Autostrada A12 (Poland)
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| Overall length: | 17 km (historical) | |||||||||||||||
| Status: | for  umd  rededicated
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The Autostrada A12 was a motorway in Poland. Until 2001 it ran for 17 kilometers in the Polish Lower Silesian Voivodeship and is now part of the A4 and A18 .
course
The A12 was the western continuation of the A4 motorway from the Krzywa junction , where the then national road 4 in the direction of Zgorzelec branched off from the motorway. The A12 ran from Krzywa in a north-westerly direction via Krzyżowa and Lipiany to the Golnice junction , where it merged into national road 18 towards Olszyna .
history
In 2001, the entire length of the A12 was initially renamed the A18 motorway , analogous to the national road 18 which followed in a north-westerly direction. With the completion of the A4 between Krzyżowa and Zgorzelec, the eastern section of the former A12 between Krzywa and Krzyżowa became part of the now continuous A4, while the western section between Krzyżowa and Golnice still bears the designation A18, which in future will lead to the German border at Olszyna.
The route of the later A12 had already been laid out before the Second World War as part of the planned Reichsautobahn Berlin-Beuthen in what was then German Silesia. Between the Golnice junction (then the Groß Gollnisch junction) and the Lipiany junction (then the Linden junction), the motorway was completed with one lane, and between Lipiany and the Krzywa junction (then the Kreibau junction) with two lanes.