Expressway S19 or express road S19 (in Polish ''droga ekspresowa S19'') is a major road in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

which has been planned to run from the border crossing to

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

in Kuźnica through

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up ...

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

and

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ; la, Resovia; yi, ריישא ''Raisha'')) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów has been the capital of the Subcarpathian Vo ...

, to the border with

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

at Barwinek, where it will connect with the future

R4 expressway (Slovakia) R4 is an expressway ( sk, rýchlostná cesta) in the north–south direction in eastern Slovakia. It goes from border with Poland and ending at border with Hungary. It goes through or around Svidník, Prešov and Košice. The section between ...

. The road is part of the proposed Via Carpatia route. The total planned length is . As of May 2022 almost the entire expressway between Lublin and Rzeszów (189.5km) has been completed. Also, the two existing sections near Rzeszów will receive short extensions and additional carriageways in the coming years; tenders for those sections are already underway. The planning of the road has not been finalized yet and debate continues over how much of it will be

dual carriageway A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...

and how much

single carriageway A single carriageway (British English) or Undivided highway (American English) is a road with one, two or more lanes arranged within a one carriageway with no central reservation to separate opposing flows of traffic. A single-track road has a s ...

(with 3 lanes).

GDDKIA The General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways ( pl, Generalna Dyrekcja Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad, GDDKiA) is the central authority of national administration set up to manage the national roads and implementation of the state budget i ...

officials are indicating that most of the road will have lower standard single carriageway, which according to them would be sufficient for the expected traffic density and result in significant cost savings. Local politicians are lobbying to have as much as possible built with dual carriageways. In late 2013, Polish government officials announced that the section of S19 between Lublin and Rzeszów will receive high priority and be completed by 2020. As S19 is not considered to be a high priority transport corridor by the European Union (despite earlier hopes that it might qualify as such), there are currently no firm timelines for when the entire S19 might be finished. A document outlining the future development of transport infrastructure issued by the Polish government in August 2014 projects that the road will be fully completed in 2023. DOKUMENT IMPLEMENTACYJNY DO STRATEGII ROZWOJU TRANSPORTU DO 2020 R. (z perspektywą do 2030 r.)
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References

External links

Official page about construction of S-19 section north of Rzeszów
{{Polish Expressways Expressways in Poland Proposed roads in Poland