Expressway S7 (Poland)
Expressway S7 or express road S7 is a Polish highway which has been planned to run from Gdynia on the Baltic coast through Gdańsk, Elbląg, Warsaw, Radom, Kielce and Kraków to Rabka near the border with Slovakia. It is being constructed partially by upgrading national road 7 and partially on new alignment. The construction is co-financed by the European Union funding. The total planned length of S7 is, of which has been built and further is under construction as of December 2025.
Route
The section from Gdynia through Gdańsk to Czosnów is completed. From Czosnów to Warsaw a dual-carriageway national road 7 from the 1970s is used for traffic, and it is partially under reconstruction into S7. The 2+2 profile is provided on whole length of the reconstruction site. In Warsaw, S7 has concurrency with S2 and S8.From Warsaw to Kraków the expressway is open to traffic, providing an unbroken expressway connection between Poland's two largest cities. Near the Kraków Mistrzejowice interchange only a single carriageway of S7 is open to traffic, with one lane per each direction available.
In Kraków, S7 is ultimately planned to be routed over the eastern and southern bypass of the city after the last section of the eastern bypass is completed in late 2026. Until then, it is instead temporarily signposted on the route through the northern and western Kraków bypass.
Between Kraków and Myślenice the existing dual-carriageway national road 7 serves the traffic until S7 is constructed in unspecified future. Between Myślenice and Rabka-Zdrój S7 is open, which includes the Zakopianka tunnel. In 2020, it was announced that a dual-carriageway extension of S7 from Rabka-Zdrój to the Polish-Slovak border will be constructed, set to be finished by 2033. At the border it will connect to the planned R3 expressway.