The M51 motorway is a 2x2 road without hard shoulder between the 51 road and the
M5 motorway
The M5 is a motorway in England linking the Midlands with the South West England, South West. It runs from junction 8 of the M6 motorway, M6 at West Bromwich near Birmingham to Exeter in Devon. Heading south-west, the M5 runs east of West Brom ...
. It was part of
M0 motorway
The M0 motorway is a ringroad around Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The ring presently connects motorways M1, M7, M6, M5, M4, M3, M2, connecting currently to Highway 11. The whole length of the motorway is planned at about 108 km. A ...
until 2013 when it was renamed. Many people still mistakenly call it
M0. The bypass of road 51 around Dunaharaszti (a 2x1 road) is also included in M51.
History
The first section of the
M0 motorway
The M0 motorway is a ringroad around Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The ring presently connects motorways M1, M7, M6, M5, M4, M3, M2, connecting currently to Highway 11. The whole length of the motorway is planned at about 108 km. A ...
was constructed in 1988 as a bypass of main road 51 in
Dunaharaszti
Dunaharaszti (german: Harast) is a town in Pest County, Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary. It has a population of around 20,000 people.
Twin towns – sister cities
Dunaharaszti is twinned with:
* Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany
Sport
* Dunah ...
. It was planned that the next section of the M0 would have continued through a tunnel under populated areas in
Budapest's Eighteenth District, but due to its high cost, this plan was abandoned. As a result, due to the existence of
Ferenc Liszt International Airport and populated areas, the eastern section of the M0 had to be placed much further south than originally planned. Because of this change in planning, it was no longer possible to connect the old section to the rest of M0 because of its location, so a new section, immediately adjacent to the existing M0, had to be built between main road 51 and the M5 motorway, a 6.3 km long section inaugurated on August 13, 2013.
As a result of this, the section between main road 51 and the M5 motorway has been split from M0 and has become the M51 motorway, which, like its original function, passes between the M5 motorway, main road 51, and the M0 ring road.
See also
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Roads in Hungary
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Transport in Hungary
References
External links
National Toll Payment Services Plc.(in Hungarian, some information also in English)
Hungarian Public Road Non-Profit Ltd. (Magyar Közút Nonprofit Zrt.)National Infrastructure Developer Ltd.
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