Buza Péter: Bridges of the Danube - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

The construction of the Petőft-originally Miklós Horthy-Bridge

appointed later to draw up a plan when conditions were modified due to economic and aesthetic considerations.

The senior engineer of the ministry’s bridge department, Pál Algyay-Hubert prepared the final plans of the Miklós Horthy Bridge, known today as Petőfi Bridge. It is another fine piece of work with its remarkably slender and modest appearance which does not intrude upon the view of the city along the Danube. It is a three-span, upperdeck lattice beam bridge. Two-thirds of the funds needBridges and development. Once there was no man’s land here

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