The ramps to and from M7 motorway at the junction of Iparos út in Érd are to be reconstructed by the end of next year and two new ramps are to be built at the junction of M0/M7 motorways at Törökbálint, to be connected to road 8103 by a roundabout, Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner announced in Érd on 24 March, 2014.
The Administrative Board of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) held its first session this year on 19 March, 2014. The session was attended by Minister of State for Energy Affairs of the Ministry of National Development Pál Kovács, newly appointed alternate member of the board.
One of the two FLIRT units that have recently arrived in Hungary has been presented to the public for the first time by representatives of the Ministry of National Development, MÁV-START Ltd. and Stadler Ltd. at the refurbished railway station of Kápolnásnyék today. Following strict technical and authority control and certification, the first new multiple unit is expected to be put into use in traffic this autumn. The forty-two new FLIRT trains to be received by autumn are to be used along the Budapest suburban railway lines. The new multiple units offer travel conditions meeting the requirements of our time; through their operation, the railway company is to save billions at the annual level.
The programme that offers knowledge, skills and opportunity to enable participation in the digital world is to be extended to the county seat of Nógrád early this autumn, Minister of State for Infocommunication Vilmos Vályi-Nagy announced in Miskolc on 18 March 2014 on the occasion that the first successful applicants were presented with the appliances they had been awarded within the framework of the Digital Community Programme.
The hundred-page summary of the National Transport Strategy (NTS), to be discussed by the Government in the near future, is based on analyses and preliminary studies of over 5 thousand pages, Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh said at the 15th Conference on Transport Development and Investment of the Association for Transport Sciences in Bükfürdő on 18 March, 2014.
Minister of State for Infrastructure Pál Völner headed the Hungarian delegation at the Brussels meeting of the transport ministries of EU Member States on 14 March, 2014. The participants approved a general approach to the regulation proposal on the European Railway Agency (ERA).
Senior officials of the transport ministries of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia signed a memorandum on establishing a high-level working group in Brussels on 14 March, 2014.
Hungary is an attractive investment spot for British enterprises, Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh said at the inauguration of the new British Business Centre in Budapest on Friday. The centre was inaugurated by British Minister of State for Trade and Investment Ian Livingston and Zsuzsa Németh.
Minister of National Development Zsuzsa Németh delivered an address to celebrate the completion of the biggest sewage development project in Hungary in Diósd on 6 March, 2014. Up to 130 thousand inhabitants in the Érd Region may have everyday benefits from the investment.
On occasion of the International Energy Saving Day, seven cities and towns opened their gates to people interested in district heating.