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the environment and living conditions for inhabitants of the Eastern and North-
Eastern parts of the Budapest agglomeration.
[Emphasis added]
Originally, the preparatory phase was to only last until the third quarter of 2001,
with construction running from 2002 to the third quarter of 2006. Feasibility studies for
this section are still underway, however. However, although ISPA was expected as early
as 2002, to date, no EU funding has been approved for this section. In terms of local
resistance, less controversy is expected to ensue over this particular section since the
environmental areas to be crossed are considered less environmentally sensitive, and
local communities to be less affected. This impression, of course, may change as new
NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard) groups rise to the fore, new details from the feasibility
studies emerge and new land use development plans in the wake of (or rather,
anticipating) the ring road become public.
9.2.4 The Western Section and the M0 Bridge: New priorities from 2002
Although neither foreseen under TINA nor under the previous Hungarian
government national highway plans, the Budapest municipality, with the support of the
new socialist national government, has recently pushed the idea of constructing a new
bridge over the Danube and continuing the M0 on the Western side. As a July 4, 2002
CEE Bankwatch/CAAG press release reads:
Two environmental NGOs, the Central and Eastern European Bankwatch Network and
the Clean Air Action Group, were astonished to learn of the June 26 statement by
István Csillag, Hungarian Minister of Economics and Transport, and Gábor Demszky,
the Mayor of Budapest, saying that the Municipality can now count on the
government's support in constructing … a bridge over the Danube north of Budapest
and sections of the M0 ring road on the river's western bank. The statement also