12/19/2024 Updated 8 hours ago | Source: ČTK, ČT24 On Thursday, the road authorities inaugurated the three connecting sections of the D55 highway, which connect Babice in the Uherskohradišťsko area with Bzencem in the Hodonínsko area. With the project, a continuous track section of more than 21 kilometers was completed. In addition, an almost ten-kilometer long section of the first section of the D49 highway between Hulín and Holešov in the Kroměřížské region was opened, as well as another section on the D48. According to Transport Minister Martin Kupka, the D55 highway will significantly reduce the traffic burden of the affected settlements, on which ten thousand people a day , in some places up to twenty thousand vehicles pass through. "With the new sections, travel will become faster in the affected counties of Zlín and South Moravia towards Austria and Slovakia, and in the future the D55 will be critical for traffic between northern Czech and southern destinations," said Kupka. Babice and Staré Město In the Uhersko region, public road operators have been working on the section between The section between Staré Město and Moravský Písek in the Hodonín area was completed in three years and is 8.8 kilometers long.
In the latter part, a 4.1-kilometer section between Moravský Písek and Bzenec is already open, it has been under construction for two years. While the first two sections are fully usable, the section between Moravský Písek and Bzenec is only partially open, with one lane in each direction, due to construction serious geological challenges and high groundwater levels hindered the work. According to Ondřej Šuch, the spokesperson of the construction company Skanska, the works on the two lanes that have not yet been completed are expected to last until the middle of next year. Complete completion is expected by 2033. On Kunovice, Ostrožská Nová Ves, Uherský Ostroh and It passes through Veselí nad Moravou and carries transit traffic from road II/427, which connects Staré Město, Kostelany nad Moravou, Nedakonice, Polešovice and Moravský Písek. Both are heavily overloaded. Recently, the workers have installed large protective nets to protect the birds along the constructed highway, the D55 is the first road equipped in this way in the Czech Republic. Last year, near Napajedla, the construction of the bridge over the Morava River in the Zlín area also started, which will also be part of the D55. ŘSD plans to open this next autumn. Construction of the connecting seven-kilometer section between Napajedla and Babice is planned to be started by ŘSD in 2026, and completion is expected in three years. Since 2023, builders have been working on a more than 7.5 kilometer section of the D55 highway between Olomouc and Kokory in the Přerov area. The builders plan to open it next year. Once fully built, the D55 will connect Central, South-East and South Moravia for more than a hundred kilometers and join the D2 motorway at Břeclav. The entire route is expected to be ready by 2033. Opening of the first section of the D49 highway between Hulín and Holešov On Thursday, the ŘSD opened an almost ten-kilometer section of the D49 highway between Hulín and Holešov in the Kroměříž area, which cost approximately 6.5 billion crowns without VAT . The following section of more than seven kilometers between Holešov and Fryšták in the Zlín region is still under construction. "This is a temporary opening, which we implemented as best as possible in the given time frame," said Radek Mátl, CEO of ŘSD. According to him, the ŘSD is currently waiting for the permits to connect the D49 to an inferior road in the vicinity of Fryšták. According to expectations, the construction permit may become legally binding in the first quarter of next year. The contractor is then given approximately three months to create the temporary connection.
The entire 17.3-kilometer project is almost complete, but the end of the section cannot be connected to the current road infrastructure network. ŘSD originally planned to open the entire section of the road section between Hulín and Fryšták by the end of this year, but recent legal challenges have caused complications. As a result, they have to renegotiate the objections filed by the Děti Země organization after the Supreme Administrative Court ordered a re-evaluation of the process. Having met the new approach requirements, the motorway is now open for use and work is progressing to open further sections. The D49 motorway should connect the central and eastern part of Morava with Slovakia. , diverting part of the passing traffic to Zlín, Otrokovice, Holešov, Hulín and other surrounding settlements of its interior areas. With the completion of further D49 sections, the highway will hopefully connect the Central and East Moravian region with Western Slovakia.