Annual bridge measurements and biannual on-site inspections, as well as the results of the spring test lifts, have shown that 3 of the 38 bearings of the Kőröshegy Valley Bridge are badly worn and will soon need to be replaced. This will be the first such intervention (bearing replacement) on the 1872-metre-long bridge built in 2007.

The bearings are special elements of the bridge that allow the controlled movement of the bridge structure, ensuring the stability of the bridge. The structural elements, worn out over the last 17 years, weigh almost 10 tonnes and measure 2*2*0.35 metres each.

The bearing replacement requires a high level precision and can only be carried out on a bridge that is closed to traffic, and at the same time the bridge structure also has to be lifted a few centimetres away from the pillars. So, practically, we are lifting the bridge out of its place. 

For this reason, we plan with a 2-week full closure of the Kőröshegy Valley Bridge from 2 September. Considering the summer holiday period, the work has been scheduled for after the start of school to minimise disruption to traffic. 

During the motorway closure, the following designated diversion routes must be used:

• Those arriving from Budapest have to exit the motorway at the Zamárdi-Felső / Siófok-Nyugat junction and they can return at Balatonszárszó.
• Drivers coming from the border have to leave the motorway at the Balatonszárszó junction and can return at Zamárdi-Felső / Siófok-Nyugat.

Municipalities have been informed of the bridge closure and diversion routes. In addition, we announced the possible late summer, early September date of the bearing replacement in our April announcement.

Please note that the bearing replacement is a pre-planned work, the bridge is safe and in good condition. Furthermore, in parallel with the replacement, the anti-corrosion coatings on the expansion joints will be renewed in the entire cross-section (in 4 places).

In the levelling up, which started last year, we not only replace broken pavements on 538 km of express roads across the country by 2025 but also renew as many as 200 bridges and flyovers, including several major bridges such as the M7 valley bridge.

Please take care of our colleagues and always check our websites for information on current works before departure.

Thank you for your patience and understanding! We wish you a safe journey!

After a long holiday weekend, we are back at work across the country.

Over three nights (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), the exit branch of the Székesfehérvár-Centrum junction on the M7 motorway towards Lake Balaton will be renewed.

1^st night: Milling, deposition of bonding layer
2^nd night: Laying down the top layer
3^rd night: Painting of pavement signs

Due to heavy traffic, we only work at night (between 8 pm and 6 am).

And next week, the junction on the side towards the capital comes next, with the junction branches expected to be rebuilt between 7 pm and 6 am on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Please note that these works do not take place on the main track! As promised, there will be no scheduled asphalting on the M1 or M7 in August.

On the way to Lake Balaton, we have not changed the pavement since the beginning of the holiday season, to ensure easier access to the lake!

All works will be announced in good time and in advance on www.mkif.hu and www.utinform.hu. 

Please prepare for possible speed limitations around the night work locations! We kindly ask everyone to drive with extra care along the diversions!

We are on track. Together, with you.

Our operation and maintenance fleets are set to expand in several phases this year

• with brigade vehicles
• with foreman cars
• with road patrol cars
• with heavy-duty and crane trucks

More than 150 new vehicles will arrive in 2024.

The new cars, unlike the old ones, will be white.

For better visibility, they are equipped with reflective stickers that cover the largest possible surface.

Please pay special attention to our colleagues!

On Thursday evening, Hubert Kós won the first Hungarian gold medal of the 2024 Olympics in the men’s 200m backstroke final, and on Friday evening, after 52 years, Gergely Siklósi, Máté Koch, Tibor Andrásfi and Dávid Nagy made history, as the men’s épée team won gold again after 1972.

Go Hungarians! To all the Olympians representing Hungary in Paris, congratulations and thank you!

The congratulations were also reported by heol.hu: https://www.heol.hu/helyi-sport/2024/08/m3-ason-gratulalnak-olimpiai-bajnoknak

1.8 million square metres of Hungary’s express roads already repaved this year

This year’s levelling up works on the express roads operated by MKIF Hungarian Concession Infrastructure Development Plc. in Hungary have reached the half-way point. 

By 1 August, we replaced more than 1.8 million square metres of worn out, broken pavement with new asphalt on seven express roads (M1, M15, M3, M30, M35, M4, M7) in 98 different locations of the country. Around 480 km of expressway lanes have been renewed so far this year, including several junction branches and rest areas(Please note that the works data are given in lane lengths. Lane length means that if, for example, a 1 km section of a motorway is completely renewed on both sides and on both (inside and outside) lanes, then a 4 km lane length of the express road section concerned has been levelled up). For this, we used 300 thousand tonnes of asphalt. 

¾ of this year’s work have been done on the M7 and M3. On these two motorways alone, we laid 1.4 million square metres of new asphalt. In addition, 72 bridges and flyovers and 9 rest stops were renewed in the last four months across the country. 

This year’s levelling up started on 20 March, after the Easter long weekend, and is expected to last until the end of November or early December.

The levelling up, as the biggest road renovation in Hungary’s history, started in 2023 and will last until 2025. This covers 43% of the 1,237 km of the main track we took over for operation, renovation and development. This corresponds to 538 km. During this 3-year period, 200 bridges and flyovers will be renewed and the drainage systems and any slope failures of 50-60 junctions will be fixed. In 2023, 19% of the main track was given new asphalt, and we replaced and repaired not only the top wearing layer where it was necessary but also the underneath bonding layer and deeper structural parts. We plan to renew another 20% of the main track by the end of this year. 

Please note that in August, due to increased transit traffic on the M1 and M7 motorways, there will be no asphalt works planned at all in either direction. And on the M7, we have not conducted any work on the M0 towards Lake Balaton since the start of the holiday period between the M0 and Balatonvilágos.

