M8 motorway (Hungary)

The M8 motorway is a planned Hungarian

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, which will, upon completion, connect the western part of the country, near the

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n border to

Szolnok Szolnok (; also known by other #Name and etymology, alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A City with county rights, city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, i ...

in the central part of the country. It will be partially concurrent with the

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Veszprém Veszprém (; german: Weißbrunn, sl, Belomost) is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county (comitatus or 'megye') of ...

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Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...

). The construction was reported to be started in 2007 (a few tiny sections were built, including the Pentele Bridge over the

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) and it had been planned to be completed around 2015 but as of 2013 the plans were not even finalized and the even the permission phase for several smaller parts took more than 2 years. The completed section of motorway is 8 km long, stretching from

Baracs Baracs is a village in Fejér county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeas ...

Apostag Apostag is a village and municipality in Bács-Kiskun county, in the Southern Great Plain region of southern Hungary. Croats in Hungary call this village ''Štagara''. Živko Mandić: Hrvatska imena naseljenih mjesta u Madžarskoj, Geog ...

. Its major junctions are with M6 (

), Route 6 (

Kisapostag Kisapostag is a village in Fejér county, Hungary. , it had a population of 1,414, living in 508 houses. About away is the nearby city of Dunaújváros. Kisapostag is near the M-6 highway and the Danube River, which is good for the water-tourism ...

), and Route 51 (

). It crosses over the

river, on the Pentele Bridge. 8 Proposed roads in Hungary {{Hungary-road-stub