DOWNTOWN JUNCTION IN GDAŃSK

BPBK is currently at the final stage of works on the conceptual design for developing Gdańsk Downtown.
The aim of the study was to protect the historic centre against through traffic and allow efficient use of the expenditure incurred for road investments of Gdańsk through the city.
The design includes the construction of the Downtown Envelope in accordance with the conceptual assumptions of the Study for conditions and directions of the spatial development of Gdańsk. Expanding the Downtown Envelope will allow quietening traffic in Podwale Grodzkie Street, Wały Jagiellońskie Street, and thereby better connection of the areas of Targ Rakowy and Sienny and the Central Railway Station and the City Council Compound with the Main City.

The main assumption of the second variant of the conceptual design chosen is the construction of the Biskupia Górka overpass, allowing for the target road system with a reconstruction of access roads to the Voivodeship Authority and the intersection of Toruńska Street. We also included the reconstruction of the road system and pedestrian traffic in connection with the Gdańsk Downtown stop with reconstruction of the intersection of the Armii Krajowej Route and 3-ego Maja Street and staged construction of Nowe Podwale Grodzkie Street for servicing the areas of Targ Rakowy and Sienny in connection with the Central Railway Station and SKM Śródmieście [Downtown Station]. It was also proposed to upgrade the transport servicing of the City Council Compound (with an underground car park) and to reconstruct the intersection of 3 Maja Street with Nowe Ogrody Street.
The study presented amongst other connections with the historic fortification system by forming the pedestrian route and pedestrian crossing under the roadway in the existing fragment of the moat.
The conceptual design upgrades the basic transport system in Downtown Gdańsk and uses the reserves lying in the existing transport system and arranges collective transport and connections of pedestrian traffic and ensures the possibility of staged arrival at the target solution, at the same time maintaining traffic in the existing transport system.

Added: February 2011