The works are necessary to ensure that travellers can use the road in good condition. Please follow our website and always check the current traffic situation before departure and plan longer journeys during the renovations.

All diversions will be communicated in a timely and continuous manner via our website, Facebook page and ÚTINFORM. 

We kindly ask for your understanding and support during the renovations.

We are on track. Together, with you.

The Hungarian Concession Infrastructure Development Plc. (MKIF Zrt.) is looking forward to the Formula 1 race weekend. A VIP lane was developed for our colleagues, drivers and teams on the M3 between the M0 and the Hungaroring. In addition, our staff have placed more than 100 traffic signs on and around the motorway to make it easy for everyone to find their way around.

Similar to last year, a motorbike ambulance and a tow truck will be on standby near the Hungaroring to provide fast and efficient assistance and, if necessary, we will distribute water in the event of a traffic jam, as we did last year. Our colleagues can also assist the police in directing traffic, if necessary. We ask everyone to follow the instructions of the police.

The 39^th Hungarian Grand Prix will be held between 19 and 21 July in Mogyoród. The Hungaroring is the second venue (after Monza) to be on the calendar without interruption.

On the section of the M3 near the capital, longer journey times and congestion can be expected during the race weekend. During the race, the number of vehicles using the motorway is a third higher than in an average weekend (up to 46,000 cars a day instead of the average 36,000). Drivers on the M3 motorway can approach the circuit from the Mogyoród / Hungaroring junction at kilometres 19 and 23. The temporary VIP lane is reserved for authorised users only.

From the direction of the Liszt Ferenc International Airport and the M5 motorway, we recommend the M0 motorway – M31 motorway as the ideal route. From the M31 drivers have to drive onto the M3 motorway towards Budapest, from where you can also access the Hungaroring via the junction at km 23 or 19. 

The temporary traffic rules will be indicated by yellow information signs and variable message signs above the motorways. To avoid congestion, on Sunday afternoon, drivers travelling on the M3 motorway to Budapest should take the M31 motorway – M0 motorway from Gödöllő. After the race, you can drive onto the M3 motorway at both the junction at km 19 and the Mogyoród junction. 

We kindly remind you that the race is on the Hungaroring, not on the motorways! 

MKIF Zrt. wishes you a safe journey!

Idén is folytatódik közlekedés-kultúra sorozatunk a Dumaszínház Our driving culture series continues this year with Dumaszínház comedians!

• Driving home dead tired after a festival? – No way!
• We’ve run out of petrol, shall we walk? – Of course not!
• Racing that ends with a crash? – Oh come on!
• Going on a family holiday? – Maybe tomorrow…

In this year’s episodes you can meet Fruzsina Ács, Balázs Máté Szabó, Péter Elek, Orsolya Sipos, Attila Csenki and Ádám Török!

Join us!

MKIF Hungarian Concession Infrastructure Development Plc. is supporting the operation of one of the Peter Cerny Foundation’s ambulances with 66 million forints, ensuring the smooth operation of the flagship organisation of Hungarian premature and newborn rescue for three months. 

The relationship between the company that operates, maintains and renovates most of the country’s expressway network and the Peter Cerny Foundation started last year. In August 2023, the company supported the purchase of a so-called blood gas analyser for ambulances through the Pro Filii Foundation. From a drop of blood, the device can provide doctors with life-saving information already on the spot about what care the troubled little one needs. The device saved lives on the very first day.

Tamás Németh, CEO of MKIF Zrt. said:

“MKIF Zrt. was established to provide a higher level of service and to ensure the smoothest and safest possible use of the domestic expressway network managed by the Company. We feel it is our duty to support an organisation that provides the same safety for premature and newborn babies in the Central Hungary region. Our company is proud to be able to support this socially important and special task once again through the Pro Filii Foundation and to be able to help those who help.”

Having celebrated its 35^th anniversary in recent days, the Peter Cerny Foundation for the Treatment of Sick Premature Babies has been operating its 0-24 premature baby ambulance and transport ambulance service since 1989. In the Central Hungary region with a population of 4 million, the Foundation ensures the optimal start to life and quality survival of 2,800 out of 35,000 premature and sick newborns every year. Since its inception, it has been involved in the rescue and professional transport of more than 95,000 premature and sick newborn babies. Dr. Zsolt Somogyvári, President of the Peter Cerny Foundation, said: 

“Sometimes even the helper needs help, and the support of MKIF Zrt. through the Pro Filii Foundation came at the right time. I would like to express our deepest gratitude for the quick and literally life-saving support on behalf of all the professionals at the Peter Cerny Foundation Ambulance Service, which will enable us to rescue and transport nearly 700 premature babies this summer.”

The European Road Safety Charter is the largest civil society platform for road safety.

More than 4,000 public and private organisations have signed up to the Charter under the leadership of the European Commission.

Together, members form a community where they can share their road safety expertise and best practices, inspiring and learning from each other.

Last year, we also carried out night-time diversion installations and other works based on foreign models.

We will not stop here, we will continue to develop Hungary’s expressway network and make it safer, based on further best practices!

We are on track. Together, with you.

The second season of our BE SAFE! series has started.

Last spring, we launched a series of videos on our social media platforms, addressing the most critical issues of safe motorway driving.

We continue the series this year, featuring driving instructor Zoltán Tóth as Imola Kelemen’s guest.

The new episodes cover topics such as emergency braking, talking on the phone while driving, gaze selection and tyre pressure.

Some of the episodes were shot on a test track under controlled conditions.

Join us!