From the capital through the agglomeration to the county border, the main road 31 will be upgraded - 2×2 lane section planned by Főmterv

An important step has been taken in the project to develop approximately 46 kilometres of the 31 main road. Based on the public procurement data available online data shows that the best and winning bid in the tender announced last autumn was submitted by Főmterv Zrt.. The leading Hungarian design office will work on a net value of HUF 2.344 billion, and their task will be to prepare the licence and implementation plans, as well as to participate in obtaining official permits.

The 121-kilometre-long Route 31 starts in Budapest and runs through the north-western part of the Great Plain to Dormand in Heves County. The project, which has just started, will include a continuous section between the M0 motorway junction at Ecser and Nagykáta, on the border of Pest and Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok counties, and will be mostly on new tracks, with some upgrades to existing ones, according to the company.

The first 4.2 kilometres from Budapest will be 2×2 lanes, the next 41.6 kilometres will be 2×1 lanes, all of which will be combined with a cycle path parallel to the main road.

According to the Főmterv, the road will follow the route marked in red on the map above.

Two impressive bridges and a bark tunnel are also under construction

The task also includes

• two bridges, approximately 540 and 582 metres long,
• at km 5, a 2×1 lane through-road with a length of about 490 m,
• and the planning of the replacement of utilities parallel to the road.

Another important part of the work is, among other things, the preparation for the expansion of the Monor engineering site Magyar Közút NZrt. engineering site in Monor, where BIM (Building Information Modeling) solutions will be used to prepare the building construction plans.