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The autostrada A4 in Poland is a motorway that runs from west to east through southern Poland, north of the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains, from the Polish-German border at Zgorzelec-Görlitz (connecting to the German A4 autobahn), bypassing Wrocław, Opole, Gliwice, Katowice, Kraków, Tarnów, Dębica and Rzeszów to the Polish-Ukrainian border at Korczowa-Krakovets. The motorway is a part of the European route E40. As of October 30, 2014 about of the motorway have been completed, out of the planned total length of . To complete the highway, one remaining section east of Rzeszów is currently under construction, and is scheduled to be finished in 2016.〔(Kolejne opóźnienia na budowie autostrady A4 na Podkarpaciu )〕 The A4 parallels national road 94 (which connects with German Bundesstraße 6). ==History of construction and plans for the future== Some western stretches of this motorway were initially built as a ''Reichsautobahn'' by Nazi Germany in the 1930s under her pre-war borders. After World War II and the takeover of Poland by the communist regime, with new borders, the existing roads received minimal maintenance and upgrades and became notorious for their poor quality, a phenomenon similar to that observed in East Germany. Extensive reconstruction, especially of the section between Legnica and Wrocław, has removed all traces of the old concrete road surface, but some aspects of 1930s standards of construction remain; for example, the aforementioned stretch does not have an emergency lane, a feature that is to be added in the future. The section between Kraków and Katowice was built from the 1980s to 1996 and the section from Wrocław to Katowice between 2000 and 2005. In August 2009 construction of the last western part of the motorway from the border with Germany to the junction with A18 motorway was completed. Also, in 2009 the first part of the motorway east of Kraków (ending on national road 75 junction, near Szarów) was finished. The original plan was to finish the rest of the motorway by about 2013, but because of the UEFA decision to host the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine and the resulting need for better road infrastructure connecting the two countries, the date for opening the motorway to traffic was moved up to June 2012. This ambitious target was not attained due to multiple delays encountered during construction, some caused by the floods of 2010. The various subsections currently under construction will open in stages between second half of 2012 and 2016. Only the short section serving as the bypass of Rzeszów opened roughly on time in September 2012. When finished in 2016, the A4 will be the first of the three major Polish motorways to be fully completed along its entire planned length. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A4 autostrada (Poland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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