GDKKiA reported that the last of the three fragments of Via Baltica in the Warmian-Masurian province. The length of the new section of the expressway is about 23 km.
The S61 expressway passes through three voivodships (Mazowieckie, Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian) and will eventually be 220 km long. In the region of the island of Mazowiecka, it connects with the S8 expressway (Wroclaw - Warsaw - Bialystok) and passes through Lomza, Elk, Suwalki to the border with Lithuania. It is part of the Via Baltica international route connecting Poland with the Baltic countries.
23 km from Elk junction Poludne to Vysokoe
The road workers have just put into operation the last of the three sections of the S61 expressway, implemented in the province of Warmia and Mazury, with a total length of more than 66 km. This is a section from the Elk Poludne interchange to the village of Vysokoye (Kalinovo interchange), about 23 km long. We remind you that at the end of 2021, the section S61 Vysokoe - Rachki was put into operation, and in September last year, the construction of a highway between Shchuchin and Elk Poludne was completed.
“Today we are opening another section of the international communication Via Baltica, connecting our country with the Baltic countries, along the route Elk – Vysokoe. This means that drivers can now use the S61 expressway from Kolno near Lomza to the Lithuanian border and from the section from Snyadovo to the Lomza-Poludne junction. Andrzej Adamczyk, Minister of Infrastructure, said.
Best access from Elk
The newly built 23 km section of the S61 expressway has a two-lane section with access roads. Separate local roads have also been repaired and environmental protection devices have been built. As part of the investment, Interchange Elk-Vskhod and 24 engineering structures. The investment included the construction of 19.5 km of the S61 road and 3.4 km of the S16 road from the Elk-Vskhod junction to the junction with the Elk ring road.
The concrete surface is not random
The road surface in section S61 is made of cement concrete, and in section S16 it is made of asphalt concrete and is adapted for heavy traffic with a surface load of 11.5 tons per axle. This is not a coincidence. The S61 expressway is also of strategic importance as it leads to the Isthmus of Suwałki, a narrow 65 km stretch located on the border between Poland, Lithuania and Russia, the only land connection between Lithuania (and therefore Latvia and Estonia) and Poland.
Expensive investment
The contractor for the almost 23-kilometer section of the S61 highway from the Elk Poludne junction to the town of Vysokoe, worth PLN 685.9 million, is the consortium Trakcja SA Warszawa (leader), Mostostal Warszawa and Przedsiębiorstwo Eksploatacji Ulic i Mostów Białystok. Construction of the S61 expressway Shchuchin - Budzisko, section The Shchuchin-Rachki project is funded by the European Union under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program. The amount of EU co-financing is 379,583,347 euros and covers six tasks under the S61 Shchuchin - Budzisko Expressway Construction Project.
We know when the construction of S61 will be completed
The S61 expressway is being slowly completed, with a total length of 220 km. In the Podlaskie Voivodeship, drivers already use more than 121 km of the section. Currently, work is underway on the construction of the last section of the S61 - from the Lomza-Zakhod interchange to the Kolno interchange (12.92 km). The Contractor should put it into operation on the basis of the passability of one carriageway in the middle of 2024, and in the middle of the next - in the standard of a two-lane expressway along its entire length. In the Mazowieckie Voivodeship, the construction of the S61 section from the Ostrov-Mazowiecka Pulnoc junction (at S8) to Sniadow continues. It has a length of 19.5 km and will be available to drivers in October this year.
Source: Wprost
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