Sunday 7 December 2008

Not a good sign

Across the tracks in Zgorzała, just off ul. Dawidowska (which I reported a few weeks ago as being widened and re-tarmacked), I spot a road sign. There has never been an ul. Sikorki here; this is something entirely new. This dirt track has always been the extension of ul. Kórnicka, across a level crossing. This has been long closed to vehicles, but is there's still an informal footpath crossing here(appropriately signed as such for train drivers). This section of Kórnicka across the tracks formed the border between Warsaw (to the right) and Lesznowola municipality (to the left).

I fear that this new ul. Sikorki may get tarmacked right up to the tracks, and a new level crossing built. If so, the hideous traffic jams up ul. Kórnicka in the mornings will get even worse.

According to this map (found on http://www.emiasto.org/), the road is still called ul. Kórnicka. Click on map to see full size. I've marked this part of Kórnicka in yellow. (Note the rampa is still there, with all its tracks, bottom centre). And according to the minutes of the Lesznowola council (rada gminy), on 25 April 2007, the council passed a motion to approve new street names, one of which was ul. Sikorki. I can't find any other mention of what's intended to happen here. Anyone know? Developments around ul. Dawidowska suggest that the Puławska Bis S7 highway is indeed still a long time coming, as was mentioned on the Polish pages of Skyscrapercity.com, we can wait until 2013-2015 for a meaningful alternative to the awfully congested Puławska.

This time last year:
To Poznań, by rail

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