Expressway S5 or express road S5 ( pl, droga ekspresowa S5) is a limited-access road in

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which has been planned to run along the route Ostróda –

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– Bydgoszcz –

Poznań Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint Joh ...

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. As of December 2021, about of the road has been completed; a section shares the route with A2 motorway, out of the total planned length of about . The construction of the road received higher priority after Poland was selected as one of the hosts of the

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championship, since it would serve as a direct connection between three of the four Polish cities hosting matches: Poznań, Wrocław and (in part) Gdańsk. However, plans to finish the whole road before the championships were proven too optimistic and only a section between the A2 motorway and

Gniezno Gniezno (; german: Gnesen; la, Gnesna) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. One of the Piast dynasty's chief cities, ...

was completed by that time. The section was opened on 4 June 2012. This part of the S5 expressway serves as the eastern bypass of Poznań. In October 2015, the expressway had been extended from the ''Nowe Marzy'' junction (near Grudziądz) to Ostróda. In November 2015, contracts were signed for the Gniezno-Grudziądz section, a total of about 150 km. In May 2017, the continuation of the S5 from the end of the eastern bypass of Poznań to just north of Gniezno opened to traffic, thus diverting most transit traffic away from Gniezno itself. Since 2022, the entire main section of S5 from Grudziądz (motorway A1) through Bydgoszcz, Poznań (A2) to Wrocław (A4) is complete and open to traffic.

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