Government cancels plan for four-lane R55 motorway to Austria

The government has cancelled plans to complete a motorway connection with Austria via the South Moravian town of Břeclav. In place of the planned R55, four-lane motorway the Ministry of Transport now envisions a two-lane main road bypass around Břeclav that would cost 1.6 billion crowns. The region of South Moravia welcomed the cancellation of the project, which was first planned in 2008, and hopes it will contribute to the completion of the R52 motorway to Vienna via Mikulov, which has been planned for decades.