The National Infrastructure Development Company (NIF) and state-owned road maintenance company Magyar Közút built or upgraded 85km of the total at a cost of HUF 8.5 billion, Mosóczi said. The rest of the additions were local council projects, he added.

Among the new bike paths was the final stretch of a bikeway that circles all the way around Lake Tisza.

The state now maintains more than 1,000 km of bike paths connecting settlements.