D2 motorway (Slovakia)
The D2 is a motorway in Slovakia. It connects the Czech border at Kúty with the Hungarian border at Čunovo, passing through Malacky, Bratislava and Jarovce.
It is part of the European routes E65 and E75 and of the Pan-European Corridor IV. The construction of the highway started in 1969 and concluded in 2007. It is the only complete highway in Slovakia.
History
The first plans on D2 motorway/freeway appeared in the 1960s, from the Czechoslovak government act in 1963 to build the 117 km long motorway from Brno to Bratislava, with 58.4 km in today's Slovakia. The construction started in April 1969, with the first section from Bratislava to Malacky, which was open in November 1973.In 1974, construction also started on the Czech side from Brno, with the two ends of the motorways joining on 8 November 1980, a day, when also the D1 motorway in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia was completed, joining the three most important cities in the country. A new planned segment from Bratislava to the Hungarian border was added in 1987. Construction continued with the building of the Lafranconi Bridge in Bratislava and the junction with D1 motorway junction and temporary end in Petržalka in the years 1985 - 1991 and after its opening, construction stopped for five years.
Construction resumed only in 1996, with the sections from the temporary end to Hungary and Austria, with all being opened in 1998 and with the 8.5 km segment from D4 junction to the Hungarian border being widened in 2002. Today, the motorway is complete, with the last 3 km in Bratislava being opened on 24 June 2007.
As of 2012, part of the D2 highway is still not officially finished as it was put into temporary use 12 years ago and the paperwork to legalize the section of the highway near Jarovce is unobtainable due to excessive noise levels.
Future developments
There are plans to widen the motorway to a six lane motorway with 3 lanes going one way and this is to be done by 2033.Toll status
The D2 is subject to a vignette requirement which is compulsory for all drivers. Exempt from the requirement are sections located in Bratislava. The exemption also applies to the section from Lamač to the D2xD4 intersection near Stupava, which was made toll-free in 2024. Due to a construction on a second class road connecting Slovakia with the Czech Republic, a section from the Czech border to the Kúty intersection was temporarily exempted from the vignette requirement in March 2025.Tunnel
The motorway is accompanied by a single tunnel, the Sitina tunnel, which was opened along with the last 3 km in Bratislava on June 24, 2007.| Tunnel | Length | Notes | Speed limit |
| Sitina | 1,440 1,415 | opened on June 24, 2007 |