M44 expressway (Kecskemét – Kunszentmárton – Békéscsaba)

Second stage of the Kecskemét–Szentkirály section: a full cloverleaf interchange where the M44 meets the M5, plus 1.8 km of 2x2 expressway. Until it opens the M44 and M5 connect only towards Budapest at the Kecskemét-Centrum junction. The investment portal gives construction start 13 May 2024, a completion deadline of 28 February 2027 and a net contract sum of HUF 41,981,774,352. The contract date is not given, so the figure has no price year and no award revision is recorded. The drawn length covers only the mapped construction ways and is shorter than the sourced 1.8 km.

First stage: 32.3 km of 2x2 expressway without hard shoulder from road 5 at Kecskemét to Szentkirály, with a junction at road 441. The notice of 6 June 2021 gave 32.2 km and 14 structures. Hódút Kft. won at HUF 106.996 billion (announced January 2022; net or gross not stated). Works officially began on 30 March 2022 and the section opened on 15 April 2025. It runs on the alignment first planned as the M8.

4.6 km of 2x2 expressway without hard shoulder. The design-build contract with Közgép (HUF 35.49 billion) also covers the 4623 side-road renewal, a 3.5 km Szentkirály bypass, the 4622 side-road renewal, a roundabout and 3.4 km of road 44, so it is not the cost of the expressway alone. A second Közgép contract of HUF 8.12 billion covers 20.3 km of road 44 and is not recorded here. Design and build began in February 2020 (month only given) and the section opened on 7 May 2024. The contract date is not given, so the figure has no price year and no award revision is recorded.

9.9 km including the new Tisza bridge (552 m), opened in two parts: 6.7 km, with the bridge, on 15 December 2021 and 3.2 km on 21 September 2021 (from the Tiszakürt / Tiszaug junction to the temporary end of the Tiszakürt – Kondoros section). The award is dated by press reports of 28 April 2018 that named Duna Aszfalt at HUF 51.3 billion. The NIF page gives construction start July 2018 and a contract sum of HUF 51,308,917,861 (VAT basis not stated). The boundary with the next lot is placed by the sourced length of 9.9 km along the drawn line, not at the mapped Tiszakürt junction.

First of three construction stages of the 61.2 km Tiszakürt – Kondoros section (opened 2 October 2019): Duna Aszfalt – Hódút consortium, HUF 56.5 billion. The three stages were tendered together (result announced 15 November 2016, contracts signed December 2016, foundation stone 21 December 2016, works from early 2017). The sources give no stage lengths. Length measured from OpenStreetMap geometry between the end of the Lakitelek – Tiszakürt lot (placed by its sourced length) and the Kunszentmárton junction. The three stage lengths sum to 59.4 km against 61.2 km sourced for the section.

Second stage of the Tiszakürt – Kondoros section (opened 2 October 2019): EuroAszfalt – Swietelsky – Soltút – A-Híd consortium, HUF 43.98 billion. Includes the 450 m Berkó Dezső bridge over the Hármas-Körös. Length measured from OpenStreetMap geometry, cut at the Kunszentmárton and Kardos / Csabacsűd junctions.

Third stage of the Tiszakürt – Kondoros section (opened 2 October 2019): Duna Aszfalt – Hódút consortium, HUF 45.2 billion. The sources give no stage lengths. Length measured from OpenStreetMap geometry between the Kardos / Csabacsűd junction and the start of the Kondoros – Békéscsaba lot, which is placed by that lot's sourced length of 17.6 km (the section ends east of the mapped Kondoros junction).

17.6 km with one grade-separated junction (Békéscsaba-nyugat / Kétsoprony). The site was handed over in mid-February 2018 (month only recorded) and the section opened on 11 December 2020, 1.5 months before the 31 January 2021 deadline. Duna Aszfalt was named winner on 25 October 2017 at HUF 41.4 billion. Boundary placed by the sourced length: the start is 17.6 km before the end of the drawn line, east of the mapped Kondoros junction.