"The plan involves a powerful investment in the railway with maintenance investments in important passenger and freight routes," writes the Swedish Transport Administration in the recurring proposal for updating the traffic plan 2022-2033.
The need to upgrade the road network is greater than the money allocated, according to the authority.
The condition of the state road network has gradually deteriorated.
"Despite increased funding, they are not sufficient to reverse the negative development of conditions on the road network.
In the long term, this will lead to increasing maintenance costs ", writes the Swedish Transport Administration's director general Lena Erixon in a press release.