Documenting the New Motorway, #6: The Bridge Takes Shape

Today we had a lovely warm spring day here in Warsaw, so it was time to brush the cobwebs off my bike, give the chain and gears a squirt of WD-40, and pedal down to the east bank of the Vistula and see what’s changed since last September.  The supporting columns are coming along very nicely and the whole area is a very exciting place to visit.

Yes, I know it represents the expenditure of billions of Euros in homage to the internal combustion engine, but it is worth bearing in mind that this kind of infrastructure will in time be re-tooled to handle autonomous systems of non-polluting transport in the decades and even centuries ahead, so it’s not all bad.   Plus, in the shorter term, once this baby is done and open, it will reduce a diversion of 35 minutes through Warsaw city in my car down to, quite literally, just three minutes.  So you’ll not hear any complaints from me