The Motorway D3 (formerly D18), sometimes called the
Kysuce
Kysuce is a traditional informal name of a region in north-western Slovakia, situated around the Kysuca river and bordering the Orava region in the east, Poland in the north and the Czech Republic in the west. It consists of two districts: Čadc ...
Motorway, is a
motorway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway. Other similar terms i ...
in northern
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 ...
. Initially, it is supposed to be only a two lane motorway in the Svrčinovec - Slovak/Polish border section, and four lane motorway in the remaining section Hričovské Podhradie - Čadca.
It lies on these E-roads:
E50,
E75 and
E442.
It starts at the motorway junction with the
D1, bypassing
Žilina
Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of Sl ...
, then gqoes to the north around
Kysucké Nové Mesto
Kysucké Nové Mesto (german: Kischützneustadt / ''Oberneustadl''; hu, Kiszucaújhely) is a town in Žilina Region, Slovakia, near the city of Žilina.
History
The first signs of settlement
In 1976 lumps of burnt clay and ceramics were found u ...
and
Čadca
Čadca (; until 1918 Čatca, Czača, hu, Csaca, pl, Czadca) is a district town in northern Slovakia, near the border with Poland and the Czech Republic.
Etymology
The name is derived from a word ''čad'' (smoke, soot; Proto-Slavic: ''čadъ'', ...
, having an interchange with the
R5, and ends near the village of
Skalité, where it crosses the
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
border and connects to
Expressway S1.This is one of the most important motorways in Slovakia and an e-vignette is required to use this motorway. The whole motorway has 2 lanes on each side.
Sections of the motorway
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See also
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D3 motorway (Czech Republic)
The D3 motorway ( cs, Dálnice D3) is a highway in the Czech Republic. Currently only the middle segment of the route is in operation; when complete, it will run from Prague via Tábor and České Budějovice to the Czech-Austrian border at Dolní ...
*
Horelica Tunnel
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Highways in Slovakia
Highways in Slovakia are divided into motorways ( sk, diaľnica) and expressways ( sk, rýchlostná cesta).
The majority of these dual carriageways are managed by the state-owned National Motorway Company of Slovakia (NDS), established in 2005. ...
External links
Exit list of Motorway D3Interactive map of motorways* https://ww-w.ndsas.sk/narodna-dialnicna-spolocnost
Highways in Slovakia
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