Southern Bypass of Warsaw. The tunnel under Ursynów is open. We will not go faster than 80 km/h

At 11:30 am, the official opening of the POW tunnel near Ursynów began. From 12:00 the route is passable. Thus, the breach in the Southern Ring Road of Warsaw has been patched. We will not hear about another postponement of the opening date.

Since its opening, sectional speed measurement has been operating in the tunnel near Ursynów - devices recording the exact time of entry and exit have been set up in front of and behind the tunnel. On this basis, the average driving speed on the new section of the Warsaw Southern Bypass is calculated. If the driver exceeds the allowed limit (80 km/h in the tunnel), he will be fined.

POW tunnel near Ursynów opened

2335 meters - this is exactly the length of the tunnel under Ursynów. It is currently the longest tunnel in Poland. It was packed with modern technical solutions. Their job is to ensure security. Signals from cameras and sensors are processed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by the traffic management system.

In the event of any danger, the drivers in the tunnel will hear messages from the Tunnel Management Center broadcast by the sound system in the facility, as well as by the radio in the car - on one of the four public radio programs:

Range? Lack. But there are alarm niches

In the outer walls of both aisles of the tunnel (approx. every 125 meters) there are 19 alarm niches. In turn, in the inner walls there are nine niches (every 250 meters) with emergency passages to the adjacent nave. At each of the niches, signs informing about their equipment have been installed - in each there is an emergency telephone, a fire extinguisher and a fire blanket, and there are also hydrants in the evacuation passages.

Using the tunnel emergency communication system, drivers calling for help will no longer need to identify where they are. The use of the emergency phone will be visible on the computer screens in the Tunnel Management Center, as will the activation of the manual call point (small red box on the wall at the entrance to the alcove) or the removal of the fire extinguisher from the locker.

- writes GDDKiA in the communiqué.

Camera-controlled POW tunnel

The situation on each of the 2335 meters of the tunnel is constantly monitored by 134 cameras. 22 are speed dome cameras installed at the entrances and exits of the tunnel and opposite the emergency passages. The rest are fixed cameras - 104 of them were installed along the inner walls of the tunnel, and 8 at the inlets and outlets. The latter acquire the image for the automatic number plate recognition system used e.g. to collect statistical data on travel times. This is the sectional speed measurement mentioned at the beginning of the article.

Access to monitoring, in addition to the Tunnel Management Center, is also available to the Capital Police Headquarters and the Security Center of the Capital City of Warsaw. Warsaw. The television surveillance system has the function of automatically detecting certain events, e.g. the appearance of a pedestrian, stopping the vehicle or driving the wrong way.