Editing Second Polish Republic (section)

===Transport===
[[File:WWII-Poland-1939-communications and industry.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.35|Industry and communications in Poland before the start of the Second World War]]

According to the 1939 ''Statistical Yearbook of Poland'', the total length of the railways in Poland (as of 31 December 1937) was {{cvt|20118|km|0|abbr=off}}. Rail density was {{cvt|5.2|km|1|abbr=off}} per {{cvt|100|km2|abbr=off}}. Railways were very dense in the western part of the country, while in the east, especially [[Polesie]], rail was non-existent in some counties. During the interbellum period, the Polish Government constructed several new lines, mainly in the central part of the country (see also [[Polish State Railroads Summer 1939]]). Construction of the extensive [[Warszawa Główna railway station]] was never finished due to the war, while Polish railways were famous for their punctuality (see [[Luxtorpeda]], [[Strzała Bałtyku]], [[Latający Wilnianin]]).

In the interbellum, the road network of Poland was dense, but the quality of the roads was very poor – only 7% of all roads were paved and ready for automobile use, and none of the major cities were connected with each other by a good-quality highway. In 1939 the Poles built only one highway: 28&nbsp;km of straight concrete road connecting the villages of Warlubie and Osiek (mid-northern Poland). It was designed by Italian engineer Piero Puricelli.
[[File:CWS T-1 torpedo (replika) w Gdańsku.JPG|thumb|left|The [[CWS T-1]] ''Torpedo'' was the first serially-built car manufactured in Poland.]]

In the mid-1930s, Poland had {{cvt|340000|km|0|abbr=off}} of roads, but only 58,000 had a hard surface (gravel, [[cobblestone]] or [[Sett (paving)|sett]]), and 2,500 were modern, with an asphalt or concrete surface. In different parts of the country, there were sections of paved roads, which suddenly ended, and were followed by dirt roads.<ref name="polityka"/> The poor condition of the roads was the result of both long-lasting foreign dominance and inadequate funding. On 29 January 1931, the Polish Parliament created the State Road Fund, the purpose of which was to collect money for the construction and conservation of roads. The government drafted a 10-year plan, with road priorities: a highway from Wilno, through Warsaw and Kraków, to [[Zakopane]] (called Marshal Piłsudski Highway), asphalt highways from Warsaw to Poznań and Łódź, as well as a Warsaw ring road. However, the plan turned out to be too ambitious, with insufficient money in the national budget to pay for it. In January 1938, the Polish Road Congress estimated that Poland would need to spend three times as much money on roads to keep up with [[Western Europe]].

In 1939, before the outbreak of the war, [[LOT Polish Airlines]], which was established in 1929, had its hub at [[Warsaw Chopin Airport|Warsaw Okęcie Airport]]. At that time, LOT maintained several services, both domestic and international. Warsaw had regular domestic connections with [[Gdynia]]-[[Rumia]], [[Gdańsk|Danzig]]-[[Wrzeszcz|Langfuhr]], [[Katowice-Muchowiec Airport|Katowice-Muchowiec]], [[Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny Airport|Kraków-Rakowice-Czyżyny]], [[Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport|Lwów-Skniłów]], [[Poznań–Ławica Airport|Poznań-Ławica]], and [[Vilnius|Wilno-Porubanek]]. Furthermore, in cooperation with [[Air France]], [[TAROM|LARES]], [[Lufthansa]], and [[Malert]], international connections were maintained with [[Athens]], [[Beirut]], Berlin, [[Bucharest]], [[Budapest]], [[Helsinki]], [[Kaunas]], London, Paris, [[Prague]], [[Riga]], Rome, [[Tallinn]], and [[Zagreb]].<ref name="ministerstwa"/>