Expressway S6 (in Polish ''droga ekspresowa S6'') is a major road in

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which has been planned to run from the A6 autostrada in Szczecin, through

Goleniów Goleniów ( csb, Gòłonóg; german: Gollnow) is a town in Pomerania, northwestern Poland with 22,844 inhabitants (2011). It is the capital of Goleniów County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Szczecin Voivodeshi ...

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to Gdańsk parallel to the

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, forming the main connection between Gdańsk and Szczecin. Expressway S6 in Poland 2003 ubt

The first section of S6 built was the '' Obwodnica Trójmiejska'' ( Tricity Bypass) from Gdańsk to

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, which is long, followed by the section between Szczecin and Goleniów, both in the 1970s. The next part of S6 to be opened was bypass of

Słupsk Słupsk (; , ; formerly german: Stolp, ; also known by several alternative names) is a city with powiat rights located on the Słupia River in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland, in the historical region of Pomerania or more specific ...

that was completed in October 2010. The bypass of

Nowogard Nowogard () ( csb, Nowògard; formerly german: Naugard) is a town in northwestern Poland, in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. it had a population of 16,733. Name ''Nowogard'' is a combination of two Slavic terms: novi (new) and gard, which is P ...

was completed in December 2011, with the rest of the section between Szczecin and Koszalin open by 2019. In July 2010, the route between Goleniów and Słupsk was finalised. It will be about long and pass just south of Kołobrzeg and then north of

Koszalin Koszalin (pronounced ; csb, Kòszalëno; formerly german: Köslin, ) is a city in northwestern Poland, in Western Pomerania. It is located south of the Baltic Sea coast, and intersected by the river Dzierżęcinka. Koszalin is also a county-sta ...

.Article in Glos Szczecinsk
„Szóstka” z Goleniowa do Słupska będzie ekspresowa i przez Kołobrzeg
/ref> The road will be a dual carriageway, with 27 interchanges and 130 viaducts, with about 20% of it overlapping the current route of National Road 6 (DK6). Doubts about financing made construction not expected to start before 2020,Rząd szykuje się na ograniczenie budowy dróg
but the schedule was later accelerated. The tenders for design-build contracts on the section between Goleniów and Koszalin were announced in August 2014, with expected completion around 2018. The exact route of S6 between Słupsk and Gdańsk has not yet been determined. Though the road was meant to be finished in 2018, it still is not how it was planned, as of 2022. The whole S6 route is passable, but some parts (Between Gdańsk and Kolobrzeg) are smaller than how the S6 was planned. With only one lane on each side and showing the unfinished parts of infrastructure, the S6 seems more like a Droga Wojewodzka, not a Droga krajowa or a Droga ekspresowa. After

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, the

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''HaFraBa'' association had already set up plans to build an ''

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'' along the route from

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through the

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, to the Free City of Danzig and East Prussia (today informally known as Berlinka). The construction was pushed by the

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authorities after 1933 as an extraterritorial ''

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'' across the

of prewar Poland further south than the modern S6 freeway has been planned for, but the road was never completed.

Sections of the expressway

Sections of the expressway

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