A2 extension in Poland
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Channel: Alan Heath · 2010 · Travel & Events
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Heaths-History-Page/173472422695696 http://www.ceepackaging.com twitter : @ceepackaging https://www.facebook.com/pages/CEE-Packaging/135108923181666 Here we can see a short film of the extension of the Polish A2 motorway towards the German border at Frankfurt on Oder. In the 1930s Nazi Germany planned a motorway that would link Berlin with territory to the east, The motorway got as far as Frankfurt on Oder but never any further although aeriel photography did show earthworks until a very short time ago. A dual carriageway was built in communist times for a few kilometres from Swiecko. In the lead up to the Olympic games in Moscow in 1980 a section of motorway was built to the west of Konin but if it were meant to link up with Moscow it did not get very far. Intensive construction of the motorway started only in 2001. Out of the planned total length of 610 km, 252 km has been completed. A section of about 150 km (Nowy Tomyśl - Poznań - Września - Konin) has been fully open since 2004. This section is a toll road, with the exception of a short stretch through Poznań which serves as that city's bypass (between the interchanges at Głuchowo and Kleszczewo). An additional 100 km section from Konin to Stryków near Łódź was opened on 26 July 2006. Toll booths are now being installed. A short 4.8 km bypass around Stryków, consisting of a 2 km extension of the A2 and a provisional single carriageway section of future motorway A1, was opened in December 2008, to ease the heavy traffic in that town generated when the motorway reached it. My channel on you tube : http://www.youtube.com/alanheath is one of the most prolific from Poland. I have produced around 1,600 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish and the occasional hint of German and Hebrew. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects Please feel free to ask questions in the public area or to comment on things you disagree with. Sometimes there are mistakes because I speak without preparation. If I see the mistakes myself, I make this clear in the text. Please also leave a star rating! There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine! Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region. Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
