €1 million to curb the maintenance backlog. The now allocated additional funding for basic infrastructure maintenance is a response to customer needs on several sites across Finland. The preparations for the programme had an emphasis especially on the operational preconditions for businesses, commuting needs and traffic safety, says Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner.
The targets for additional funding have been chosen on the basis of the material provided by the Finnish Transport Agency and the ELY Centres. Recent knowledge about customer needs has also been used to a considerable extent.