A total of 570 kilometres of national main and secondary roads will be renovated at 210 locations across Hungary this year, with almost 149 billion forints allocated to the projects, Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy said on Facebook on Tuesday.
Of the projects, 114 will be financed through the EU’s TOP Plusz programme, with a combined value of around 58.1 billion forints. These projects cover 324 kilometres of roads, accounting for nearly 57 per cent of the total network scheduled for renovation this year.
Vitézy said the figures demonstrated the importance of Hungary receiving the EU funds it is entitled to and using them, where possible, to renovate roads connecting villages, small towns and regional centres.
Most of the projects involve road sections only a few kilometres long. Vitézy noted that while a two- or three-kilometre road renovation might not appear to be a project of national significance, it can be highly important to local residents who may have been waiting for improvements for decades.
Road projects are being carried out in every county this year. Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County has 23 projects, followed by Pest County with 21, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg with 19, Heves with 18, Vas with 15 and Nógrád with 13. Bács-Kiskun and Zala each have 12 projects, while Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok has 11.
Baranya, Hajdú-Bihar and Komárom-Esztergom each have nine projects, Csongrád-Csanád and Veszprém eight each, Békés seven, Győr-Moson-Sopron six, Fejér five, Tolna four and Somogy one.
The minister stressed that in most locations the work would involve more than simple resurfacing, with the full road structure being reinforced to make roads safer and more durable over the long term.
Vitézy said one of the major mistakes of recent years had been the allocation of a significant share of transport funding to a handful of major projects and the motorway concession, while the condition of the national main and secondary roads used by people every day continued to deteriorate.
In 2024, the Hungarian Public Roads Nonprofit PLC was able to fully renovate just 0.1 per cent of the country’s entire road network, he said. Meanwhile, the budget for the Mohács Danube Bridge was increased by 76 billion forints ahead of the 2026 elections. According to Vitézy, that amount alone could have been enough to renovate nearly 400 kilometres of secondary roads across the country.
The minister said the government was not planning road construction as a series of campaign-driven projects, but instead intended to establish a multi-year, predictable national road renovation programme. The programme would combine domestic funding with recovered EU funds, with the aim of gradually improving the condition of the entire national road network rather than focusing on a small number of selected road sections.
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