Progress on S79 - for how long?

Above: View of the S79 between the airport junction with the S2 (Węzeł Lotnisko) and the viaduct at ul. Poleczki. Looks like some asphalt is down already, if not the final top surface. In the distance, diggers are busy working. However, local media suggest that if Warsaw's roads department cannot close the top end of ul. Wirażowa to traffic, then the road builder, Teerag-Asdag, cannot continue with work on the stretch between W-wa Okęcie station and ul. Sasanki to the north.

Until that impasse is resolved, and with work slowing down because of the weather (daytime high today was -11.4C) a chance to walk along the road and see how things are progressing. Above: What was ul. Wirażowa, looking south. To the right will be the S79, to the left, the Warsaw to Radom railway line.

Above: Looking north. To the left the course of the S79, beyond it Runway 15/33 of Okęcie airport. Drivers headed this way in future would have a great view of take offs and landings, although I suspect there will be screens placed alongside the airport to prevent such distractions.

Above: View looking south from the Poleczki viaduct. Work is still happening here, albeit at a slower tempo than during last week, when I observed no fewer than ten excavators digging away while on the train between W-wa Dawidy and W-wa Okęcie. The bus in the centre of the pic is full of workers warming themselves.

On, then, by bus from Poleczki to Puławska, to where the S2 will cross over it. Below: This is ul. Chodzonego, looking east towards Puławska. The S2 will run to the right, between where I'm standing and the railway line to the Metro depot, which crosses over Puławska in the mid-background (yellow bridge just visible). Some large-diameter pipework is waiting to be installed.

Below: The pillars for the viaduct carrying ul. Poloneza over the railway line and over the S2. It's a quarter past three and not a soul on the building site. I want to see the viaduct put up here as quickly as possible as this my route from home to Platan Park most mornings.

I walk over 11km today, getting home half an hour after sunset. My winter clothing and footwear pass the test.