New motorway stretch opened today in Hungary – video, photo gallery

A new section of motorway was opened on Monday morning on the outskirts of Kenderes, with the unveiling of a 34-kilometre stretch of the M4 motorway between Törökszentmiklós and Kisújszállás. The development marks a major milestone in Hungary’s infrastructure programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced on his Facebook page.

New motorway section opened

The Prime Minister said: “What we promised, we will deliver – step by step, even against the fiercest headwinds.” He noted that in 2010 Hungary’s expressway network totalled just 1,273 kilometres, while by 2025 it will have expanded to nearly 2,000 kilometres.

As a result of these developments, around 90 per cent of Hungarians now live within a 30-minute drive of a motorway, which he described as a major breakthrough.

“It was a hard slog,” the Prime Minister said. “We fought our way through the financial crisis, the migrant crisis, COVID, and now we are facing the consequences of the war.”

Hungarian taxes will not be sent to Brussels

He added that just last week the government saved Hungary 400 billion forints in war-related expenditure by securing an exemption from Brussels’ military loan schemes.

According to Mr Orbán, the newly opened motorway section cost less than half of that amount, which he said would make it possible to continue construction as far as Berettyóújfalu.

“And we will keep going,” he said. “Hungarian taxpayers’ money is far better spent on the Great Plain, building four-lane roads, than being blown apart in the Donbas or lining the gilded bathrooms of Ukrainian oligarchs. Our plan is peaceful nation-building, not participation in Brussels’ war machine.”

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