Poland adds ten new highway speed‑monitoring sections

In the last week of June, Poland's Central Automatic Traffic Supervision Center (CANARD) activated ten new average‑speed measurement (OPP) zones on motorways and express roads. The new sections cover parts of the A1 (Kutno‑Piątek, Piotrków‑Dąbrowa, Mykanów‑Radomsko, Zabrze North‑West), A4 (Łagiewniki‑Kraków Wieliczka), S19 (Lublin Węglin‑Sławinek), S5 (Poznań West‑Stęszew), S6 (Gdańsk Airport‑Owczarnia), S8 (Kołaki‑Mężenin) and the national road DK81 (Ochaby Małe‑Skoczów). Lengths range from 3.2 km to 19 km, with speed limits of 140 km/h for cars and 80 km/h for trucks on motorways, and 70 km/h on DK81.

The OPP system records vehicle registration at the start and end of each controlled segment to calculate average speed, aiming to reduce speeding and improve traffic safety. In the Silesian voivodeship three of the new sites – the A1 Zabrze North‑West segment and the DK81 Ochaby Małe‑Skoczów stretch – join an existing network, bringing the total to eleven OPP zones in the region.