The M70 motorway () is a motorway in Hungary, connecting the M7 motorway to the A5 motorway in Slovenia. The road is 21 km long and has a speed limit of 130 km/h. The last section was completed in 2006. After the opening of the last missing sections of the M7 on August 19, 2008, there is a direct motorway link from Budapest to Slovenia. The expressway originally consisted of two lanes between Letenye and Tornyiszentmiklós interchanges. As a four-lane, full profile motorway, it opened on December 13, 2019 (see the Hungarian article for references in Hungarian). It was built by the Colas Group.
Timeline SectionLengthOpenedNotesLetenye (M1) – TornyiszentmiklósSingle carriageway: November 2004Second carriageway: 13 December 2019Tornyiszentmiklós to the border Autumn of 2005Fully motorway
Route description The route is full length motorway. The maximum speed limit is 130km/h, with (2x2 lane road with stop lane).
{| class="wikitable" |- !scope="col"|County !scope="col"|km !scope="col"|Type !scope="col"|Destination !scope="col"|Notes |- |rowspan=9; align=center|Zala | style="background:#dfd;" align=center | 0 | style="background:#dfd;" align=center | | style="background:#dfd;"| – Budapest, Nagykanizsa
– Letenye → Zagreb (HR) | style="background:#dfd;"|The southern terminus of the motorway, and E653 route.
Kilometrage starting point
trumpet interchange |- | align=center | 1 | align=center | | Korongi híd | Length: 115.6 m
híd means Bridge |- | align=center | 2 | align=center | | Main road 7 – Letenye, Zagreb (HR) / Budapest
| align=center | 11 | align=center | |Csörnyeföld, Murarátka / Muraszemenye | Connecting to M70 Autohof |- | align=center | 15 | align=center | | Csörnyeföldi pihenőhely | parking, WC, and water
pihenőhely means Rest area |- | align=center | | align=center | | Kerka híd
| align=center | 18 | align=center | |Lenti, Tornyiszentmiklós
| align=center | 20 | align=center | | Tornyiszentmiklósi pihenőhely
| style="background:#dfd;" align=center| 21 | style="background:#dfd;" align=center| | style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós (H) – Pince (SLO) border crossing – Maribor towards to Ljubljana | style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós border crossing to Slovenia → A5 motorway.
The northern terminus of the motorway, and E653 concurrency.
Maintenance The operation and maintenance of the road by Hungarian Concession Infrastructure Development Plc. This activity is provided by this highway engineer. near Eszteregnye (M7), kilometre trench 219
Payment Since 2015, the M70 motorway is fully tolled road. Hungarian system has 2 main type in terms of salary:
1, time-based fee vignettes (E-matrica); Cars, vans and motorbikes up to 3.5 tonnes only need to buy a single vignette which costs 6,400 Hungarian forint (Ft) for 10 days, 10,360 Ft for 1 month and 57,260 Ft for a year, from 1 January 2024.
2, county vignettes (vármegyei matrica); the highway can be used instead of the national sticker with the following county stickers: Type of county vignette Available sectionZala full length (0 km – 21 km)
European route(s) Name Route21 km Letenye (0) – Avtocesta A5
Significant structures Bridge Korongi Bridge (; ) over the M7 motorway
See also
Roads in Hungary Transport in Hungary International E-road network
References
External links
Exit list of M70 National Toll Payment Services Plc. (in Hungarian, some information also in English) National Infrastructure Developer Ltd.