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increasing attention to while addressing the sixth and last proposition of this study in
more detail, namely the “Local Impacts” proposition. According to this proposition, the
“ecological modernization” investment rationales favored by the EU tend to
underestimate the negative local impacts of large-scale infrastructures. I will show how
each of the other four discursive frameworks adds an important dimension to the overall
issue. As we will see, not all of them can be adequately addressed within the current
decision-making system.
9.2 Description of the M0 Including a Chronology of International Funding
The planned circular motorway around Budapest, the so-called M0, constitutes a
key node in the Trans-European Networks. Four of the ten TEN corridors pass through
Hungary, and all four of them intersect in the Budapest area, with one of them, the river
Danube, passing right through the very center of the city. The exact bypass locations of
the other corridors were not precisely defined at the time that the Helsinki corridors were
decided upon (see figures 7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, and especially 7.11-7.13). The M0 is to
connect the eastern motorways M1 from Vienna/Bratislava (Corridor IV) and the M7
from Lake Balaton (Corridor V/Vb) with the M5 (Corridor IV) and the (currently nonexisting)
M6 going South to the Former Yugoslavia and Romania (Corridor Vc) as well
as the M3 going east to the Ukrainian border (continuation Corridor V) and the M2 going
North. Figure 9.1 shows how the M0 connects to the major arteries of the city. Note that
the 1998 base map does not show any alignment for last section in the West. This section
of the M0 was neither part of TINA nor of the Hungarian government’s long-term
motorway plan (also compare figures 7.11 and 7.13). Nevertheless, there are now