M70 motorway (Hungary)

The M70 motorway (M70-es autópálya) is a motorway in Hungary, connecting the M7 motorway to the A5 motorway in Slovenia. The road is 21 km long and has a speed limit of 130 km/h. The last section was completed in 2006. After the opening of the last missing sections of the M7 on August 19, 2008, there is a direct motorway link from Budapest to Slovenia. The expressway originally consisted of two lanes between Letenye and Tornyiszentmiklós interchanges. As a four-lane, full profile motorway, it opened on December 13, 2019 (see the Hungarian article for references in Hungarian). It was built by the Colas Group.

Route description

 * The route is full length motorway. The maximum speed limit is 130km/h, with 2 active lanes and 1 emergency.svg (2x2 lane road with stop lane).

{| class="wikitable" !scope="col"|County !scope="col"|km !scope="col"|Type !scope="col"|Destination !scope="col"|Notes
 * rowspan=9; align=center|Coa Hungary County Zala (2010-).svg Zala
 * style="background:#dfd;" align=center | 0
 * style="background:#dfd;" align=center |AB-Kreuz-blau.svg
 * style="background:#dfd;"| – Budapest, Nagykanizsa
 * style="background:#dfd;"| – Budapest, Nagykanizsa

– Letenye → Zagreb (HR)
 * style="background:#dfd;"|The southern terminus of the Hungary road sign E-016.svg motorway, and E653 route.

Kilometrage starting point

trumpet interchange
 * align=center | 1
 * align=center |AB-Brücke.svg
 * Korongi híd
 * Length: 115.6 m
 * Length: 115.6 m

híd means Bridge
 * align=center | 2
 * align=center |AB-AS-blau.svg
 * 7 (Hu) Otszogletu zold tabla.svg Main road 7 – Letenye, Zagreb (HR) / Budapest
 * align=center | 11
 * align=center | AB-AS-blau.svg
 * Csörnyeföld, Murarátka / Muraszemenye
 * Connecting to M70 Autohof
 * align=center | 15
 * align=center |Hungary road sign E-046.svg
 * Csörnyeföldi pihenőhely
 * parking, WC, and water
 * align=center | 15
 * align=center |Hungary road sign E-046.svg
 * Csörnyeföldi pihenőhely
 * parking, WC, and water

pihenőhely means Rest area
 * align=center |
 * align=center |AB-Fluss.svg
 * Kerka híd
 * align=center | 18
 * align=center |AB-AS-blau.svg
 * Lenti, Tornyiszentmiklós
 * align=center | 20
 * align=center |Hungary road sign E-046.svg
 * Tornyiszentmiklósi pihenőhely
 * style="background:#dfd;" align=center| 21
 * style="background:#dfd;" align=center|EU-Icon.svg
 * style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós (H) – Pince (SLO) border crossing – Maribor towards to Ljubljana
 * style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós border crossing to Slovenia → A5 motorway.
 * Tornyiszentmiklósi pihenőhely
 * style="background:#dfd;" align=center| 21
 * style="background:#dfd;" align=center|EU-Icon.svg
 * style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós (H) – Pince (SLO) border crossing – Maribor towards to Ljubljana
 * style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós border crossing to Slovenia → A5 motorway.
 * style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós (H) – Pince (SLO) border crossing – Maribor towards to Ljubljana
 * style="background:#dfd;"|Tornyiszentmiklós border crossing to Slovenia → A5 motorway.

The northern terminus of the motorway, and E653 concurrency.

Maintenance
The operation and maintenance of the road by Hungarian Concession Infrastructure Development Plc. This activity is provided by this highway engineer.
 * near Eszteregnye (M7), kilometre trench 219

Payment
Since 2015, the M70 motorway is fully tolled road. Hungarian system has 2 main type in terms of salary:

1, time-based fee vignettes (E-matrica);
 * Cars, vans and motorbikes up to 3.5 tonnes only need to buy a single vignette which costs 6,400 Hungarian forint (Ft) for 10 days, 10,360 Ft for 1 month and 57,260 Ft for a year, from 1 January 2024.

2, county vignettes (vármegyei matrica); the highway can be used instead of the national sticker with the following county stickers:

Significant structures

 * Bridge
 * Korongi Bridge (Korongi híd; 115.6 m) over the M7 motorway