Expressway S8 (Poland)
Expressway S8 or express road S8, officially named The Route of the Heroes of the Battle of Warsaw 1920 (in Polish "droga ekspresowa S8", "Trasa Bohaterów Bitwy Warszawskiej 1920 r.") is a major road in Poland which connects Wrocław via Łódź and Warsaw to Białystok. The whole road is about long (of which, 22 km is constructed in motorway standard and marked as A8 instead). Construction of the last fragment finished in October 2019. Originally, the road was to continue on to the border with Lithuania, but in 2009, the plans were changed and currently the S61  will branch off S8 and go to the border. The S8 section from Warsaw to S61 serves as part of Via Baltica. In September 2019, it was announced that an extension of S8 from Wrocław to Kłodzko was added to the plans and will be constructed in the future. The upgrade is part of a European plan to fund express roads in Poland. S8 in Warsaw. S8 runs through Warsaw and is part of its network of bypass roads. Various fragments were completed between 2010 and 2015. It was constructed mostly as an upgrade of the city's existing inner  highways and as such might be considered not fully meeting the definition of a bypass as it serves both the transit and local district traffic at the same time, in particular large traffic jams form on it every day during rush hours. During rush hours (7-10 and 16-20), the road is closed for truck drivers, who have to bypass the city through roads 50 and 62.