Are Polish roads really this bad?

Noo, I do not know.

You got it sth, but misunderstood. What does "under construction" make sense to you ?

Meaning you won't complain next year.

Yeah, exactly :))

When...??? Who won...?

And who bombed the roads to bits...?

Id start calling it something else TBH.....that version tends to have links to another Austrian who paid a visit a few decades ago.....:)


It was a brit stag party,those savages!!!!

Sth else ? Like what ? (You had better speak clearly.)

Yeah yeah, I am talking about not only few decades ago, but also b.c.e ;)

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Time Machine :D

It is asked If roads in Poland are bad or not. That's all. You're supposed to answer 'Yes or No.' Also, in 2nd page, some pics were added. But you talk about sth else.

War .. ? Yeah I know. 5 mins ago I played Call of Duty :D

You mean, otherwise we would drive on 80yo roads today???

Back to topic: the roads aren't that bad. Polands biggest problem is the lack of highways, which makes long distance drives a torture, especially because of reckless driving.

Yes joking aside , i agree with you....

The roads in Poland are far from perfect , but having driven in Russia , Ukraine and Belarus i have to say they are pretty good....

My friends from Denmark who are visiting Poland on Motorcycles were a little bit shocked at the state of Polish roads , but they will get used to it soon enough....

Driving from my home in Pomerania all the way to Kiev i found pretty good roads all the way....untill i got to Ukraine...now there is a good example of bad roads.....!

Talibs, of course.

Warschau????

Wash your mouth out with soap and water son!!

Why? What is wrong with Festung Warschau?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung_Warschau

gee, due to corruption - no wonder that all hate Kaczynski because he was going after corrupted!

Hey, man are you crazy ? What is your problem ? What's wrong with Warschau ?

I believe that you are totally ignorant. You just sit in front of the your computer and talking through my hat.

I wish somebody taught you there is no difference between Warschau, Warsaw, Warszawa. All them are same. In german, it is called Warschau. In Poland, Polish, you call it Warszawa.. Sooo ??

Do you know what I am thinking now ? Poland is really nice country in spite of some problems, i.e roads. But because of you and like you, people have some bad idea about Poland.

Though, If I said something wrong, you could be more polite and explain it why it was wrong.

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(Other names for Warsaw include Warschau (German and Dutch), Varšava (Slovak, Czech, Latvian, Slovenian, Serbian and Croatian), Варшава/Varshava (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian and Serbian), Varšuva (Lithuanian), Varsovia (Spanish and Latin), Varsovie (French), Varsó (Hungarian), Varsavia (Italian), וואַרשע/Varshe (Yiddish), ורשה/Varsha (Hebrew), Varşovia (Romanian), Varsóvia (Portuguese), Varssavi (Estonian), Varsova (Finnish), Varsjava (Faroese), 华沙 (Simplified Chinese), 華沙 (Traditional Chinese), ワルシャワ (Japanese), 바르샤바 (Korean), (Greek), and Վարշավա (Armenian)... I know that it is the first time you've seen these. )

This is simply the name we Poles do not particularly like. The English name is Warsaw.

Thanks lot. That's all. :))

EdWilczynski, you were supposed to say this one.

I respect you, yet I did not say swear word, just I told Warschau. He might kindly tell me.

I made myself no problem with Warschau since I was more interested in what you had had to say about the roads, Recee ;)

Mmmn, Both complaints come from Englishmen.

Divide et impera, eh boys ;)

Polish engineers still have not mastered HOW NOT to construct potential death-traps. Choice is, either smash into a tree or wind up overturned in a ditch. Not to forget the cambers are all cock-eyed also. A well known example of this is the main drag from Krakow to Zakopane.... Notorious !

As for the quality of the road surfaces, that,s why they use cheap foreign companies, so they can pass the buck.
May I add, it makes no difference who, how, or why, the onus is on the government to oversee and be responsible for the end product.


Good point. One reason for the failings.

Uh, it's called public tendering.

The flaws of which are apparent to anyone with half a brain, though it's not Poland's fault.


You mean, he was going after those who weren't supporters of PiS.

Ask yourself Ironside, why did he never get locked up? Who was protecting him?

I certainly don,t take the lowest quote when putting out to tender. That,s asking for trouble.
I thought you were a businessman ? ......... " anyone with half a brain " ?


Then tell me who you would blame ?
Would you pay for shoddy workmanship ?
If your own personal company f...s up, do you blame your employees. No delph, you,re the boss, so the buck stops with you.

Nothing. It is a nice city and for the comfort of tourists, many important facilities are described in foreign languages:

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Just got back from a short trip to Europe and I have to say the Czech and Hungarian roads we rode on were very good (Prague-Vienna-Budapeszt-Munich)

How's the A4 - the stretch from Wroclaw to Rybnik in particular?

He yeah, i had the pleasure of being crammed south bound (past junction M4-Heathrow) on the M25 at 17:30 a couple of weeks ago. The motorway congestion in the UK is just astonishing. British road rage is an issue too, theres some cheeky mofo's out there.

I'd have to say i preferred driving on the Polish roads, even when there was an accident you could always drive around it, having said that i lived in the country, Wroclaw was getting worse and worse congestion wise. Just too many road improvements all at the same time.


Its marvelous, watch out for truck drivers pulling out at low speeds. You can pretty much 140 KPH all the way and no tolls.

Yes but Brits can not match Poles when it comes to inventiveness with regard to traffic jams. Last week I was driving to Lublin and at 6.30pm there was a four kilometre long (measured on satnav) tailback for a roundabout where on main road met a fairly minor one!

Can government(Polish) force citizens to sell their property in the name of the public good? eg to build/widen a road?
ie eminent domain - usa; compulsory purchase - uk

yes - but only since quite recently (2008)

The land changes its status under the provisions of Law established in 2006 and becomes immediately the state`s property right after the decision of the localization`s establishment of the inwestment is issued upon the Law established on 18.10.2006 .

I drove from Warsaw-Bialystok-Lublin-Rezszow-Krakow back to Warsaw via Czechostowa. Overall the roads are pretty good, for Poland. Warsaw-Bialystok is very good (two way lanes for both sides with median strips, no risk of head on collision) for about 2/3. Lots of constructions of highways along that section too. Bialystok to Lublin is OK but very dangerous because it is single lane bothways and there is extreme high risk of head on collision while overtaking as it is impossible to overtake without driving on the opposite lane. The road is simply too small for that section.

Lublin to Rezszow is very bad for about 10-20 km, there is a danger of your vehicle floor touching the hump of the road because the tyre tracks have sunk so much in the road. But 70% of it is OK and some sections very good(highways quality)

Rezszow to Krakow is a nightmare because of too many constructions or roads damaged for repairs. But thats a good sign as constructions will be completed in a year or so. Krakow to Wroclow all the way to Germany is a breeze thanks to the expressway with toll and freeway.

I saw lots of crosses erected along the roads and my friend told me thats where people had accident and died. I'm not particularly suprised as all Polish drivers insist on overtaking me even though I was driving 10-20 km above speed limit most of the time.

Apart from the need for speed driving (99.99% of them exceed speed limits at all times), I found Polish drivers to be polite and considerate to other drivers and are quite happy to give way (particularly lorry and bus drivers). I drove about 1500 kms and I saw a cop once riding a motorcycle outside the cities doing patrol.

what does that mean? how r the 'roads' in the australian outback?? ;)

Please don't be a hypocrite. Polish people do the same thing. Why do you call Vilnius, Wilno, and Lviv, lwow? Warsaw, Warszawa, Warschau, its the same damn thing, just different language.