Since 2010, Hungary has changed speed in all respects, including the development of the public road network and the construction of the expressway network, the Minister of Finance stated on Tuesday, at the handover ceremony of the section of the M4 expressway between Abony and Törökszentmiklós.
Mihály Varga highlighted at the event held at the Szolnok rest area of the more than 27-kilometer, two-lane highway, realized with net domestic resources of HUF 125 billion: the length of the expressway network, which was less than 1,300 kilometers in 2010, now exceeds 1,900 kilometers. Over the past three years, more than 100 kilometers of new highways and highways have been built annually, for which the government spent a total of HUF 3,600 billion under the road program, mostly from domestic sources, he added.