Expressway S2 (Poland)


Expressway S2 is a short highway in Poland, serving as the southern section of the Warsaw Express Ring Road. Conceptually forming one continuous route with motorway A2, it was initially planned as a part of it, however after local Warsaw residents objected to the plans of an inner-city motorway, the proposed road was downgraded to an expressway.
As of 2019, about one half of the road has been built, while the other half is scheduled to be completed in August 2020.

History of construction

Construction of the first phase of the project was divided into two sections. Work on a 3.9 km stretch between Warszawa Lotnisko junction and Puławska junction at the eastern end of this phase of the project began in September 2009, while construction of the other, 11.1 km long section between the western Konotopa junction and Warszawa Lotnisko junction, began in the Summer of 2010.
Both sections were scheduled to be completed in mid 2012 in time for the Euro 2012 football championships, however this deadline was not achieved. The S2 Expressway was eventually opened in a number of stages, beginning in the west at Konotopa junction in August 2013, with further sections opening in September 2013, linking the road with expressway S79 leading to Chopin International Airport. The final part of this phase of the project up to Puławska junction was opened in late September 2013.
The second phase of the project will take the expressway S2 east of Puławska across the Vistula river, through the new bridge, connecting the route with the eastern part of the Warsaw Express Ring Road and the continuation of the motorway A2 eastwards. The design-and-build tender for this section was announced on December 18 2013, with completion date specified as 41 months from the date contract is signed. The contract was signed in December, 2015, with completion planned for August, 2020.
The contracts are: