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One km bike lane for 750 thousand EUR? In Hungary, that’s realityOne km bike lane for 750 thousand EUR? In Hungary, that’s realityOne km bike lane for 750 thousand EUR? In Hungary, that’s realityOne km bike lane for 750 thousand EUR? In Hungary, that’s reality
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Barbara Adorján Barbara Adorján · 08/08/2021
· Business

One km bike lane for 750 thousand EUR? In Hungary, that’s reality

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Road construction costs large amounts of money in Hungary. Millions of forints are spent on a short bicycle lane, and the price differences are significant.

As Daily News Hungary wrote before, the M6 motorway is being built for HUF 4.5 billion (EUR 12.5 million).

Of course, roadworks can have varied prices based on economy, the materials used, and the change in the other prices of products and utensils necessary for construction. Bicycle lanes are even less expensive than roads, but in Hungary, they can also be very pricey, and differences between the costs are noticeable.

A bicycle lane in Szentendre (Pest County) cost 250 million forints (EUR 706,399) per kilometre. Between Dunakeszi and Budapest (also Pest County), the price was even higher; the 5.8-kilometre-long bicycle lane was constructed at the cost of 1,114 billion forints, which means that just one kilometre cost 200 million forints (EUR 565,119), writes Magyar Narancs.

The most expensive investment was the bicycle lane between Paks and Dunakömlőd (Tolna County), where one kilometre cost more than 260 million forints (EUR 734,655), and the total cost rose up to 663 million forints (EUR 1,873,371) for 2.5 km only. The renovation of a 6.4-kilometre-long bicycle lane between Fertőd and the border (Győr-Moson-Sopron County) cost as low as 45 million forints (EUR 9,157,823) per kilometre. The investment was 293 million forints (EUR 827,900) in total.

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Source: Magyar Narancs, Daily News Hungary

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2 Comments

  1. Facts says:
    09/08/2021 at 06:53

    Same sort of price as in London, where a ‘Quietways’ (single bike lane) cost between 1-2 million GBP per mile or on the wider bike ‘Superhighway’ bike routes, 10-12 million GBP per mile (a mile is 1.609 km).

  2. Louis says:
    09/08/2021 at 07:30

    Absolutely Disgusting Amount of Money
    This should have been spent on the *Hungarian Health Care*
    New Hospitals , & Equipment,
    So many Hospitals are literally Falling apart, with elderly patients inside them,

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