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The construction of Hungary’s longest motorway is in full swing – the route is being planned, reports Világgazdaság. “Today we continued the meeting on the M9 motorway,” MP Gábor Bányai posted on social media on Wednesday.
Government politician Gábor Bányai is a Member of Parliament for Kiskunhalas (southern Hungary) and its region, and also a government commissioner: he was appointed for the complex development of the Southern Great Plain Economic Development Zone in May 2022.
This time, he reported that he had held talks about the southern link of the M9 motorway to the freight border crossing terminal with the designers, the Ministry of Construction and Transport and László Véh, Mayor of Tompa (southern Hungary).
It also emerged that the route of the motorway, the intersection of the new border crossing, and the state border were also discussed.
Preparations for the construction of the M9 are well underway, as the aforementioned Mr Véh stressed on one such occasion at the end of February. In his social media post, he also revealed more details about the new motorway. He wrote that on that day, he and Gábor Bányai, officials from the Ministry of Construction and Transport, and planners had visited the possible route of the Tompa junction of the M9 motorway and the planned location of the new freight terminal. He said that
a study design is currently being prepared and should be ready by August this year. Another task is to successfully complete the environmental permit procedure by September of next year.
Véh is optimistic on the basis of the discussion. Although he does not know when the work will actually begin, it is the closest he has ever come to having a motorway within reach of Tompa.
If the M9 were to be built in its entirety, it would be roughly 300 kilometers long.
Its aim is to connect the existing radial motorway network in Hungary.
The existing M9 highway is a ring road element to be built to solve the Budapest-centered radial motorway network. Its route has been designated as a guideline only, and its final route is still under discussion.
The existing M9 highway. Photo via Wikipedia
In addition, at the end of October last year, Magyar Építők reported that a total of 20 kilometers of the M9 motorway had been completed so far, but the M9 construction work could continue: a public tender has been launched for the design of three more sections of the M9 motorway.
Via Világgazdaság; Featured image via Pexels