A18 autostrada (Poland)

The highway is 76.5 km (47.5 mi) long and is part of the European route E36 and the Pan-European corridor IIIA from Berlin to Wrocław.

The motorway had its beginning as a single-carriageway part of Reichsautobahn 9 (Berlin-Breslau) built by Nazi Germany in the 1930s,[1] completed between 1936 and 1938.

By June 2007, the road had two carriageways in use, but the older of the two (carrying eastbound traffic towards Wrocław) was in extremely poor shape, still using the surface made of concrete slabs laid in the 1930s.

[6] On 15 July 2010, the environmental decision for the revised project was issued,[7] which would have allowed for the contract bidding procedure to be completed and for construction to start in 2011.

However, in December 2010, the Polish government announced significant cutbacks to its funding for road construction, which delayed the project.

The Reichsautobahn from the 1930s had served as the east-bound carriageway until 2021.
After reconstruction, the whole A18 has new high-quality surface, however a short (5.6 km) fragment remains substandard due to lack of emergency lanes.