New motorway to be built for transit vehicles in Hungary

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After a government decision last May and public procurement in November, the process of building a transitway which would not cross Budapest but allow connections to get into the capital has started. The project aims to quicken the traffic through the country and avoid traffic congestions.

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Portfolio reported that 52% of trucks on Hungarian ways only pass the country to get to another country, but currently, drivers need to drive on three different motorways to get from one point to another. The newly-built transit motorway would allow them to get directly from one border to the other. Reaching the western and eastern regions of the country on a motorway is only possible by driving on M0 which goes through the southern part of Budapest in its suburbs and is always crowded with congestions.

The newly-built motorway also aims to ease the traffic on M0 and to allow transit vehicles to go on one roadway between the eastern and western regions of Hungary.

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3 Comments

  1. It would be interesting to know which company the public procurement process awarded the contract to.

  2. To explain the article why not produce a planned map of this proposed new motorway? Without a map, no reader can visualise this proposal.

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