In 2023, 260 km of new roads will be built in Poland. The General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) announces the facilitation of the entrance to Warsaw from the south, the closing of the Łódź bypass and the extension of a section of the expressway that will connect Koszalin and Katowice in the future. “Next year will also see the breaking of another barrier – this time we will exceed the threshold of 5,000 km of expressways in Poland”, announces the GDDKiA.

“We are systematically moving closer to connecting Warsaw and Krakow by expressways”, informs the GDDKiA. Next year it will make two sections of the S7 expressway available to drivers – between Lesznowola and Tarnów and from the border of the Świętokrzyskie and Małopolskie voivodships to Miechów. The former section in particular will shorten travel time and increase travel safety. It will also make it much easier to leave Warsaw for the south, and drivers will have at their disposal around 240 km of expressway from the Warsaw Airport junction, bypassing Radom and Kielce, to the vicinity of Miechów in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

The ring road around Łódź will be completed. The S14 section between Aleksandrów Łódzki and Slowik will be opened to traffic. Thus, Łódź will be the first city in Poland with a full ring road (A1, A2, S8 and S14).  Two long sections of the S11 expressway – nearly 48 km from Koszalin to Bobolice and the nearly 25-km Olesno bypass – will also be completed.

The Polish section of the Via Baltica transport route, linking our country with the Baltic states, will be extended by another nearly 50 km along the S61 expressway. Drivers will be able to use the section at the level of Ełk, which will connect with the previously completed neighbouring sections, leading transit traffic out of the city.

In 2023, the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) is planning to provide drivers with a total of nearly 260 km of new roads, including 49.4 km of motorways, 192.9 km of expressways and 14.2 km of bypasses along national roads.

Adrian Andrzejewski