Friday 22 April 2011

I cross two unfinished bridges

Regular readers will have read about the manifold construction projects going on in Warsaw right now. The biggest in Warsaw's Deep South is the so-called 'Elka' - the 'L' shaped expressway (S79 down from Sasanki to the S2 Berlin to Moscow route). Crossing the Elka will be two new bridges; both now span the unfinished expressway, neither are fully open.

Above: the bridge connecting ul. Cybernetyki with ul. 17 Stycznia. The westbound lane is now open to traffic; I'm crossing it eastbound on my bicycle on the closed-off hard shoulder. The bridge will be finally completed when a land dispute with the factory in the background is settled.

Above: and finally - I cross the S2 on the new viaduct carrying ul. Poloneza over it. One day soon I don't know when you can point your car down that asphalt and drive all the way to the Belarusian border non-stop along an expressway or motorway.

Above: ul. Poloneza - the ramp coming down from the bridge. It's still not complete - it needs to be raised another half a metre or so to match up to the road surface atop the bridge.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Easter to you and your family, my dear author of the blog W-wa Jeziorki. :-)
Please enjoy beauty of the tapestry "The Ressurection of Christ" which I could see and admire when I was in Rome in 2008.
I love how you describe our beloved Warsaw. Thanks for everything; for your words and your photos.
Be well.

Anonymous said...

Oh, sorry I forgot about the link ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelon71/5645131821/in/photostream

Anonymous said...

Or simply the address of my photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelon71/

Michael Dembinski said...

@ Jel:

Thanks for the best wishes, thanks for all your supportive comments, and for the link to your flikr site. Do you have a blog?

Anonymous said...

My Flickr site and my wordpress blog are connected. I write in Polish. My notes are rather personal.
http://jelon71.wordpress.com/
Have a great Easter weekend!