List of motorways and expressways in Slovakia

Motorways and expressways in Slovakia

 in operation

 under construction

 in planning

This list of motorways and expressways in Slovakia gives an overview of the high-level road network in Slovakia . There are currently 503 km of motorways ( Slovak : Diaľnice , singular Diaľnica , literally: trunk road) and 307 km of expressways (Slovak: Rýchlostné cesty , singular Rýchlostná cesta ). In addition, 76 km of motorways and 24 km of expressways are under construction.

history

Motorways in Slovakia according to plans and completion status in 1998

Plans to build a motorway across what was then Czechoslovakia first came up during the time of the first Czechoslovak Republic . In 1939 the groundbreaking ceremony took place in the Czech part of the country, but in Slovakia these plans did not get beyond the drafting stage.

It was not until 1963, in socialist Czechoslovakia, that plans to build a motorway network were drawn up again by government resolution 286/1963, but these were more limited than those in the Czech part. In addition to the main D1 highway from Prague via Brno, Žilina and Košice to the border with the Soviet Union (402 km in Slovakia), the D2 from Brno to Bratislava (58.4 km in Slovakia) and D61 from Bratislava to Trenčín (107, 8 km), both with connection to the D1, are planned.

After the renewed start of construction near Prague in 1967, work also began in the Slovak part of the country in April 1969 with the 28.3 km long Bratislava – Malacky line. In November 1973 it was opened as the first section of the motorway in Slovakia. When Czechoslovakia separated, there were almost 200 km of motorways and around 50 km of expressways.

The motorway and expressway network planned today is based on government resolution 162/2001, which defined four highways (D1, D2, D3 and D4) and six expressways (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6). As a result of later additions, the R7, R8 and R9 expressways were added. In contrast to Germany, the numbering is not geographical, but sequential.

The company Národná diaľničná spoločnosť, as (literally the National Motorway Company) has been responsible for the administration and maintenance since 2005 , previously it was the Slovenská správa ciest (Slovak Road Administration) organization, which has only managed first-order roads since then. Private operators are Granvia , which operates parts of the R1 expressway, and the Obchvat Nula consortium , which builds and operates parts of the D4 and R7 expressways near Bratislava. Further PPP projects are in discussion.

Top speed

D1 near Trnava

The maximum speed limit for cars and motorcycles on Slovakian motorways and expressways is 130 km / h. For trucks and cars with trailers, 90 km / h applies and for buses 100 km / h. A maximum of 90 km / h may be driven on motorways or expressways within built-up areas. In addition, the network may not be used by vehicles with a maximum speed of less than 80 km / h (or 65 km / h within built-up areas). In two-tube tunnels, either 80 km / h or 100 km / h applies, in single-tube tunnels 80 km / h.

A special case is the six-lane section Bratislava-Vajnory-Trnava of the D1 motorway, where there is a speed limit of 110 km / h (5–19 h) due to the lack of hard shoulder.

The speed limit of 100 km / h is often signposted on single-lane sections.

toll

Since 1995 there has been a toll on motorways and expressways in Slovakia. For all vehicles under 3.5 tonnes (excluding motorcycles), the fees are charged through a vignette system (2017 annual vignette: 50 euros, 30-day vignette: 14 euros, 10-day vignette: 10 euros). On January 1, 2016, adhesive vignettes were replaced by electronic vignettes (called "eznámka"), which can be purchased online, via a smartphone app and at selected business locations (e.g. petrol stations, border crossings).

On January 1, 2010, the vignette system was replaced by route-related truck tolls (called "emýto") based on GPS (similar to the Austrian GO-Box ) for all vehicles over 3.5 tons.

Exceptions to the vignette requirement are: City motorway through Bratislava on D1 and D2, through Banská Bystrica on R1, Nitra feeder on R1A and single-lane parts of the D3, R2, R3, R4 and R6.

The D4 is a toll road starting at the border at Kittsee on the 2 km long stretch to Bratislava.

