How to relieve congestion in the important agglomeration city of Debrecen

Építési és Közlekedési Minisztérium has published on TED the public procurement for the design of the Debrecen-Józsa northern relief road. The northern bypass of the Debrecen district will be built as a dual carriageway linking the M35 motorway and the 35 motorway, according to the tender.

The public procurement refers to the new Józsa junction, which was previously built on the M35 in the Colas project, one of the objectives of which is to ensure national road connections, while the other is to relieve traffic congestion in Józsa. The design must be carried out on the basis of the route investigation documentation previously prepared for the Debrecen local government.

23,000 cars use this corridor every day

The planned bypass will be a 3.4 km long, partly suburban new road, which will connect to the Yorizsa access road being built by the Debrecen municipality. The notice also indicates that the bypass will be connected to the main road 35 by a roundabout in the Kastély utca area. A parallel and access road (local public road) of about 600 metres will also be planned to link up with the relief road.

The investment in ÉKM is justified by the fact that the increasing volume of industrial and infrastructure developments in Debrecen are generating ever greater traffic in the region, while the number of commuters from Józsa and Hajdúböszörmény on main road 35 is also significant. According to dehir.hu, 10,000 vehicles arrive daily from Hajdúböszörmény, plus 13,000 vehicles from Józsa, which means that 23,000 cars appear every day on Böszörményi Road leading into Debrecen.

Another key element of local transport development is the four-lane extension of main road 35 to Józsa four-lane expansion of main road 35 to Józsa, which was also reported in our newspaper. The public procurement tender for the design of this project was also announced in September.

From the article of dehir.hu quoted above, it is also clear that the aim of the municipality of Józsa is to distribute the traffic towards Debrecen, and to do this they want to offer as many routes as possible. The deputy mayor of Józsa, Ákos Balázs, also said that "the on-ramp and the connecting road to the Józsa motorway junction, which is also the first section of the northern bypass of Józsa, are already under construction". Indirectly, the extension of the Domokos Márton road in Debrecen to bypass 354, which will help to relieve the Böszörményi road, also serves the same purpose.