The concept for the expansion of the railway transport system on the West Pomeranian Coast

Abstrakt

The aim of the article is to indicate the directions and possibilities of expanding the rail transport system on the West Pomeranian Coast, resulting from the objectives enshrined in the Resolution No. 173/2017 of the Council of Ministers of 7 November 2017 on preparation and implementation for the Port of Solidarność investment - Central Communication Port for the Republic of Poland. The development of tourist functions on the West Pomeranian Coast, combined with the impairment and limitation of the role of rail transport is the reason for considering the final shape of the rail transport system. The West Pomeranian coast on the section from the city of Dziwnów to the city of Mielno is currently an area of very intense development of tourist and recreational functions with the dominating role of spa and recreational functions concentrating around Kołobrzeg. Kołobrzeg is currently the fastest growing city of the Koszalin-Kołobrzeg-Białogard Functional Area with a very large increase in housing resources and tourist accommodation base and tourist infrastructure. Elimination of the communication exclusion of Central Pomerania through the construction / reconstruction of the railway line Central Communication Port-Płock-Toruń-Bydgoszcz-Nakło nad Notecią-Okonek-Szczecinek-Białogard-Kołobrzeg/Koszalin (Central Pomeranian Main Line Railway) and the creation of a new transport corridor along the Gdynia railway-Lębork-Słupsk-Koszalin-Kołobrzeg-Trzebiatów-Gryfice-Goleniów Airport-Goleniów-Szczecin (Baltic Main Line Railway) allows you to indicate Kolobrzeg as the most important transport hub of the West Pomeranian coast as part of rail, road (S-6, S-11), sea transport (ferry base) and air. The dominating role of Kołobrzeg in coastal tourism means that it may also be necessary to build a railway line servicing seaside towns along the coast in relation to Kamień Pomorski-Rewal-Mrzeżyno-Kołobrzeg-Mielno-Koszalin as part of the LRT system as so-called Light Coastal Railway (LKN Kołobrzeg) and rebuilding the layout of railway lines and links in the cities of Kołobrzeg, Koszalin and Białogard.