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Driving Time: Calais to Warsaw


Varsovian  91 | 634  
22 Aug 2011 /  #1
It took my wife and I 15 hours on our recent home run to England and back.
There were no hold-ups along the way, other than thanks to the combined incompetence of a generation of Polish governments :)

It's such a pain struggling along at 80kmh from the German border to the A2 motorway (starts at Nowy Tomyśł) and from Stryków to Warsaw.
pip  10 | 1658  
22 Aug 2011 /  #2
great to know- thanks for the info. did you drive from Calais, straight to Holland then to Germany or did you take another route?
OP Varsovian  91 | 634  
22 Aug 2011 /  #3
Calais - Antwerp - Venlo - Hannover

One other thing - the stretch of motorway from the Polish-German border seems to be at an advanced stage of completion, so hopefully it won't be too long to wait now.
delphiandomine  86 | 17823  
22 Aug 2011 /  #4
Open in November, and should be finished by October.

Strykow-Warsaw is the more interesting question - it's likely that *something* will be open for Euro 2012, but it won't be a ready motorway and will likely close again afterwards.
poland_  
22 Aug 2011 /  #5
I did Poznan airport to Warsaw yesterday Delph, after Strykow the road is much to be improved, when you get 25 clicks to Warsaw it is much better to do a detour to Stare Babice ( Warsaw north) and come in from that side will take at least 30 mins off the journey
delphiandomine  86 | 17823  
23 Aug 2011 /  #6
Wish I'd known that a few months ago :(

Strykow-Warsaw is just a disgrace right now - I did Poznan-Lodz in just over an hour in the middle of the night not so long ago, but then took over 3 hours the next morning to do Strykow-Warsaw - it's what, just over 100km? :/
poland_  
23 Aug 2011 /  #7
it's what, just over 100km? :/

About 120km.

Interesting figures from the recent long weekend.

53 people were killed and 604 injured in 462 accidents – those are the tragic long weekend statistics on Polish roads. The police arrested nearly three thousand drunk drivers – most of them (950) on Sunday.

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