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MKIF launches a video series on its motorway improvements

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2025. 08. 26. 16:33
The first part of their series "What's the track?!" has been released, in which viewers can learn about the preparations for the M1 extension and the beginnings of the huge work.

Ágoston Andréka will guide us through the details of the expressway developments planned for the next 10 years for MKIF. Their first video provides information on the stages of the M1 expansion, its preparation and several other interesting details.

"In the episode, we dispel some misconceptions about archaeological excavations, talk about the relocation of protected plants and the importance of engineering solutions, which are essential to get a comprehensive picture of a development of this scale."

– they write on their their social media page.

It takes four years

In their video, innovation engineer Domonkos Koch explains why the expansion of motorways is needed, as he explains:

"The M1 is not only the most congested motorway after the M0, it is also one of the oldest: some sections are already 50 years old. In the long term, the old track will no longer be able to cope with the increasing traffic, so MKIF will have to widen the M0-Bicske section to 2×3 lanes by 31 August 2028 and the Bicske-Concó rest (Ács-Bábolna) section to 2×3 lanes by 31 August 2029, while also making the emergency lanes suitable for temporary traffic, which requires a very complex management system."

And as the extension will affect many parts of a nature reserve, great care will be taken to relocate protected plant species living in the sections. Botanist Attila Mesterházy helped me to find out more about this. Archaeological documentation is also being prepared for each road section. Virág Szénásy-Laczkó of the National Institute of Archaeology talked about the huge amount of work involved in the trial excavations.

"In total, we're opening 92 sites with test plots, and we're about two-thirds of the way through those now," he says in the video.

Total transformation, unprecedented environmental protection

Domonkos Koch also pointed out that the lower road network will be renewed in a two-kilometre radius alongside the section of the M1 to be widened; on the other hand, they will have to make curve corrections around the structures at the intersections, which will also have to be rebuilt, as the wider road requires a different support allocation.

"Our plan," he added, "is to rebuild all the asphalt that has been mopped up. Because the track will be wider, the stopping lanes will be wider and the asphalt thickness will be one and a half times as thick, so we will have to put in so much more asphalt that we will most likely be able to reuse all the asphalt that has been cut up."

We now also know how diversions are built

The widening of the road will start in a 2+1+1 pattern, with two lanes on one side of the road in one direction and one in the opposite direction, and one lane on the other side of the road - so the widening of one side can be built, partly with temporary solutions. Traffic will then be diverted to the widened road, freeing up the full width of the opposite side, where the permanent structures can be built, and the same will be done on the opposite side.

The video also answers questions such as.

  • Why the M1?
  • In how long?
  • How much asphalt will be returned to the lower layers?
  • Can plants also travel?
  • Has there been any archaeological excavation here before?
  • What traffic patterns can be expected during the extension?

In what follows, there will be a separate detailed technical, archaeological and forestry episode to make the processes even clearer.

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