Infrastructure upgrades announced: 2 new lanes will be added to busy Hungarian motorway

Construction and Transportation Minister János Lázár presented plans for transport infrastructure upgrades in the area around Eger (NE Hungary) after talks with the city’s mayor on Thursday.

After the meeting with Ákos Vágner, Lázár said that the government had made good on a pledge to connect Eger with the M3 motorway via the M25 expressway with a HUF 67bn investment. He added that the M3 would undergo a HUF 100bn upgrade to finish by the end of the summer of 2025, while a stretch of the motorway, from Road no. 31 to the Gyöngyös exit, would be expanded to six lanes at a cost of HUF 420bn.

Lázár said construction of a 16.5km-long, HUF 100bn city bypass could start, while the existing main road through the city was repaved in 2026.

An east-west rail line connecting to the city could be upgraded at a cost of HUF 135bn, reducing travel time between the capital and Eger by around 20 minutes, he added.

He said ten hectares owned by railway company MAV could be transferred to the city to expand its industrial park which is at capacity.

He added that HUF 1bn would be earmarked to start the renovation of Eger’s landmark castle.

Hungary could expand EV subs to households, says minister

Making subsidies for the purchase of electric vehicles available to households, too, is among the government’s plans, conditional on the fiscal situation, National Economy Minister Marton Nagy said in a presentation at Hungarian Battery Week in Budapest on Thursday. Nagy said a subsidy scheme for retail EV purchases could be introduced from the second half of 2025.