ROADS IN HUNGARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002500140008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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INFORMATION .,REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contsa$a
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$ICU$ITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY $`urigary
DATE OF INFO.
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Roads in Hungary
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 7 October 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. General.
a. The main roads in Hungary are in a fairly good state of repair. Only the
secondary roads are in poor repair, but since 1552 their condition has
improved eonaiderably.
b. The Utefu state `entrtprise (Utepitesi es Tehd*yA:ro$aiitL1la1e-b, .or
Road Building and Transport Enterprise), is responsible for looking
after the reads. 1,
During 1949-1952 aSq>a.erat'reconstruction program was initiated, the main
object of which as to increase the smooth,,flow of traffic. Particular
attention was paid to such things as,the position of streetcar lines'in a
road, bridge crossings, and crossovers.
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Most of the roads in Hungary have a madam surface, occasionally a concrete,
and rarely a tarmac surface. Most-of the macadam roads have an, asphalt or
concrete surface for a distance of 5-10.1pm. from towns.
2. Routes East of he Danube.
a. Ham tvan-Salg tar,ldn
1st class road, ma6adam B rface, stone slabs ( 10 x'10 cm.) laid on
rising S-bends.
b. Budapest-FIZesabony via Jaszbereny
1st class road, 6-8 m.,wide, used, by milk. trucks between JMszber4ny and
Nevess
c. Budapest -Szolnok-Sal szbe ' ,t van Budapest .
Used as a test road for military vehicles of vehicles owned by Utefu.
d. Jaszber6ny-Szolnok
1st-class rbad,? very good macadam surface.
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1st-class road, very good-aconcreteus.urface as far as Felsozsolca.
Miskolc-Satoral aujhely
lsttclass road, very good macadam surface.
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1st-class road ( Miskolc -Vadna-Sajov&r-Konyold). Very good macadam d1irface.
Surface partly concrete near Miskolc. 't'hose roads leading to large factories
are all built: 'gip take 10-ton trucks.
Miskolc -Ba"xjre"ve
f. Miskolc -.Hidasn$meti
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h. Miskolc-Debrecen via Folgar
i : Debrecen-Chop via .t~f' ? ,,egyhazR
Newly built in 1950;;broader than all the other roads in Hungary (at least
10 m.) Built specially to enable large amounts of supplies to be sent from
the U.USSB__as far as Nyiregyhaza. At Nyiregyhgza the road branches off in many
directions.
Good macadam surface;
J. Debrecen-Va,sar.osnamezy via Mateszalka
let-al ae? road, vjry S~Q, aau6i surf' 00, X.J skt of 1 T z?~ a v1