Road transport is a very important factor, constituting an important element of the country’s economy and of the labor market. The good quality of international connections creates possibilities of faster and safer traffic on the roads, in passenger and freight transport. It increases the traffic flow by separating local traffic from international one for increased comfort and driving safety. It should be noted, however, that linear development projects, apart from undisputed economic capacity benefits in general, have a negative impact on the shaping of spatial structure of rural areas. Development projects lead to division of land into smaller pieces, scattering of farms on both sides of the route, which increases fragmentation and dispersal of land farms. The study presents the process of creating areas excluded from agricultural production that accompanies construction of new roads in Poland. Based on a study of four road construction projects, the paper presents the cost of acquisition of remnants and the area of land that has been set aside. The possibility of restoring these lands to agricultural production was also analyzed.