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Rákóczi Bridge

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Opened
  
1995

Width
  
31 m

Body of water
  
Danube

Total length
  
495 m

Phone
  
+36 31 782 8011

Rákóczi Bridge

Address
  
Budapest, Rákóczi híd, 1117 Hungary

Similar
  
Petőfi Bridge, Margaret Bridge, Árpád Bridge, Liberty Bridge, Elisabeth Bridge

Budapest r k czi bridge and national theatre


Rákóczi Bridge (Hungarian: Rákóczi híd, formerly known as Lágymányosi híd / Lágymányosi Bridge) is a bridge in Budapest, Hungary, connecting the settlements of Buda and Pest across the Danube. The construction of the steel girder bridge was started in 1992 to the plans of Tibor Sigrai.

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It is named after the Rákóczi family, but is still more usually referred to as Lágymányosi híd. This bridge is the southernmost, and the second newest, public bridge in the capital; it was inaugurated in 1995.

Its Pest end is a station of Csepel HÉV, and the venue of the new Hungarian National Theatre (2002) and the Palace of Arts (2005).

Budapest bus 103 ride crossing r k czi bridge


Tramline

The bridge has been designed to the transfer of trams. The place left to the tram track in the middle of the bridge, but the tracks were not laid off. The Reconstruction of the tram 1 and the bridge passage line section was built together. The bridge is planned to deliver by Jan. 2015, but the opening was delayed, because the National Transport Authority. They required one more load testThey with 1000t and after that they opened the extended tram section.

References

Rákóczi Bridge Wikipedia