The 46th Nationale Nederlanden Warsaw Marathon started on Sunday at 9 a.m. Individual streets are closed from the early morning hours. The first roads will be cleared after 11.30 a.m., the last ones until 4 p.m.
Difficulties related to the Warsaw Marathon concern seven districts: Śródmieście, Praga-Południe, Praga-Północ, Wola, Bemowo, Bielany and Żoliborz.
The competitors run along the following route: Świętokrzyska, Marszałkowska (eastern road), Al. Jerozolimskie (southern road), Poniatowskiego Bridge (southern road), al. Poniatowskiego (southern road), al. Washington, Modrzewiowa, Grochowska (southern road), Zamoyskiego (southern road), Targowo (western road), Zamoyskiego, Sokol, Zamość, Wybrzeże Szczecińskie (eastern road), Sokol, Zamoyskiego, Targowo (western road), al. Zieleniecka, al. Poniatowskiego (northern road), Wybrzeże Szczecińskie (western road), Wybrzeże Helskie, Zatylna, Jagiellońska (western road), Starzyńskiego (northern road), Gdański Bridge (northern road), Słomińskiego (northern road), Remember o Ogrodach, Kłopot, Burakowska, Piaskowa, Powązkowska, Tatarska, Ostroroga, Wawrzyszewska, Obozowa (northern road), Ksiącia Janusz, Ksiącia Bolesława, Widawska, Wrocławska, Powstańców Śląskich (western road), Conrada, Wólczyńska, Nocznickiego, al. Wittek (eastern road), Marymoncka, Słowackiego (eastern road), pl. Wilsona, Mickiewicza (western road), Gen. Andersa, Muranowska (northern road), Bonifraterska, pl. Krasińskich, Miodowa, Senatorska, Moliera, pl. Piłsudskiego, Królewska, pl. Małachowskiego, Mazowiecka, Świętokrzyska.
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Closed streets
As announced by the Public Transport Authority after 8 a.m., the western road of ul. is now closed to traffic. Marszałkowska on the section from ul. Świętokrzyska to the Dmowski roundabout, Grochowska and Obozowa streets and Świętokrzyska from the ONZ roundabout.
Additional streets will be closed as runners move.
Buses and trams on diversions
Throughout the day, buses of three lines will run on shortened routes: 503 from Natolin Północny to pl. Trzech Krzyży, 518 from Nowodwory to Metro Marymont, and 521 from Falenica to Wiatraczna.
Trams were diverted: 4, 7, 9, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 33, 35 and buses: 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 122, 123, 125, 127, 128, 129, 131, 135, 136, 138, 146, 147, 156, 157, 15 8, 162, 166, 180, 181, 184, 185, 197, 201, 202, 203, 210, 220, 250, 500, 507, 509, 520, Z12.
Running during the marathon line 409 will be suspended and “slow” buses will support line 500.
Main photo source: Leszek Szymański/PAP