It will be very difficult to get to Budapest Airport from next Monday
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Are you planning to travel to Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport in the next few weeks from Budapest’s downtown? Prepare for long queues, and bumper-to-bumper traffic jams because reconstruction will begin on the main roadway leading to the airport from Budapest’s downtown from Monday.
Reaching Budapest Airport will be challenging from Monday
According to Világgazdaság, the latest road reconstruction project in the outskirts of Budapest will concern the motorway leading to the Liszt Ferenc International Airport. The work will last for days on the M4 motorway. The segment is the section between Vecsés and Üllő.
As a result, there will be a lane closure starting from 19 June, next Monday, MKIF Magyar Koncessziós Infrastruktúra Fejlesztő Ltd, the motorway’s operator, said. The closure will affect the intersection of the M4 motorway and main road 4 in Vecsés. Furthermore, it will also concern the intersection leading directly to the airport. The ramps would remain open for traffic, but everybody should calculate longer travel times. Moreover, drivers will be able to use only one lane on the M4 motorway.
The airport intersection from a bird’s eye view:
As an alternative, they suggest everybody use the Gyáli Street-Nagykőrösi Street–M5 motorway–M0 highway–M4 motorway route to the airport. The work will start at dawn next Monday and is planned to end at the beginning of July.
Long OVERDUE – its been a disgrace, an embarrassment for visitors/tourists and citizen users and a growing SAFETY Hazzard this Freeway.
The deterioration in particular, over the past 18 months, accidents in recent times, that have caused the loss of life, its OVERDUE for a MAJOR up-grade.
The wear and tare on our Public Operated Buses – the Airport Service 100E must have caused DAMAGE in particular to the suspension of these vehicles, through the DISGRACFUL condition of the road surface on this freeway.
Trips to and from Deak Ferenc to Franz Listz – we use monthly – the gut wrenching un-comfortable ride on this freeway an ABOMINATION – disgrace.
It is with HOPE – sorry for the MASSIVE traffic upheaval its going to cause for 4-5 weeks minimum, for ALL and sundry – but lets HOPE – when completed – its firstly SAFER to travel on and secondly from a drive/ride passenger perspective SMOOTHER and less wear and tear on ALL vehicles buses and “others”.
Stupid question: I recall that the NKI moved to classify the material containing the details, calculations, and arguments behind the decision to award the tender for 10 years. Transparency International Hungary subsequently won in court – the court ordering the government to disclose background calculations of the deal. Did the government ever comply?
https://transparency.hu/en/news/letter-to-the-european-commission-on-the-highway-concession-case/