New motorway to be built in southern Hungary
The project, cancelled two years ago, could now be realised. 37 kilometres of road is to be built.
According to instructions published in the Official Gazette of the Ministry of Construction and Transport (OMT), a public tender will soon be launched to design the M60 section between Pécs and Szigetvár, the Baranya county news portal reports.
According to the official justification, the preparations for the construction of the expressway between Pécs and Szigetvár were suspended in 2023 based on a government decision on the budgetary measures necessary to protect the reduction of the electricity bill and to meet defence objectives during the war in Hungary’s neighbourhood.
The construction permit for the 37-kilometre-long section of the road, which was planned to have two lanes with paved embankments on both sides and a central dividing lane with a speed limit of 110 kilometres per hour, was already available. Still, the next step, the preparation of the design, was not completed.
Following a decision recently published in the Official Journal, a conditional procedure for preparing the design will be launched by 31 March at the latest, details HERE.
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