Reaching the border in 2014

Changing density of traffic and increasing transit caused by EU-expansion make it necessary that traffic routes – especially the ones in the frontier regions – are quickly extended. Therefore often funds of the EU-project ”TEN” and PPP-investments are used for financing. 

A short time ago the section Eibesbrunn – Schrick of the A5-motorway to Brno, which was realized as a public-private-partnership project, was opened. At the same time ASFINAG is already busily preparing the start of the construction of the missing link to the frontier.

When Austria and the Czech Republic signed their agreement in January 2009 linking both countries by a motorway could be stipulated. The bilateral agreement forms the basis for beginning the construction of an efficient road-link between Vienna and Brno. Opening this link for traffic has been scheduled for 2013.

Then the A5 on Austrian territory and the R52 on the Czech side, of which a 20km-section is still to be built, form the spine road between the two economic areas. This route is part of the pan-European main traffic network TEN (Trans-European-Network), providing supraregional linking of important economic areas. 

Having become an important traffic junction by its geographic position in the heart of Europe, Slovakia has to cope with an increasing amount of transit traffic. Thus the present infrastructure must be adjusted to the new conditions: the missing motorway sections on the east-west motorway D1 (Bratislava – Zilina – Kosice – Ukrainian frontier) will be constructed till 2013. For the period 2009 – 2014 Slovakia has also scheduled the construction of the motorway D3 (to Poland with a branch line to the Czech Republic).