Expressway S74 (Poland)
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Province:
- Łódź
- Holy Cross
- Subcarpathian
- In construction
- In planning
The Droga ekspresowa S74 ( ger. for, expressway S74 ') is a finished part or predominantly planned expressway in Poland. You should connect Sulejow and Nisko together. The route will run from Kielce along the existing national road 74 to Opatów, then the National Highway 9 to Lipnik follow in order to finally perform on the National Road 77 to Nisko, where it crosses the being planned expressway S19. The total length of nearly 200 kilometers. This could still enlarge, as the extensions of the road from Sulejow in the area of Łódź and Nisko are not excluded to the Ukrainian border.
Planning history
The connection between Kielce (S7) and Nisko (S19 ) is included for the first time in 1976 in the network planning. In the network of 1985, the range has been extended until after Piotrków. The route is then unchanged included in the plans until 1996. In the network planning of 2001, the route is no longer included. In the planning of 2003, the route is included in a modified form. The track is now run by Sulejow and called S74.
Completed sections
Kielce - Cedzyna
This 6.8 km long section of Kielce leads out to the east. In Cedzyna the street ends at a roundabout with the National Road 74 Of the 6.8 kilometers located 2.7 km by road within, and 4.1 km outside the urban area of Kielce, so that the section is one of the main roads of the city. It is implemented as the first part of the S74 and signposted. The expressway has two carriageways and two lanes. The construction contract with a consortium consisting of the company Przedsiębiorstwa Robót Inżynieryjnych " Fart ", Mostow - Łódź and Fardub Consulting, was signed on 24 April 2009. It was agreed a 30 -month construction period, which included the completion of the planning documents. Construction has officially begun on 17 June 2009. The completion date had been set for 24 November 2011. On November 27, the construction was declared over. However, delayed the arrangements, so that the traffic handover on 17 December 2011. Construction costs amounted to 285 million zloty.
Planned sections
Further plans
On 23 July 2008 took place in the Polish Ministry of Transport discussions take place with the change of plans for the S74 in the region of Łódź. So far, it is planned to make the S74 open out at Sulejow in the also in the planning stages S12. In changing now discussed the route of Paradyż to Tomaszów to be performed and then further, to reach here in the direction of Łódź for better integration of the A1 Gdansk Gliwice and S8 Warsaw Wroclaw. The public hearing was held early February 2011 with the idea of the possible range variants of the S12 and S74. In April 2011, was based on the results of the public consultation, the initial planning stage, the corridor study ( pl.: Studies Korytarzowe ) started. Their primary purpose is to determine the possible corridors of the alignments of S12 and S74 and their linking with the other public road network. The continuation of the S74 is therefore not yet a part of the proposed motorway and expressway network of government.