with the end of the cold war, and particularly with poland joining the european union, increasing thought has been given to reconstructing the road as part of the european highway system. in the 1990s a 14 km long segment near the western polish border was incorporated into the new a6 autostrada (highway). a further 7 km, to the junction with national road 10, was being restored and was scheduled to open for traffic in august 2007. an additional 8 km is to be upgraded at some future date and redesignated as a6. the section between elbląg and the border with russia was completely reconstructed and opened as an express road, s22, in september 2008. in the course of the upgrade, the new modern carriageway was built in the space left for the second carriageway during original construction. at the same time, the original concrete carriageway was demolished almost along the entire length of the route, and only a few traces of it remain. all of the remaining original overpasses and bridges were demolished and replaced with modern works. thus very few traces of the original german autobahn can be seen. other part of the "berlinka" are incorporated into "voivodeship" road 142, and "expressroad" 6/3. in the russian kaliningrad oblast, it is incorporated into road p516.