imported>Boredintheevening: clean up, removed stub tag, typo(s) fixed: 2020-2021 → 2020–2021

2025-02-14T18:02:07Z

clean up, removed stub tag, typo(s) fixed: 2020-2021 → 2020–2021

New page

{{Short description|Road in Poland}}
{{Infobox road
|country = POL
|type = S
|route = 6
|map = NowaMapaS6.svg
|e-road=[[European route E28|E28]]
|e-road-shield=[[File:E28-PL.svg|50px]]
|length_km=217.2
|length_round=1
|length_notes={{convert|147.7|km|0|abbr=on}} under construction
|direction_a=West
|terminus_a=[[Image:A6-PL.svg|20px]] [[A6 autostrada (Poland)|A6]] near [[Szczecin-Goleniów "Solidarność" Airport]]
|junction=[[Image:S11-PL.svg|20px]] [[Expressway S11 (Poland)|S11]] near [[Kołobrzeg]] (planned)<br/>
[[Image:S7-PL.svg|20px]] [[Expressway S7 (Poland)|S7]] near [[Gdańsk]]
|direction_b=East
|terminus_b=[[Image:A1-PL.svg|20px]] [[A1 autostrada (Poland)|A1]] south of [[Gdańsk]]
|regions=
|cities=[[Szczecin]], [[Gdynia]], [[Gdańsk]]
|previous_type = S
|previous_route = 5
|next_type = S
|next_route = 7
}}
'''Expressway S6''' (in Polish ''droga ekspresowa S6'') is a [[highways in Poland|Polish highway]] which has been planned to run from the [[A6 autostrada (Poland)|A6 autostrada]] near [[Szczecin]], through [[Goleniów]] in [[West Pomeranian Voivodeship|West Pomerania]] to [[Gdańsk]], parallel to the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic coast]], forming the main connection between Gdańsk and [[Szczecin]].
[[File:Expressway S6 in Poland 2003 ubt.jpeg|thumb|left|Obwodnica Trójmiejska]]

As of 2024, the sections from [[Szczecin]] to [[Koszalin]] (including the Koszalin bypass) and from [[Bożepole Wielkie]] to [[Gdańsk]] are open. The remaining part from [[Koszalin]] to [[Bożepole Wielkie]] is under construction, which includes adding the second carriageway to the existing single-carriageway bypass of [[Słupsk]].

Upon completion of the ongoing contracts, scheduled for late 2025 and 2026, A6/S6 will be open on its entire intended route from the [[Germany|German]] border to [[Gdańsk]]. Later, a new route of S6 will be constructed to form the western bypass of [[Szczecin]], providing a parallel alternative to the existing route of A6 and S6 south-east of Szczecin.

== History ==
After [[World War I]], the [[Weimar Republic|German]] ''HaFraBa'' association had already set up plans to build an ''[[German Autobahnen|Autobahn]]'' along the route from [[Berlin]] through the [[Polish Corridor]], to the [[Free City of Danzig]] and [[East Prussia]] (today informally known as [[Berlinka]]). The construction was pushed by the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] authorities after 1933 as an extraterritorial ''[[Reichsautobahn]]'' across the [[Polish Corridor]] of prewar Poland further south than the modern S6 freeway has been planned for, but the road was never completed.

The first section of S6 built was the ''[[Obwodnica Trójmiejska]]'' ([[Tricity, Poland|Tricity]] Bypass) from Gdańsk to [[Gdynia]], which is {{convert|38.6|km|abbr=on}} long, followed by the section between Szczecin and Goleniów, both in the 1970s. The next part of S6 to be opened was {{convert|16.3|km|abbr=on}} bypass of [[Słupsk]] that was completed in October 2010.<ref>[http://www.gddkia.gov.pl/article/oddzialy/gddkia_gdansk/article.php/id_item_tree/7ed36acde3cb932907d7c58cc6e6e86c/id_art/f84e1ed631c05268420c6a13fb6faea7 www.gddkia.gov.pl]{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The bypass of [[Nowogard]] was completed in December 2011, with the rest of the section between Szczecin and Koszalin open by 2019.

