Debrecen4U
August 22, 2024
Road construction on Gohér Street has started
Debrecen will continue to pay special attention to the development of transport in 2024.
The city is currently undergoing many large-scale road renovations, road construction and bicycle path construction. These are aimed at ensuring comfortable and safe transport conditions for people living in the city and those coming from the agglomeration.
At a press conference held on the 16th of August 2024 at the intersection of Gohér Street and Délibáb Street, Deputy Mayor and Municipal Representative of the area Lajos Barcsa said that the large-scale road repair works have reached the stage where, following a public initiative, asphalting can take place in streets where residents have been waiting for that for many years. The Municipality of Debrecen is able to do all this, typically on its own resources, because the economic development results that the city has achieved in the past are starting to pay off. He indicated that the current investment site, Gohér Street, will be moved to his constituency from the constituency of Deputy Mayor and Municipal Representative Diána Széles, through the change of individual representative district boundaries related to this year’s municipal election, until now the border was Vág Street.
As the city’s budget allowed, there have been road improvements in Gohér Street before, in 2018 and 2020, but the process will reach the point with the whole street being paved by 2024. The current development will involve the asphalting of a 151-metre-long, 3.5 metre-wide section of road at an estimated cost of HUF 79 million. Prior to this, in the spring, Debrecen Waterworks Ltd. invested HUF 69.5 million in replacing the ageing drinking water mains and the supply pipes on this section, in order to avoid any future failures that might lead to the new road body having to be dismantled.
Lajos Barcsa also mentioned that in his constituency a road construction project was completed in Bezerédj Street this year, which was also much awaited by the people living there. The citizens of the city have a legitimate expectation that they should be able to travel in European conditions rather than on dusty roads relatively close to the city centre.
It was also said at the press conference that “unfortunately, the asphalting of the still unpaved streets in the city is hindered not only in one case by the fact that the municipality must have the area defined in the relevant regulations for the implementation, the provision of which often requires lengthy negotiations or even expropriation. Planning, obtaining the necessary permits and construction can only begin after the legal status of the area has been settled and funds have been secured”.
