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| Basic information |
| Length |
planned: 670 km
built: about 380 km |
| Voivodeships |
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Opole Voivodeship, Silesian Voivodeship,
Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Subcarpathian Voivodeship |
| Map |
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| Route |
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German A4 |
 (1) |
Border crossing PL-DE
Jędrzychowice |
| (2) |
Zgorzelec (DK4) |
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| (3) |
Godzieszów (planned) |
| (4) |
Wykroty (planned) (DK4) |
| (5) |
Bolesławiec (planned) |
 (6) |
Krzyżowa (modernization) (A18) |
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| (7) |
Krzywa (DK4) |
| (8) |
Chojnów |
| (9) |
Złotoryja |
| (10) |
Nowa Wieś Legnicka
(DK3, planned S3) |
| (11) |
Budziszów |
| (12) |
Kostomłoty (DK5) |
| (13) |
Kąty Wrocławskie |
| (14) |
Pietrzykowice (DK35) |
| (15) |
Bielany Wrocławskie
(DK5/DK8, planned A8) |
| (16) |
Krajków |
| (17) |
Brzezimierz |
| (18) |
Owczary (DK39) |
| (19) |
Przylesie |
| (20) |
Prądy (DK46) |
| (21) |
Dąbrówka (DK45) |
| (22) |
Krapkowice |
| (23) |
Gogolin |
| (24) |
Olszowa |
| (25) |
Nogowczyce (DK88) |
| (26) |
Łany (DK40) |
| (27) |
Kleszczów (DK88) |
|
| (28) |
Gliwice-Ostropa |
| (29) |
Gliwice-Bojków (DK78) |
|
| (30) |
Gliwice-Sośnica
(DK44) (planned A1) |
| (31) |
Zabrze-Wspólna |
| (32) |
Ruda Śląska-Wirek |
| (33) |
Chorzów-Batorego |
| (34) |
Katowice-Os. Witosa |
| (35) |
Katowice-Bocheńskiego |
| (36) |
Katowice-Mikołowska (DK81) |
| (37) |
Katowice-Francuska |
| (38) |
Katowice-Murckowska (S86) |
| (39) |
Mysłowice |
| (40) |
Mysłowice-Brzęczkowice (S1) |
| (41) |
Jaworzno-Jeleń |
| (42) |
Chrzanów I (DK79) |
| (43) |
Chrzanów II |
| (44) |
Chrzanów III (DK79) |
| (45) |
Rudno |
| (46) |
Balice I (S7) |
| (47) |
Balice II |
| (48) |
Kraków-Mirowska |
| (49) |
Kraków-Tyniec |
| (50) |
Kraków-Sidzina (DK44) |
| (51) |
Kraków-Opatkowice
(DK7, planned S7) |
| (52) |
Kraków-Łagiewniki (Sapiehy) |
| (53) |
Kraków-Wielicka (DK4) |
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| () |
Kraków-Bieżanów (proj.)
(planned S7) |
| () |
Szarów (proj.) (DK4) |
| () |
Bochnia (proj.) |
| () |
Brzesko (proj.) (DK75) |
| () |
Wierzchosławice (proj.) |
| () |
Krzyż (proj.) (DK73) |
| () |
Dębica-Żyraków (proj.) |
| () |
Dębica-Pustynia (proj.) |
| () |
Ropczyce-Sędziszów (proj.) |
| () |
Rzeszów-Zachód (proj.) (DK9) |
| () |
Rzeszów-Centrum (proj.) (DK9) |
| () |
Rzeszów-Wschód (proj.) (DK19) |
| () |
Łańcut (proj.) |
| () |
Przeworsk (proj.) |
| () |
Jarosław-Wierzbna (proj.) (DK4) |
| () |
Jarosław-Pawłosiów (proj.) |
| () |
Radymno (proj.) (DK77) |
| () |
Border checkpoint PL-UA
Korczowa |
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Ukrainian M10 |
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Route of the A4, in relation to other motorways
The A4 highway in Poland is a motorway which, when completed, will run from west to east through southern Poland, from the Polish-German border in Zgorzelec (connecting to the German A4 autobahn), through Wrocław, Katowice, Kraków and Rzeszów to the Polish-Ukrainian border in Korczowa. The highway is a part of the European route E40. At present about 380 km of the highway have been completed, out of the planned total length of 670 km. The section already completed, essentially the western half of the highway, runs continuously from the border with Germany to Kraków, except for a small missing section of about 50 km between Zgorzelec and Bolesławiec which was delayed due to legal problems in the bidding process. These have been resolved and construction will begin in April, 2007 and be completed by December, 2008. The eastern section from Kraków to the border with Ukraine will be finished by about 2013. The first portion of this route, the 20 km stretch east of Kraków, is projected to be ready some time in 2008
Large stretches of this motorway were initially built as a Reichsautobahn by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. After the war, when the new borders placed them in Poland, they received minimal maintenance and upgrades, becoming notorious for the bad quality of their road surfaces (a similar phenomenon was observed in Communist East Germany). In recent years, due to extensive reconstruction, especially of the section between Legnica and Wrocław, all traces of the old concrete road surface have been removed. Some features of the 1930s standards of construction remain however, for example the above stretch does not have an emergency lane, which will however be added in the future.
