Autostrada A18 (Poland)

Autostrada A18 in Poland
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 In operation     In construction    In planning
Basic data
Operator:
Start of the street:	Olszyna ( 51 ° 40 ′  N , 14 ° 45 ′  E )
End of street:	Krzyżowa ( 51 ° 20 ′  N , 15 ° 39 ′  E )
Overall length:	75.01 km
of which in operation:	5.57 km
of which under construction:	33.57 km
of which in planning:	37.14 km
Voivodeship :	Lower Silesia Lebus
Requirement for use:	Truck route toll
Development condition:	2 × 2 lanes
The already completely modernized section at Golnice
Course of the road Continue on  → Cottbus , Berlin  (190 m)  Lusatian Neisse Forest (DE) - Olszyna (PL) Lubusz Voivodeship signposted as   (1 / km 1)  Olszyna (km 2)  (km 5)  (km 6)  MOP Trzebiel (Cat. 3) (km 6)  MOP Jagłowice (Cat. 2) (2 / km 10)  Żary Zachód (km 11)  (km 14)  (km 20)  MOP Rościce Południe (cat. 1) (km 20)  MOP Rościce Północ (cat. 1) (km 23)  (3 / km 25)  Żary Południe (km 31)  MOP Wymiarki Południe (Cat. 2) MOP Wymiarki Północ (Cat. 3) (km 34)  (4 / km 38)  Iłowa (km 40)  (km 43)  (km 46)  (km 48)  Lower Silesian Voivodeship (km 50)  (km 53)  (5 / km 54)  Luboszów (km 56)  MOP Świętoszów Północ (Cat. 1) (km 57)  MOP Świętoszów Południe (Cat. 1) (km 59)  (km 62)  (km 63)  (km 65)  (6 / km 71)  Bolesławiec Golnice (km 71)  signposted as   MOP Lipiany (Cat. 2) (7 / km 74)  Krzyżowa   Under construction In planning  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Autostrada A18 ( Polish for "Autobahn A18") is a motorway in Poland . It runs from the Krzyżowa junction , where it branches off the A4 and leads northwest to the German-Polish border near Olszyna in the rural community of Trzebiel . The federal highway 15 begins there . The motorway is 75 kilometers long and is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor  III A.

In 2006, the southern carriageway built as the Reichsautobahn Berlin – Breslau was extended by a northern carriageway over a length of 71 kilometers. The non-modernized southern carriageway is expected to be modernized by 2023; the first 20 km behind the border with Germany are currently under construction.

Until the completion of the modernization, the route will be run as Landesstraße 18 (Polish: Droga krajowa 18 ). The rededication to the A18 should only take place after the conversion work has been completed.

history

Former Reichsautobahn 9 (southern lane, 2012)

Today's A18 was built in the mid-1930s as part of the Reichsautobahn 9 Berlin – Breslau (on the German side, today A13 and A15 ) in what was then German Silesia. The route was single-lane (southern carriageway), although it was already prepared for full expansion (e.g. the bridges were built wider or space was left for the second half of the carriageway). Only the short section from Lipiany (Linden) to today's confluence with the A4 at the Krzyżowa motorway junction was already designed with two lanes.

In 1993, between the Królów exit and the Forst / Olszyna border crossing, the previously non-existent northern carriageway was built in the motorway standard for 9.5 km. The renovation and expansion of the southern carriageway in this section did not take place.

In 1995, the two-sided rehabilitation of the 7 km long section between Golnice ( rural municipality Bolesławiec ) and the Krzyżowa motorway junction , which had previously had two carriageways, followed. Until 2001, this section was part of the A12 , which ran from Golnice to the then transition to the A4 at the Krzywa junction.

From 2004 the continuous construction of the north carriageway of the A18 between Golnice and Królów was pushed ahead. The construction work was divided into 4 sections. The work was completed in mid-2006 and cost around 398 million zlotys .

Sections

section	length	construction time	building-costs	Traffic transfer	annotation
Border crossing DE / PL - Olszyna junction (km 0.633)	00.44 km	- 1936-1938	- -	1993 1938	North carriageway South carriageway Modernization of both lanes planned
Olszyna junction (km 0.633 - km 1.500)	00.87 km	- 2004-2005	- 3 million zloty (1 million euros)	1993 December 20, 2005	North carriageway Modernization of the north carriageway, further modernization planned
		1936-1938	-	1938	South carriageway Modernization of the southern carriageway planned
Olszyna junction (km 1,500) - Żary Zachód junction (km 9,550)	08.05 km	- 2004-2005	- 28 million zlotys (7 million euros)	1993 December 20, 2005	North carriageway Modernization of the north carriageway
		1936-1938	-	1938	South carriageway Modernization of the southern carriageway planned
Żary Zachód junction (km 9,550) - Jędrzychowice (km 11,860)	02.31 km	2004-2006	14 million zlotys (4 million euros)	September 27, 2006	North carriageway
		1936-1938	-	1938	South carriageway Modernization of the southern carriageway planned
Jędrzychowice (km 11,860) - Żary Południe junction (km 24,730)	12.87 km	2004-2006	78 million zlotys (20 million euros)	September 27, 2006	North carriageway
		1936-1938 2019-2022	- 149 million zlotys (37 million euros)	1938 September 2022	South carriageway Modernization of the south carriageway
Żary Południe junction (km 24.730) - Lubieszów (km 33.760)	09.03 km	2004-2006	42 million zlotys (11 million euros)	September 27, 2006	North carriageway
		1936-1938 2019-2022	- 105 million zlotys (26 million euros)	1938 September 2022	South carriageway Modernization of the south carriageway
Lubieszów (km 33,760) - Iłowa junction (km 37,500)	03.74 km	2004-2006	17 million zloty (4 million euros)	September 27, 2006	North carriageway
		1936-1938	-	1938	South carriageway Modernization of the southern carriageway planned
Iłowa junction (km 37,500) - Lubusz / Lower Silesia (km 50,000)	12.50 km	2004-2006	48 million zloty (12 million euros)	November 6, 2006	North carriageway
		1936-1938	-	1938	South carriageway Modernization of the southern carriageway planned
Lubusz / Lower Silesia (km 50,000) - Golnice junction (km 70,899)	20.90 km	2004-2006	83 million zloty (21 million euros)	November 6, 2006	North carriageway
		1936-1938	-	1938	South carriageway Modernization of the southern carriageway planned
Golnice junction (km 70.899) - Krzyżowa junction (km 75.200)	04.3 km	1936-1937 1995-1996	- -	October 17, 1937 1996
Krzyżowa	01.27 km	2007-2009		August 10, 2009
total	75.01 km

Planned sections

South carriageway:

• Olszyna – Golnice (71 km): demolition and rebuilding of the southern lane. The unrealized construction work was planned for the period 2014 to 2020.

South carriageway

section	length	comment
Border crossing - Olszyna	1.1 km	Under construction
Olszyna - Żary Zachód	8.6 km	Under construction
Żary Zachód - Iłowa	27.3 km	Under construction
Iłowa - Golnice	34.0 km

See also

• Autostrada (Poland)

Web links

Commons : Autobahn A18  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ autobahn-online.de
2. ↑ A18 czeka na nową perspektywę. In: rynekinf Infrastruktury.pl. Rynek Infrastruktury, September 10, 2012, accessed January 12, 2020 (Polish).
3. ↑ Elżbieta Pałys: Na S3 dobudowują już tylko MOP-y. Ruszyły prac przy A18. In: rynekinf Infrastruktury.pl. Rynek Infrastruktury, January 11, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 (Polish).
4. ↑ Overview map of all motorways and expressways (GDDKiA)