Nadwiślańskiego Urzecza Bridge, Road bridge in Góra Kalwaria and Ostrówek, Poland.
The Nadwiślańskiego Urzecza Bridge is a road bridge over the Vistula on National Road 50, part of Warsaw's transit bypass, linking Góra Kalwaria with Ostrówek. It was built in 1954 to a design by Franciszek Szelągowski and is the nearest road crossing of the Vistula south of Warsaw.
The bridge was built in 1954 to a design by Franciszek Szelągowski, carrying National Road 50 over the Vistula between Góra Kalwaria and Ostrówek. In 2017, the Year of the Vistula, efforts led by regional researcher Łukasz Maurycy Stanaszek secured the name Nadwiślańskiego Urzecza: the Karczew council approved it on 28 November and Góra Kalwaria on 29 November. Renovation began in August 2022, with expansion joints, surfacing, anti-corrosion protection, drainage and barriers replaced; completion was planned for February 2023.
The bridge's name, adopted in 2017 during the Year of the Vistula, honours the Urzecze, the ethnographic region of the middle Vistula valley. The initiative came from Łukasz Maurycy Stanaszek, a researcher of that region; the councils of Karczew and Góra Kalwaria passed the naming resolutions on 28 and 29 November 2017.
The bridge carries National Road 50, the transit bypass of Warsaw, between Góra Kalwaria and Ostrówek, and is the nearest road crossing of the Vistula south of Warsaw. A renovation begun in August 2022 covered expansion joints, new surfacing on the bridge and approach sections, anti-corrosion protection, drainage repairs and the barriers and balustrades, with completion planned for February 2023. Check current traffic conditions before crossing, as the road carries heavy transit traffic.
The bridge carries National Road 50, the transit bypass of Warsaw, and is the nearest road crossing of the Vistula south of the capital. In 2017, during the Year of the Vistula, efforts led by regional researcher Łukasz Maurycy Stanaszek gave the crossing the name of the Nadwiślańskie Urzecze; the councils of Karczew and Góra Kalwaria adopted resolutions on 28 and 29 November 2017.
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