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Metropolis Open to the World
ROAD TRANSPORT – ON THE GOOD COURSE
The Metropolitan Area and the region lie exactly on the convergence of international
trunk transport corridors running from Scandinavia and North-Eastern Europe
to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in one direction, and from the northern
part of Western Europe to Eastern Europe.
The grid of the existing international and national roads links the region to:
Southern Europe via the Czech Republic and Slovakia (E-75, E-77, and national roads
Nos. 1 and 7), Eastern Europe via Kaliningrad (E-22, national road No. 22), and Western
Europe via Germany (E-28, national road No. 6). The network of regional and local roads
serves transport within the region and metropolitan area. The length of all roads
within the voivodship system adds up to nearly 19 thousand km.
Support from the European Union has contributed substantially to a number of road
projects recently completed in the metropolis. They all facilitate transit and the residents’
errands within the agglomeration. The list of the projects includes, e.g.:
• modernisation of road No. 7, section Gdańsk – Elbląg,
• construction of the last stretch of the Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Route and Janka
Wiśniewskiego Street, which link the port and industrial estates of Gdynia with the
express road S-6 (national road No. 6),
• construction of the Różowa Road in Gdynia,
• modernisation of Marynarki Polskiej Street to facilitate access to the inner port area
and the ferry terminal,
• modernisation of the road system leading to the new DCT container terminal and
the industrial estates in the eastern part of the Gdańsk port,
• redevelopment of the crossing of Słowackiego, Grunwaldzka, and Kościuszki Streets
in Gdańsk,
• modernisation of national road No. 1, section Pruszcz Gdański-Pszczółki,
• modernisation of road No. 6 between Reda and Wejherowo.
The A1 motorway in construction is of strategic importance for the development of
the Metropolitan Area. Linking the region to southern Poland and Europe, the road
will offer the shortest route from Scandinavia down south the continent and onwards
towards the East, along the VI European transport corridor. The motorway is already in
operation over an almost 100 km long section from the junction in Różyny, the Commune
of Pruszcz Gdański, to the locality of Nowe Marzy near Grudziądz in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian
Voivodship. The entire length of the motorway, which will continue
across Toruń, via Łódź, Częstochowa, and Katowice, up to the Polish-Czech border,
is to be ready in 2011.
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The A1 motorway has improved transport in the region.
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