Clinched Highway Mapping

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

source in Polish

A1 Bełk - Świerklany: 14,1 km 11-2010
A8 Wrocław (phase I): 13,7 km 12-2010
S3 Szczecin - Gorzów Wielkopolski: 81,6 km 1-2010 to 9-2010
S6 Słupsk: 6,9 km 9-2010
S7 Skarżysko-Kamienna - Występa: 16,7 km 12-2010
S7 Kraków - A4: 2,7 km 4-2010
S8 Warszawa-Konotopa - Warszawa-Prymasa Tysiąclecia: 10,4 km 12-2010

recently opened sections:
A1 Sośnica - Bełk: 15,4 km 12-2009
A4 Kraków/Wieliczka - Szarów: 19,9 km 10-2009
S5/10 Stryszek - Białe Błota: 8,2 km 12-2009
S5 Białe Błota - Lipniki: 2,2 km 12-2009
S7 Kielce Północ: 7,3 km 10-2009
S7 Lubien bypass: 4,0 km
S10 Stargard Szczecinski bypass: 13,5 km 12-2009

The A/S-openings will really take off in 2011-2012 when over 1,000 kilometers of freeway-grade roads will be opened to traffic. Currently, 649 kilometers is under construction, with another 1,182 kilometers in tender, going U/C in the coming year.

admin · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

That link is a rather extensive summary. It might be worth it for me to check my work against it.

One thing that hasn't always been clear is when an expressway is a DK route that will later be merged into an S route, or when the expressway is already signed as an S route.

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

As far as I know, all DK routes that have expressway (S) standards are now signed with an S prefix. DK7 near Plonsk is now signed as S7, for instance. This is an expressway that predates the current S-system, but has since been signed as an S-road.

However, there is another grade-separated road class in Poland, called "Klasy GP" (class of accelerated traffic). These can have DK or DW prefixes, or no number at all. Examples are the Trasa Siekierkowska in Warsaw or the Droga Trasa Srednicowa (downtown highway) in Katowice.

Both S-roads and Class GP roads can also be single carriageway roads with improved design standards, such as overpasses en small shoulders, similar to a Swiss Autostrasse for instance.

admin · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:54 pm Post subject:

I had seen that Polish Wikipedia mentioned some expressways as not having the S number (yet?). Am I missing any S routes (besides a couple of the newest ones whose routing I couldn't find)?

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

I think you've missed S12 near Puławy. It's basically the bridge across the Vistula rivers plus some approaches, it's 12,7 km long and it opened in 2008. There is also a small bypass of Piaski part of S12 just east of Lublin.

admin · Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:51 am Post subject:

From Polish Wikipedia:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droga_ekspresowa_S12_%28Polska%29&twu=1

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

The Puławy bypass (S12) seems to be signed as DK12 indeed. I've been browsing through a thread with 2,800 posts on the Polish subforum of Skyscrapercity, and I haven't found a single photo saying it's S12.

It's also currently not more than a bridge across the Wisła river that happens to have an exit at either side. The 4-lane divided section is no more than 3 km long.

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

28 km of S3 (interchange Klucz (A6) to Pyrzyce) opened today.

admin · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 11:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reminder, and the map in the SSC [PL] thread was handy.

Do you know if A6/S3 is cosigned now? I've assumed it is.

admin · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:30 pm Post subject:

I found pics of an S25 on new-looking signs on S5 on the south side of Bydoszcz. (I need to train my fingers to type "szcz" on the first try.) I think S25 is nothing more than a short multiplex with S5 between S10 and Bydgoszcz. I guess that when a DK route like DK25 is concurrent with an S route like S5, they both get the S.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=58521345&postcount=4706

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

I think it's an error, there is no such thing as an S25.

admin · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:44 pm Post subject:

S6 Utska bypass to open on Oct. 25/26.
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D188024%26page%3D43&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhjlepm6ZFBwiJ7pOjjuVnyHRsBxAA

Hobbyists are keeping track of upcoming new alignments:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.pyjter.cal.pl/&twu=1

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

A section of A1 opened on December 15th, from Bełk to Żory. It was planned to open it all the way to Świerklany, but flooding postponed its planned opening to early 2011.

ChrisZwolle · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Zwolle, Netherlands

Two more motorway sections opened on December 30th;

* A8 (labeled as S8 I believe) between Magnice (DK8) and A4 interchange (~6 km)
* S3 between Mysliborz and Gorzow Wielkopolski (27 km)