This is the English version of an article first published in Polish: read the Polish original. It refers to source material: Zarząd Dróg Miejskich w Warszawie (ZDM). The text is our own commentary, not a translation or copy of that source.
We wrote about this back in August: from July 17, a stretch of ul. Vogla between ul. Przyczółkowa and ul. Kostki Potockiego was closed to traffic for the rebuild of the Przyczółkowa, Vogla and Branickiego crossing, a project worth nearly 28 million zloty and billed as the district's biggest road investment of this term. The city office said then that the work would wrap up in September. Reality turned out differently. The final resurfacing of the whole crossing is only happening now, in October, split into two weekend stages.
The first stage, from Friday October 2 at 10 PM to Monday October 5 in the morning, covered milling the old asphalt and laying new surface on the outer lanes of Przyczółkowa and on the approaches to Branickiego and Vogla. Traffic through the crossing was limited during that window, but it stayed passable.
Second stage: October 9 to 12
The second stage is scheduled for the coming long weekend, from Friday October 9 at 10 PM to Monday October 12 at 4 AM. This time the crew works on the inner lanes of Przyczółkowa. The Municipal Roads Authority (ZDM) says the street will be narrowed to one lane in each direction at the crossing for that period. Left turns will not be possible, neither from Przyczółkowa into ul. Vogla or ul. Branickiego, nor from those streets into Przyczółkowa, and drivers on Vogla will not be able to go straight onto Branickiego or the other way round.
For residents of Zawady and Miasteczko Wilanów who use this crossing, whether heading to Konstancin-Jeziorna or onto Przyczółkowa towards the city centre, this is the last week of disruption. After this weekend, the crossing that has been under reconstruction since July should have a complete new surface on every approach. If you are planning to drive through on this long weekend, build in extra minutes, especially in the evening and overnight when the actual work is happening, and check the signage on site right before you leave rather than relying only on earlier announcements, since detour details can shift at short notice.
The good news is that after this weekend the crossing itself should be done for good. Instead of another construction stage, what is left is normal use of the new surface, without the temporary lane narrowing and signage that residents of this part of Wilanów have lived with since midsummer.