In this topic overview, important highways are in Polandfor which your own travel guides are useful are listed. Shorter routes that cannot be found in this list do not have their own route article. They are not relevant as independent travel routes.
A complete overview of all Polish motorways is in the Wikipedia article Motorway (Poland) to find.
background
history
A first motorway network was planned in the Second Polish Republic. The outbreak of World War II thwarted the realization of the plans.
construction
The motorways are usually built with at least two lanes in each direction and separated by a median. The junctions are designed to be free of intersections, the driveways and exits have deceleration and acceleration lanes so that the flowing traffic is affected as little as possible. The interchanges within a motorway are numbered, normally this starts at one end of the motorway with 1 and is continuously incremented, including motorway junctions and triangles.
Facilities
On the highways there are Emergency facilities such as emergency telephones and emergency parking bays on the hard shoulder. The hard shoulder is usually provided for breakdowns or emergency stops, hazard warning lights must be switched on and a warning triangle must be set up at a reasonable distance. There are emergency bays where there is insufficient hard shoulder and often in construction site areas.
Furthermore there is Service facilities, such as rest stops and gas stations as well as various well-developed parking lots The rest stops are open 24 hours a day and often have facilities for the disabled and children's playgrounds as well as telephone / internet facilities.
Traffic rules
Motorways may only be used by motor vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists are not permitted. The maximum speed is 140 km / h.
traffic
Traffic information
In addition to the public broadcasters with their radio stations, many private radio stations also provide current information on traffic jams and obstructions on the streets and highways.
construction sites
Construction sites are an important factor in traffic jams because of the traffic obstructions, construction sites are also one of the hotspots of accidents on the motorways and are therefore dangerous. Since work on the pavement is not possible in the winter months due to the low temperatures, the season for the motorway construction sites is usually from April to October.
National main routes
- Autostrada A1 - South-North direction from Jastrzębie-Zdrój to Danzig
- Autostrada A2 - West-East direction from Slubice to Warsaw and in the future to the Belarusian border
- Autostrada A4 - West-East direction from Zgorzelec to Przemyśl
- Autostrada A6 at Szczecin
- Autostrada A8 at Wroclaw
- Autostrada A18 at Bolesławiec
