This year 47 km of new motorways and category I roads will open, works will start on another 178 km6/1/2019|Press releasesIn 2019 a total of 22.4 km of new motorway sections on the D2 between Přerov and Lipník and on the D3 between Bošilec and Ševětín will open for drivers. The almost 25 km of category I roads to be completed this year include the bypass of Slaný, Lechovice and Znojmo. Work on another 178 kilometres of motorways and category I roads will start soon. "You will find most construction sites on the Brno D1 motorway, the South Bohemian D3, the Karlovy Vary D6, the Olomouc D35, the Chomutov D7, the Hradec Králové D11 and the entire D48 including the bypass of Frýdek-Místek and connection to D56 and the bypass of Otrokovice on the D55. This means that 187 km of motorways and category I roads are under construction at the moment," says the transport minister Dan Ťok. A total of 128 km of new motorways are under construction, of which 21 is the modernisation of the D1. Also, 59 km are upgrades on category I roads. In 2018 a total of 45 km of roads opened – of this 26 km of motorways were re-built between Prague and Brno, 4 km were built on the D7 and 15 km on category I roads. "I cannot open dozens of new motorway kilometres on the green field when nobody started any works before 2014, because preparation works were completely stopped in 2010. Today, new motorways and bypasses are built so quickly that construction companies cannot offer any further capacity," the minister adds. The standard construction period is between two and three years and four years for more challenging projects. You can see the map of current motorway and category I road construction projects at www.mdcr.cz/mapa. Motorway and category I road construction in numbers In 2019 a total of 178 of roads are ready for construction 50 km of this is the D1 modernisation (i.e. construction of a new motorway in the same route) 80 km of this are new motorways 48 m of this are new roads In 2019 a total of 47 km of roads will open to drivers 0 of this is the D1 modernisation 22.4 km of this are new motorways 25 km of this are new roads In 2018 work on 90 km of motorways and roads started 21 of this is the D1 modernisation 53 km of this are new motorways 16 km of this are new roads In 2018 a total of 45 km of roads were opened 26 of this is the D1 modernisation 4 km of this are new motorways 15 km of this are new roads Currently 187 km of new motorways and category I roads are under construction 128 km of this are motorways sections 21 km of this is the D1 modernisation 59 km of this are new category I roads