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Slovakia; Bratislava approves road budget for 2016

The Slovak capital Bratislava has set aside €44.5 million for road construction and repairs during 2016. The road budget is part of next year’s general budget of nearly €281 million from which public transport will receive just over €70 million and integrated transport systems will get nearly €3 million. World Highways reported in June that controversy continues to surround a proposed D4 motorway bypass around Bratislava and what tunnel option under the Little Carpathian Mountains is the best value.
December 18, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
The Slovak capital Bratislava has set aside €44.5 million for road construction and repairs during 2016.

The road budget is part of next year’s general budget of nearly €281 million from which public transport will receive just over €70 million and integrated transport systems will get nearly €3 million.

World Highways reported in June that controversy continues to surround a proposed D4 motorway bypass around Bratislava and what tunnel option under the Little Carpathian Mountains is the best value.

World Highways reported in March that only 3km of the 33km D4 in southwestern Slovakia have been built, a short stretch from the Austrian border at Jarovce to the junction with the D2 motorway. It opened in 1998. Since then the government has been studying the best routes to extend the D4 to the D1 motorway between Bratislava and Senec in order to create a southern bypass of Bratislava.

Some experts think that it will be enough simply to link up the existing D1 motorway, which heads out of the capital in a northeast direction towards Trnava, with the D2 motorway heading south into Hungary.

Others want to see the D4 motorway continue under the hills north of Bratislava to join the D2 motorway north of the city, in the direction of the Czech Republic.

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