Expressway S6 (Poland)


Expressway S6 is a major road in Poland which has been planned to run from the A6 autostrada in Szczecin, through Goleniów in West Pomerania to Gdańsk parallel to the Baltic coast, forming the main connection between Gdańsk and Szczecin.
At present, the only significant section of S6 that has been built is the Obwodnica Trójmiejska from Gdańsk to Gdynia, which is long. Also a part of the S6 is bypass of Słupsk that was completed in October 2010. The bypass of Nowogard was completed in December 2011
In July 2010, the route between Goleniów and Słupsk was finalized - it will be about long and pass just south of Kołobrzeg and then north of Koszalin. 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. Due to doubts about financing, construction was not expected to start before 2020. However, later, the schedule was accelerated. The tenders for design-build contracts on the section between Goleniów and Koszalin were announced in August 2014, with expected completion around 2018. The exact route of S6 between Słupsk and Gdańsk has not yet been determined.
After World War I the German HaFraBa association had already set up plans to build an Autobahn along the route from Berlin, through the Polish Corridor, to the Free City of Danzig and East Prussia. The construction was pushed by the Nazi authorities after 1933 as an extraterritorial Reichsautobahn across the Polish Corridor of pre-World War II Poland further south than the modern S6 freeway has been planned for, however the road was never completed.

Sections of the expressway