Brand-new Danube bridge plans enter next stage

The planning of a brand-new Danube bridge leading to the Szentendre Island, has reached the next stage.

The call for tenders for the preparation of the new Danube bridge at Vác was published back in April. Currently, this large-scale development is under the auspices of Nemzeti Infrastruktúra Fejlesztő Zrt. (National Infrastructure Development company) and the winners of the tender have been announced just now.

According to Magyarépítők, the winners are UNITEF’83 Műszaki Tervező és Fejlesztő Zrt. (Engineering Design and Development) and Roden Mérnöki Iroda Kft. (Engineering office). The next step is to prepare the decision-making study, the environmental impact study and most importantly, the designs for the final bridge.

The island

Szentendre Island is an island on the Danube that extends from the Danube Bend, down until the borders of Budapest, Hungary’s capital. Making it a 31 kilometres long island with an area of 56 square kilometres. Apart from the Megyeri Bridge, which crosses the southern end of the island, there is no access leading to the island. In conclusion, there is only one bridge leading to the Szentendre Island near Tahitótfalu right now.

Thanks to the new bridge, this might change in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, the brand-new Danube bridge will connect the Sződliget junction of the traffic-heavy M2 highway with main road 11 through the Szentendre island.