The brand new Danube bridge connecting Kalocsá and Paks, named following Pál Tomori, the previous archbishop and normal of Kalocsá, in addition to the brand new part of the principle highway 512 related to it, have been handed over on Thursday.
The event creates a considerably shorter highway connection between the 2 sub-regions bordered by the Danube, i.e. between Kalocsa and the M6 motorway and between Kalocsa and Paks.
The journey time between Kalocsa and Paks is decreased from the earlier 40-50 minutes to roughly quarter-hour, and from Kalocsa you’ll be able to attain the M6 motorway in roughly 40 minutes.
The bridge Balázs Babel It was consecrated by the Archbishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét, who mentioned: the previous want of the folks dwelling right here got here true with the development of the bridge.
The bridge was named following Pál Tomori, the archbishop of Kalocsa, a warrior, soldier, and monk who lived 5 hundred years in the past, he defined.
Based on the press materials issued in regards to the funding, the brand new bridge is twice single-lane, with a complete size of 946.2 meters together with the two-sided wave space. The venture consists of the development of the 11.5-kilometer, two-lane part of freeway 512 between Kalocsa and Dunaszentgyörgy, in addition to the two-lane part between Paks and Gerjen that was accomplished final yr, and the bicycle path sections related to the freeway.
Duna Aszfalt Zrt. was the contractor for the HUF 92 billion funding.
– The brand new bridge connecting Kalocsá with Paks is a part of a posh, considerate, long-term nationwide growth and country-building plan – he declared Viktor Orban prime minister on the handing over of the Tomori Pál Bridge on Thursday in Kalocsá.
Viktor Orbán highlighted: the acknowledged intention of the federal government is to put in as many investments, industrial enterprises, i.e. financial energy south of the Zalaegerszeg-Székesfehérvár-Kecskemét-Debrecen axis as doable, and for this, roads and bridges are wanted.
A powerful sight
Photograph: MTI / Zoltán Máthé
The prime minister is satisfied that the significance of the areas of southern Hungary will enhance sooner or later, and the commerce and items site visitors between Serbia and Hungary performs a key position on this, which makes this area the “Gateway to the West”. As a part of the plan, the M6 freeway will likely be taken to the border, connecting the Croatian-Slavic areas with Hungary, he mentioned.
The following step will likely be to switch the site visitors from Serbia and, in its wake, the logistics facilities, investments, and a major a part of the manufacturing items to this space, in an effort to join the realm round Paks and Kalocsa to a quickly growing area.
Viktor Orbán additionally talked regarding that two of the nation’s most necessary strategic investments are being constructed on this space: the brand new nuclear energy plant will likely be situated in Pakso, and the Budapest-Belgrade railway line will cross not removed from Kalocsa, which is among the most necessary constructing blocks of this Hungarian country-building program.