Motorways ( Diaľnice )

D2 in Bratislava - Petržalka

Považský Chlmec tunnel on the D3

According to the Slovak Road Traffic Act and the structural engineering standard, the Slovak motorways are roads that can only be used by motorized traffic; all other road users are prohibited from using it. They must always be free of intersections and the lanes for each direction must be separate and have at least two lanes. The overtaking ban applies to all vehicles over 7.5 t. The towing is only up to the next exit or parking permits. Single-lane motorways are not signposted as motorways, but as motorways and are known as “expressways on the route of the future motorway”, since the standard does not recognize a single-lane motorway, although one-lane motorways are often used in everyday life.

Since 2009, the motorways have been signposted in red signs with white street numbers consisting of a preceding "D" and a single-digit number. From 2005 to 2009, only red signs with a single-digit number were attached, before the signs only showed European street numbers. The numbering of connection points is analogous to the kilometering, as in Austria and has been used on notice boards since 2009.

The planned motorway network is approx. 700 km. Currently, around 200 km are still under construction or in planning. The future motorway network consists of four connections. The most important and longest motorway connection is the D1 . Its total length will be 510 km. The D3 motorway branches off from this main route with a length of approx. 66 km and leads to the Polish border. The shortest motorway is the D4 , which is a ring road around the capital Bratislava . The 80 km long D2 motorway forms part of the connection between the three major cities of Prague , Bratislava and Budapest .

Current highways

No.	Europa road	From	Via	To	Total length (km)	in operation (km)	under construction (km)	map
		Bratislava	Trnava - Trenčín - Žilina - Prešov - Košice	Záhor	510.49	378.69	47.58
		Brodské	Malacky - Bratislava	Čunovo	80.50	80.50	-
		Hričovské Podhradie	Žilina - Čadca	Scalité	65.58	33.91	5.67
		Jarovce	Bratislava Ring	Devínska Nová Ves	47.90	9.50	22.80
Overall length:					704.46	502.60	76.05

Network development

year	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
km	0	46	119	176	195	198	287	323	415	464

Expressways ( Rýchlostné cesty )

Expressway R1 west of Nitra

One-way part of the R2 expressway near Ožďany

In the Slovak Road Traffic Act, all the rules mentioned for motorways also apply to expressways, but in terms of construction, expressways have somewhat loose criteria (smaller curve radius, narrow hard shoulder, narrower lanes, etc.). Furthermore, they are not necessarily directionally separated, but with exceptions should still be free of intersections. An expressway is announced with the same sign as the motorway, previously the blue Autostraße symbol was used (see picture on the left), which since April 1, 2020 has been changed to a different representation (square instead of rectangular) Motorways and expressways).

Since 2009, the expressways have been signposted in red signs with white street numbers, which consist of a preceding "R" and a single-digit number. Before, only either the European street number or, in some places, the number of first-order streets could be seen on the signs.

The current expressway network is made up of eight connections, with three expressways only being planned. The longest planned expressway will be the R2 with a length of 337 kilometers. The shortest will be the R5 expressway with only 2 km. The planned expressway network has a length of 1,200 kilometers, although R2, R3 and R4 will also run on common routes with other expressways or motorways; such guides are not included in the table below. There are currently 307 km (excluding shared routes) in operation, and a further 24 km under construction.

Current expressways

No.	Europa road	From	Via	To	Total length (km)	in operation (km)	under construction (km)	map
		Trnava	Nitra - Zvolen - Banská Bystrica	Ružomberok	270.94	178.71	0
		Trenčín	Prievidza - Zvolen - Lučenec	Košice	337.28	59.61	13.50
		Trstená	Martin - Žiar nad Hronom	Ahy	184.67	16.82	0
		Vyšný Komárnik	Svidník - Prešov - Košice	Milhosť	99.40	18.75	4.30
		Svrčinovec		Svrčinovec	1.71	0	0
		Lysá pod Makytou	Puchov	Beluša	30.55	7.55	0
		Bratislava	Dunajská Streda - Nové Zámky - Veľký Krtíš	Lučenec	219.81	25.8	6.3
		Nitra	Topoľčany	Hradište	54.89	0	0
Overall length:					1199.25	307.24	24.12

