Gliwice-Sośnica motorway junction
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| Country: | Poland |
| Voivodeship : | Silesian Voivodeship |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 15 ′ 41 ″ N , 18 ° 43 ′ 21 ″ E |
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| Design type: | Half clover + trumpet |
| Bridges: | 6 (motorway) / 5 (other) |
| Construction year: | 2008-2010 |
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The Gliwice-Sośnica motorway junction ( Polish : Węzeł autostradowy Gliwice-Sośnica ) is located south of the Polish city of Gliwice ( German : Gleiwitz ) in the Silesian Voivodeship . It connects the Polish motorways A1 and A4 as well as the national road 44 and is currently the largest motorway junction in Poland .
history
In October 2005 it was decided to locate the entire stretch of the A1 motorway and the motorway junction in the Silesian Voivodeship . Before that, however, a temporary junction was opened under the name Sośnica , which made it possible to exit the newly opened section of the A4 motorway to national road 44 . Then the planning of the A1 autobahn and a three-story junction with no elevation began . On May 30, 2008, the construction contract between GDDKiA and the Greek construction company J&P Avax was signed. In addition to the construction of the motorway junction, which is made up of 17 connecting ramps and 16 bridge structures, the construction of a 2.2 km long and six-lane section of the A1, the six-lane expansion of the A4 and the four-lane expansion of state road 44 over a length of 2.2 Kilometers decided. The construction costs were set at 853 million złoty . Completion was planned for October 2009. With the completion of the section of the A1 to Rybnik , the node was opened on December 23, 2009. All construction work was only finished in July 2010 with the opening of the tunnel along Landesstrasse 44.
Current status
Since September 30, 2011, the junction can be used in all directions.
The following directions are available:
- Motorway A1 in north direction to the motorway junction Pyrzowice and Katowice Airport
- A1 motorway south to the Świerklany junction
- A4 motorway in a westerly direction via Opole , Breslau to the German border
- Motorway A4 in an easterly direction via Katowice to Krakow
- State road 44 in a north-westerly direction to Gliwice
- State road 44 in a south-easterly direction via Tychy to Krakow
Scheme
The motorway junction is made up of half a clover leaf and a trumpet . It consists of 16 bridge structures and is built on three levels. The total length of all connecting ramps and lanes is approximately 33 kilometers.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the construction of the motorway junction. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 (Polish).
- Scheme of the new motorway junction
- Further information on the history of the development of the motorway junction (Polish)
- Photos and information on the construction of the node (Polish; PDF; 526 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The largest motorway junction in Poland completed (Polish, accessed October 13, 2010)
- ↑ a b Piotr Kasprzy: Węzeł Sośnica - klamra górnośląskiego systemu drogowego (Polish; PDF; 430 kB)
- ↑ a b Podpisano umowę na rozbudowę węzła A-4 "Sośnica" w Gliwicach
- ↑ a b Gliwice-Sośnica motorway junction opened (in Polish, accessed on November 5, 2010)
- ↑ J & P-AVAX SA - węzeł Sośnica na finishu ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
