A18 autostrada (Poland)
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| Length: | 7 km (4 mi) 78 km (48 mi) planned |
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 Bundesautobahn 15 at border with Germany at Forst-Bademeusel/Olszyna
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 A4 motorway near Krzyżowa
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| Major cities: | Żary | |||
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Autostrada A18 is a short planned motorway in southwestern Poland which is to run from the Polish/German border at Olszyna/Forst-Bademeusel and the German Bundesautobahn 15 to the Polish Autostrada A4. The highway is a part of the European route E36 and the Pan-European corridor IIIA from Berlin to Wrocław.
After completion, the A18 should be 78 km (48 mi) long. The stretch currently opened and signed as A18 from Golnice to the A4 is 7 km (4.3 mi) long. The remaining 71 km (44 mi) currently exists as a dual-carriageway road not up to motorway standards and not officially signed as such. Before August 2009, the signed A18 was 17 km long; part of it was then re-signed as A4, after the completion of a missing stretch of that motorway. Full modernization to motorway standard along the entire length is not expected to be completed before 2020.
The motorway had its beginning as a single-carriageway part of Reichsautobahn 9 (Berlin-Breslau) built by Germany in the 1930s, completed between 1936 and 1938. This route had all the features of an autobahn built according to the standards of the time, including all the exits, viaducts and bridges, except that only a single carriageway was actually constructed along most of its length, and space was left for constructing the second carriageway at a later time. The road existed in this state until the early 1990s, when the first 7 km (4.3 mi) at its eastern end were rebuilt with new concrete carriageways. In 1995 the 7 km stretch at the western end was modernised with the addition of a second carriageway.
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