Bad news: Hungary’s busiest motorway to be partly closed during the holiday season
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Contrary to previous plans, work on the M7 motorway will start this summer, and as a result, there will be periods when some lanes of the motorway will be closed, which will make travelling to Lake Balaton from Budapest more complicated. The works cannot wait any longer due to the poor condition of the roads.
The renovation of the M7 motorway in the summer is part of Hungary’s biggest motorway project, Világgazdaság reports. In the three years between 2023 and 2025, 538 kilometres of the 1,237-kilometre road that the Hungarian Concession Infrastructure Development Plc. (Magyar Koncessziós Infrastruktúra Fejlesztő Zrt., MKIF) will take over for operation will be renewed, with new asphalt replacing the damaged pavement, in several layers where needed.
In 2023, 19% of the total main road network was renewed, which is 3.6 million square metres, and this year another 20%, 4 million square meters is planned to be reconstructed. On the M7 alone, nearly 1.5 million square metres will be newly paved this year.
The deterioration of the M7 has reached such a level that the reconstruction works cannot be stopped even during the summer holidays, according to MKIF. Although this year, as last year, it was planned that there would be no work on the M7 motorway between Budapest and Lake Balaton (Balatonvilágos) during the holiday period, the deterioration of the road surface and the safety of the travelling public made renovation work unavoidable in several places.
Such a pity that the road surface deteriorated so quickly and unpredictable just after the elections. It’s going to be quite annoying driving during the summer vacation to Balaton and Croatia.
But this renovation was not possible to be planned it to the Winter or Spring of 2024 for some reason