Driving Time: Calais to Warsaw

VarsovianThreads: 91 Posts: 568 Joined: Nov 23, 06 ♂	Aug 22, 11, 15:04 #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.

pipThreads: 11 Posts: 1,293 Joined: Jul 4, 11 ♀	Aug 22, 11, 15:11 #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?

VarsovianThreads: 91 Posts: 568 Joined: Nov 23, 06 ♂	Edited by: Varsovian Aug 22, 11, 17:22 #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.

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Aug 22, 11, 22:34 #4

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.

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.

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Aug 22, 11, 23:28 #5

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.

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

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Aug 23, 11, 00:09 #6

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

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? :/

warszawskiThreads: 60 Posts: 2,389 Joined: May 21, 10 ♂	Aug 23, 11, 07:13 #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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