Komarno bridge on schedule despite cost and environmental protests

Slovakia’s transport minister said he will do everything possible to finish on time a new bridge connecting Komano with the Hungarian town of Komarom. Construction started last year on the €117 million bridge over the Danube River between the Hungarian town of Komarom and the Slovak town of Komarno. Around 85% of the cost of the bridge - designed by Hungarian engineering firm Pont-Terv - will be covered by European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility. Completion is planned for winter 2019. Transport m
July 13, 2018 Read time: 2 mins
You say Komarno, I say Komarom: let’s not call the whole bridge off (photo courtesy Pont-Terv engineering)
Slovakia’s transport minister said he will do everything possible to finish on time a new bridge connecting Komano with the Hungarian town of Komarom.

Construction started last year on the €117 million bridge over the Danube River between the Hungarian town of Komarom and the Slovak town of Komarno.

Around 85% of the cost of the bridge - designed by Hungarian engineering firm Pont-Terv - will be covered by 1116 European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility. Completion is planned for winter 2019.

Transport minister Árpád Érsek made his comments during a recent on-site inspection of the cable stayed bridge and amid protestors concerned over the project’s costs as well environmental concerns about the planned bypass around Komarno.
 
The new bridge was rejected by local residents in their petition during planning, according to local media.

It was announced in mid-2016 that the Hungarian companies Hidepito and Meszaros es Meszaros had won the tender for the 600m bridge but with a price tag of just over €91 million, according to Hungarian media. It was also reported at the time that the project had suffered several delays because of changes to procurement rules in Hungary.

Hungary’s National Infrastructure Development Company (NIF) issued and awarded the tender. The new bridge will be around 200m from the steel Elizabeth Bridge.

In March last year, the 2465 European Commission approved around €100 million towards the estimated €117 million for the project. Hungary will get €52.5 million and Slovakia will receive €47.6 million under the EU's Connecting Europe Facility.

The two cities, although divided by the Danube, have at times been one city under various central European kingdoms.

Komárno is Slovakia's principal port on the Danube. It is also the centre of the Hungarian community in Slovakia, which makes up around 60% of the town's population.

Hungary’s Komárom and Slovakia’s Komárno are also connected by a more recently built so-called lifting bridge.

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