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FOLLOWING its established custom, the municipal administration of Budapest has again called for tenders for dust-proofing the macadamized roads in the city. According to Roads and Road Construction of July, the proposal was to treat 522,000 sq. kilometres of roads with oil while the remaining 320,000 sq. kilometres of road requiring dust-proofing treatment would have been treated with tar. The bids proved that the price of oiling would have been one third higher than last year, while contractors also insisted on various disadvantageous clauses and conditions. The municipality has therefore decided to apply dust-proofing treatment to a total of 550,000 sq. kilometres of road surface only, using tar throughout. The Ministry of Commerce has issued a series of important commissions for the construction or reconstruction of roads and for two new bridges spanning the Danube and the Tisza respectively. The total commissions amount to well over seven million pengoes.
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Roadwork and Bridges in Hungary. Nature 146, 195 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146195c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146195c0