Expressway S8 (Poland)


Expressway S8 or express road S8 is a major road in Poland which connects Wrocław via Łódź and Warsaw to Białystok. The whole road is about long. Construction of the last fragment finished in October 2019.
Originally, the road was to continue on to the border with Lithuania, but in 2009, the plans were changed and currently the S61 will branch off S8 and go to the border. The S8 section from Warsaw to S61 serves as part of Via Baltica.
In September 2019, it was announced that an extension of S8 from Wrocław to Kłodzko was added to the plans and will be constructed in the future.
The upgrade is part of a European plan to fund express roads in Poland.

S8 in Warsaw

S8 runs through Warsaw and is part of its network of bypass roads. Various fragments were completed between 2010 and 2015. It was constructed mostly as an upgrade of the city's existing inner highways and as such might be considered not fully meeting the definition of a bypass as it serves both the transit and local district traffic at the same time, in particular large traffic jams form on it every day during rush hours.