About the toll stops on the highways

Hey.
I'm a UK driver currently in Poland on holidays and have been driving around the past 2-3 days, going from Katowice to Torun yesterday for instance (those thunderstorms were really exciting btw ;))

Anyway, I have noticed they are not charging you on the highways at this moment (the toll booths are empty / not-in-use) ... is this a temporary thing or has the law actually changed on this?

@UK_Driver; empty / not-in-use...... .
However, tickets should be bought, for example at Orlen petrol stations.

A UK driver who refers to motorways as highways - and Jesus wept ........ please tell us that you're not actually English, just based in the UK :)

Atch... bloody hell, is that all you have to say? Pick out one word which makes me sound like either an American or some newly arrived illegal immigrant from Albania about to get a free house / NHS / car and start up an illegal cannabis den. I know my language and my country miles better than any one that is "living" there. ;)

Just so you know, I chose "highway" because I thought that is what Polish people learnt in class. I guess you must be living in England and picked that up yourself... good for you love.

Now how about we try again?

Showing your true colours there .

Not in class but in culture, e.g, music. Highway to Hell etc. I have never heard Motorway to Hell or Heaven.

As I know Motorway must have at least 4 lanes (2 in every direction) How is it with Highway? Are there only 2 Lanes possible?

Highway in normal everyday usage just means a paved road that goes through more than one town.

I grew up a few blocks from a major highway that was just two lanes at the time. A highway can have more lanes also.... the directions can be together or divided.

For specialists there are probably more precise terms, but that's the baseline.


Or the great hit "Life is a Dual Carriageway"....

And "My way or the motorway!" doesn't quite cut it either...

Nice song...

youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo

I guess ......... another dreadful Americanism in place of I suppose :)) Anyway, don't be so grumpy. I was just having a bit of a laugh. I'd give you a bit of advice though. Don't compromise your English to try to fit what you think foreigners know. Just use whatever term comes naturally to you. No I don't live in England although I have done in the past but in any case, being Irish, I know far more about the English language than you do :))


In British English, the highway is basically any public road under English common law. You know the old thing of being had up for obstructing the public highway blah, blah.

'A highway is a way over which there exists a public right of passage, that is to say a right for all Her Majesty's subjects at all seasons of the year freely and at their will to pass and repass without let or hindrance.'

Oh to be in England .................

lol just the kind of statement that will really upset the English....thing is , it's probably true...

Well, they spent nearly eight hundred years upsetting us, so it's only fair :)

lol cant dispute that...:)

@Atch
youtu.be/R21uFSWV6Qc

It's king's highway, I advice you to make way! :)

A legal term

Not in general speech.

Let's all get back to toll stops please

OK.

I went Warsaw to Berlin about 3 weeks ago (at night) and all toll booths were staffed and working.

From December 1, 2021, toll stops are open on two sections of Polish motorways. On the A2 Konin - Łódź and on the A4 Wrocław - Gliwice. However, you have to pay, for example, when buying tickets at petrol stations.

As mentioned, the toll booths were open about a month ago and were collecting tolls. That would have been the bit near Konin as we were travelling Warsaw-Berlin.