Crumbling Rock Wall in Nyergesújfalu to be Stabilised with the Help of EU Funding21 January 2009
The crumbling rock wall in Nyergesújfalu adjacent to Highway 10, which has now basically become a safety hazard will be stabilised with the help of funding amounting to over 200 million HUF granted within the framework of the New Hungary Development Plan.
The Assistance Contract of this development was signed on 19 January. Highway 10 and the railway line running below this road will become entirely safe as a result of the stabilisation work; it will be possible to use the bicycle road and footpath and road maintenance work and related costs will substantially decrease.
The Assistance Contract of the priority project helping stabilise the rock wall adjacent to Highway 10 to be implemented with the help of EU funding was signed on 19 January. The local government of the settlement was approved funding of over 206 million HUF needed to implement the project within the framework of the Central Transdanubia Operational Programme of the New Hungary Development Plan; the settlement has ensured own funds equivalent to 36 million HUF to complement this amount.
Rocks have regularly been rolling down the rock wall towering above the road during the past period; the debris fell on the bicycle road and Highway 10 at the foot of the wall, hence threatening the physical safety of anyone using these roads. Highway 10 is the main transport route of Nyergesújfalu and the region alike, which is why its protection represents a priority task.
Steel wire nets will be anchored to the wall and plants will be planted on the rock wall, currently still crumbling and representing a safety hazard, to stabilise the wall; consequently, transport will be made safer along a 258 meter long road stretch as a result of this wall rehabilitation work.
Costs relating to the main road and the train line, as well as the re-location of the bicycle road and footpath can be saved by rehabilitating the wall. This wall will also protect the registered archaeological site at the top of the wall.
The project is expected to be completed by winter 2009, from which point on Highway 10 will no longer represent a safety hazard and transport will become safer.