You can read this article in 3 minutesBartosz Wawryszuk construction of the D11 motorway will begin in Královec The section between Trutnov and the Polish border is expected to be completed by 2027 and will connect to the Polish S3 expressway The start of construction was delayed for several months due to disputes over the contractor selection The Polish company Budimex SA and a Czech-Slovak-Hungarian consortium led by MI Roads of the Metrostav Group competed for the contract the media reported that construction had stalled All complications have since been resolved in record time,” wrote Martin Kupka The Minister emphasised that the 21-kilometre section of the D11 motorway represents the largest road contract in the history of the Czech Roads and Motorways Directorate (RSD) and three level crossings will be built between Trutnov and the Polish border Czech media have highlighted that no other motorway of such engineering complexity has ever been built in the country The first step will be the construction of a three-kilometre section between Královec and Bernartice the expressway currently allows access to the Lubawka junction will be opened when the D11 section in the Czech Republic is completed “This is an extremely demanding project and the largest RSD order in decades It’s crucial to maximise the remaining time before winter We need to start construction as soon as possible and we are now providing RSD with all the necessary support,” said Zdenek Ludvik The Czech Roads and Motorways Directorate is also preparing the second missing section of the D11 motorway between Jaromer and Trutnov the tender for this contract will be announced later this year with construction expected to begin next year most of the S3 route has already been completed the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways opened the section of the expressway between the Bolków and Kamienna Góra Północ junctions The S3 section between Świnoujście and Troszyn in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship is still under construction and is expected to be operational by the end of 2024 Once the Świnoujście-Troszyn section is finished a modern transport route will span Poland’s western border connecting the ports of Świnoujście and Szczecin to southern Poland and the Czech Republic the route will extend all the way to Prague forming a vital link between Poland and its southern neighbour Pölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 6.05.2025 Fragrance on the Fly: Why Pocket Perfumes Are Perfect for Airplane TravelSponsored Article 6.05.2025 Silniční propojení České republiky a Polska nebo dopravní situace v oblasti u hranic Hlavně o tom hovořili český ministr dopravy Martin Kupka a jeho polský protějšek Andrzej Adamczyk během cesty po příhraničním regionu Společně si také prohlédli stavbu rychlostní silnice S3 u polské Lubawky a v Trutnově jednali se starosty obcí kterých se týká plánované dokončení dálnice D11 Ředitelství silnic a dálnic (ŘSD) zprovoznilo 9 září obchvat Jaroměře na silnici I/33 v Královéhradeckém kraji Práce na 6,5 kilometru dlouhé stavbě stály 689 milionů Kč bez DPH Obchvat navazující na část dálnice D11 Smiřice – Jaroměř odvede tranzitní dopravu z Jaroměře Na silnici I/33 plánuje ŘSD ještě letos začít stavět také obchvat Náchoda Pokračování Pražského okruhu mezi Běchovicemi a dálnicí D1 získalo pravomocné územní rozhodnutí V celé 12,6 kilometru dlouhé trase budoucí dálnice může nyní Ředitelství silnic a dálnic začít vykupovat pozemky a chystat žádost o stavební povolení Ředitelství silnic a dálnic dnes zahájilo výstavbu silnice I/36 Časy – Holice Nová komunikace bude plnit nejen funkci silnice I ale také dálničního přivaděče z nové úseku D35 ve směru na Holice K provozování webu a analýze návštěvnosti používáme soubory cookies. Procházením webových stránek jste srozuměni s tím, jak se soubory cookies nakládáme. Kliknutím na odkaz zjistíte více o souborech cookies jak je používáme a jak je povolit či zakázat Nov 24, 2023 | Business, Society has won a €465 million contract to build a new stretch of motorway in the Czech Republic The project will also involve connecting the Czech highway with one in Poland helping to create a transport route linking Prague with Polish ports and the Baltic states Budimex announced on Wednesday that it had been selected by the Czech roads and highways directorate to build part of the D11 motorway between the town of Trutnov and the Polish-Czech border The value of the tender is 11.35 billion koruna (2.03 billion zloty ze przetarg za blisko 2 mld zł na budowę autostrady w Czechach wygrywa polski Budimex … budować będzie drogę, która połączy się z polską S3. Duży krok dla budowy połączeń 🇵🇱🇨🇿, ale i polskich portów! https://t.co/hE1W0eqtwM — Jakub Jakóbowski (@J_Jakobowski) November 22, 2023 had announced that work on the 21 km section of road was due to begin on 19 December and should be completed by 2027 within 18 months Budimex will have to hand over a 3 km section connecting the Polish border town of Lubawka with the existing national road in the Czech Republic the D11 highway will run from the border to Prague But the Czechs still also need to build a section of the road between Trutnov and the town of Jaromer including completed sections in (green line) and planned sections (dotted black line) Kupka said that Poland’s successful expansion of its road network in recent years is an “inspiration” for the Czechs He noted how it had “visibly contributed to and stimulated other types of economic activity as well as improving quality of life for people in Poland” added that the firm’s “Polish experience allows us to feel confident…about our expansion into the Czech market” which has been preceded by two years of preparatory work The Polish firm has ambitious plans in the Czech Republic It has also submitted a bid for a tender