Solidarity Roundabout
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The Roundabout of Solidarity (Polish: Rondo Solidarności) is a major road interchange in the Polish city of Łódź, combining five streets and serving a transit traffic running through the city as part of Polish national road no. 14.
History
The interchange was built in the late 1970s, being opened in 1977 as an actual roundabout converging three streets: Pomorska, Uniwersytecka and Kopcińskiego. Initially it was named after Ludwik Waryński - a theoretician of socialist movement in Poland.
In 2000 the interchange went under major reconstruction, which has led to the integration of roundabout with two nearest crossroads. The traffic was meant to be controlled by an intelligent traffic light control system, reacting to the intensity of incoming and outcoming traffic. Due to surface problems and traffic jams the interchange was slightly modified in 2003.
In 2005, to commemorate the 25. anniversary of the August 1980 strikes and signing the Gdańsk Agreement, Łódź City Council renamed the interchange to Roundabout of Solidarity. Along with the change of name a sculpture - The Tree of Solidarity (pol.
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