Previous projects

(incomplete)

number	course	status
D1	CZ / SK border near Drietoma - Trenčín	Planning definitely discarded in 1999
D18	Žilina - Čadca - SK / PL border at Skalité	Planning replaced in 1999 by the D3 with a different route at Žilina
D61	AT / SK border near Jarovce - Bratislava - Trnava - Trenčín	Dissolved in 1999; Today in operation as D1 in the Bratislava - Trenčín section and D4 in the AT / SK border section - Jarovce
D65	Trnava - Nitra - Zvolen - Banská Bystrica	In 1987 and again in 1998 it was added to the planned motorway network, downgraded to R1 in 1999

Motorway triangles and crosses

Surname	Street 1	Street 2	Art
Bánovce nad Bebravou	R2	R8	Autobahn triangle
Beluša	D1	R6	Autobahn triangle
Bratislava - Jarovce	D2	D4	Motorway junction
Bratislava-yuh	D4	R7	Motorway junction
Bratislava- Petržalka	D2	D1	Autobahn triangle
Bratislava-Prievoz	D1	R7	Autobahn triangle
Budča	R1	R3	Autobahn triangle
Chocholná	D1	R2	Autobahn triangle
Dolný Hričov	D1	D3	Autobahn triangle
Handlová	R2	R3	Autobahn triangle
Ivanka pri Dunaji	D1	D4	Motorway junction
Košice- yeah	R2	R4	Autobahn triangle
Lučenec	R2	R7	Autobahn triangle
Martin	D1	R3	Autobahn triangle
Most pri Bratislava	D4	R1 new	Autobahn triangle
Nitra- západ	R1	R1A / R8	Autobahn triangle Autobahn junction in planning
Prešov -západ	D1	R4	Autobahn triangle
Rozhanovce	D1	R2	Autobahn triangle
Ružomberok	D1	R1	Autobahn triangle
Ružomberok-západ	D1	R3	Autobahn triangle
Sereď	R1	R1 new	Autobahn triangle
Stupava	D2	D4	Motorway junction
Svrčinovec	D3	R5	Autobahn triangle
Trnava	D1	R1	Motorway junction
Žiar nad Hronom	R1	R2	Autobahn triangle
Zvolen	R1	R2	Autobahn triangle

under construction	in planning

Motorway maintenance depots

In Slovak parlance, motorway maintenance offices are called as follows: Stredisko správy a údržby diaľnic (SSÚD) for motorways and Stredisko správy a údržby rýchlostných ciest (SSÚR) for expressways, in German literally “center of motorway / expressway management and maintenance”.

The following motorway maintenance depots exist (as of January 1, 2017):

• SSÚD Malacky
• SSÚD Bratislava
• SSÚD Trnava
• SSÚD Trenčín
• SSÚD Považská Bystrica
• SSÚD Martin
• SSÚD Liptovský Mikuláš
• SSÚD Mengusovce
• SSÚD Beharovce
• SSÚD Prešov
• SSÚR Galanta
• SSÚR Selenec
• SSÚR Nová Baňa
• SSÚR Zvolen
• SSÚR Košice
• SSÚR Čadca

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vývoj dálniční sítě na území našeho státu od r. 1935 do r. 2007. , dalnice.com (Czech), accessed January 23, 2017
2. ↑ Spoplatnenie diaľnic ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NDS as (Slovak), accessed January 1, 2016 
3. ↑ ÖAMTC country information Slovakia , section Good to know . Retrieved November 19, 2017.
4. ↑ The Slovak Road Traffic Act (Slovak) ( Memento of April 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) and (Slovak) (PDF; 115 kB)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} 2019 business plan. Národná diaľničná spoločnosť, as, November 6, 2018, p. 42 , archived from the original ; accessed on April 28, 2020 (Slovak). 
6. ↑ Prehľad údajov o sieti cestných komunikácií SR, vlastník / správca , cdb.sk, accessed on December 2, 2017

Web links

Commons : Highways in Slovakia  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Expressways in Slovakia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Motorways - Exit Lists
• Dalnice-silnice.cz (Czech)
• Official website of the Slovak Motorway Company (Slovak)
• Historical overview of the motorways / expressways in operation, construction and planning (maps) (Slovak)