to work on a section of the D35 motorway in a project worth around 3.5 billion koruna There has been a boom in the number of Czech tourists coming to Poland for their summer holidays Visitors from the landlocked Czech Republic are in particular heading to the beaches of Poland’s Baltic coast https://t.co/tbvSWxa0wv — Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) July 12, 2023 Budimex began work on its first road construction project in Slovakia reports news website Rynek Inkfrastruktury eventually providing a connection from Prague to the Polish Baltic port cities of Szczecin and Świnoujście That link is part of the even longer European E65 route which stretches from Malmö in Sweden down to Chania in Greece the D11 is also part of the E67 route connecting Prague with Helsinki via Wrocław and Warsaw in 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while the shorter TS-32 is estimated at 320 metres “The contractor has exceeded 50% advancement of boring,” said the General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA) in a press release on Wednesday The GDDKiA said that the two tunnels constituted the most important element of the S3 roadworks with an estimated cost of 1.5 billion zloty (€336 million) is being led by PORR SA of Warsaw partnered with PORR Bau GmbH of Vienna The entire S3 expressway from Bolków to Lubawka is estimated to cost almost 2.5 billion zloty and is being co-financed by the European Union PORR confirmed in a statement that the 2,300-metre tunnel would be the longest non-urban tunnel drilled through rock in Poland The tunnel will make it possible to cut through the Kaczawskie and Wałbrzyskie Mountains on the S3 The full road will run from Świnoujscie on the Baltic Sea down to the border with the Czech Republic Source: S3 road plan, October 2014 (Sliwers/Wikimedia Commons, under CC BY 3.0) The longer TS-26 tunnel will be made up of two main aisles for traffic with two lanes each – the left (east) one will be 2,301.88 metres long and the right (west) will be 2,272.20 metres long These have been 52.7% and 50.1% completed respectively as of 23 August That puts the tempo of boring of both aisles at 252 running metres per month with the tunnel’s construction set to be completed in the first half of 2022 The entire tunnel project will be completed by the second quarter of 2023 The longer tunnel is being built using the New Austrian tunnelling method (NATM) of sequential excavation which is better suited to the large cross-section of the tunnel and its length There will also be eight transverse evacuation passages and one emergency passage in the middle of the tunnel Spat over Vistula Spit: Poland ploughs on with canal despite concerns from green activists and EU Main image credit: GDDKiA/Facebook Maria Wilczek is deputy editor of Notes from Poland [email protected] Getting from Prague to Poland could become a lot faster in the future The Czech Railway Administration (SŽ) is planning a 350 km/h high-speed train route to the neighboring country This will be the fourth of five planned high-speed lines that have entered the feasibility study phase The first section of the route to Poland would run parallel to the D11 motorway from Prague to Hradec Králové six options to the reach the Polish border are being evaluated The Railway Administration (SŽ) announced earlier this month that it was holding a competition to find a contractor to prepare a CZK 20 million feasibility study for the route from Prague to Hradec Králové to Wrocław The study will evaluate the project’s economic impact and propose the most suitable routes Six options for the section of the route from Hradec Králové to Wrocław will be evaluated There are three places where the rail line can enter Poland SŽ spokeswoman Radka Pistoriusová told daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) that the route would have to reach Poland at one of three border points: Královec / Lubawka Meziměstí / Mieroszów or Petříkovice / Okrzeszyn Two of the six route options will follow existing railway lines The first links Hradec Králové to the Polish border at Královec and the second crosses the Polish border at Meziměstí the Railway Administration counts on modernizing parts of the existing route so that trains can reach 250 km/h The other four options consider completely new routes crossing into Poland at Petříkovice or near Královec These routes will be considered for either passenger-only service or mixed passenger and freight service The portion of the high-speed route between Prague and Hradec Králové is more clear where a high-speed rail pilot project is already planned SŽ’s Pistoriusová told MfD the feasibility study would take 18 months and then territorial development principles in the individual regions would need to be updated The route construction should begin in 2025 with a pilot section between Prague and Poříčany in the Kolín district Subsequent construction on the section between Hradec Králové and Poland is expected around 2040 the basic network of five high-speed lines will cost about CZK 650 billion The costs of other planned high-speed rail lines have risen dramatically after feasibility studies were conducted the Railway Administration is not commenting on the estimated cost of the Prague to Poland route until it has more information Czech Railways (ČD) since 2005 has had high-speed routes using Italian-made Pendolino trains but these only reach a top speed of 237 km/h using existing tracks Critics say that the trains really shouldn’t be billed as high-speed because they lack dedicated tracks and the speeds aren’t comparable to other services Pendolinos currently operate on a route between Františkovy Lázně and Bohumín in the Czech Republic and then on to Košice Your morning coffee deserves a great companion. 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