In July 2010, the route between Goleniów and Słupsk was finalised. It will be about {{convert|180|km|abbr=on}} long and pass just south of [[Kołobrzeg]] and then north of [[Koszalin]].<ref name="gs07">Article in Glos Szczecinski [http://www.gs24.pl/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100714/REGION/880830576 „Szóstka” z Goleniowa do Słupska będzie ekspresowa i przez Kołobrzeg]</ref> The road will be a [[dual carriageway]], with 27 interchanges and 130 viaducts, with about 20% of it overlapping the current route of [[National road 6 (Poland)|National Road 6]] (DK6).<ref name="gs07"/> Doubts about financing made construction not expected to start before 2020,<ref>[http://wyborcza.pl/55,75248,10290117,,,,10290248.html Rząd szykuje się na ograniczenie budowy dróg],</ref> but the schedule was later accelerated. The tenders for design-build contracts on the section between Goleniów and Koszalin were announced in August 2014, with expected completion around 2018.

==Sections==
{| class="wikitable"
|- valign=top align=left
! Expressway section
! Length
! Constructed
! Note
|- valign=top
| Szczecin Kołbaskowo - Goleniów Północ
| 51 km
|
| bgcolor="#B3B7FF" |Western bypass of Szczecin, under tender.
|- valign=top
| Szczecin Rzęśnica (end of A6) - Goleniów Północ
|20 km
|1976-1979
| bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Reconstructed to modern standard in 2020–2021, overlaps with [[Expressway S3 (Poland)|S3]] on this section.
|- valign=top
| Goleniów Północ- Nowogard Zachód
|19.2 km
|2015–2019
| bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Opened April 2019
|- valign=top
| Nowogard Zachód - Nowogard Wschód
|9.4  km
|2010–2011
| bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Opened December 2011
|- valign=top
| Nowogard Wschód- [[Płoty]]
|20 km
| rowspan="5" |2015–2019
| rowspan="5" bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Opened November 2019
|- valign="top"
| Płoty- [[Kiełpino, Gryfice County|Kiełpino]]
|14.6 km
|- valign="top"
| Kiełpino - [[Kołobrzeg]] Zachód
|24 km
|- valign="top"
| Kolobrzeg Zachód- [[Ustronie Morskie]]
|14.7 km
|- valign="top"
| Ustronie Morskie - Koszalin
|24.2 km
|- valign=top
| Koszalin - Słupsk
|66.1 km
|2022–2025
| bgcolor="#FFCBCB" |Construction
|- valign=top
| Słupsk bypass
|16.3 km
|2008–2010
| bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Opened in October 2010 as single carriageway with space to add a second one in the future. Second carriageway in construction.
|- valign=top
| Słupsk - Bożepole Wielkie
|64.5 km
|2021–2026
| bgcolor="#FFCBCB" |Construction
|- valign=top
| Bożepole Wielkie - Gdynia
|41 km
|2019–2022
| bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Opened in December 2022
|- valign=top
| [[Obwodnica Trójmiejska|Tricity 1st Bypass]]
|38.6 km
|1973–2008
| bgcolor="#B9FFC5" |Built in stages starting in 1973
|-
|Tricity 2nd Bypass (near Żukowo)
|32.7 km
|2021–2025
| bgcolor="#FFCBCB" |Construction
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
Photo galleries for the construction of sections S6 between Koszalin and Gdańsk
*[https://www.s6-obwodnica-slupska.pl/galeria-2/ Słupsk bypass]
*[https://s6-obwodnica-slupska-bobrowniki.pl/galeria-2/ Słupsk - Bobrowniki]
*[https://s6-bobrowniki-skorowo.pl/galeria-2/ Bobrowniki - Skórowo]
*[https://s6-skorowo-lesnice.pl/gallery/images/ground-level-shots Skórowo - Leśnice]
*[https://s6-lesnice-bozepole.pl/galeria-2/ Leśnice - Bożepole Wielkie]

==See also==
*[[A6 autostrada (Poland)]]
*[[Highways in Poland]]

{{Commons category|Expressway S6 (Poland)}}

{{Polish Expressways}}

[[Category:Expressways in Poland]]
[[Category:Proposed roads in Poland]]

Expressway S6 (Poland) - Revision history

imported>Boredintheevening: clean up, removed stub tag, typo(s) fixed: 2020-2021 → 2020–2021