D3 motorway (Czech Republic)

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D3 Motorway
Dálnice D3
Route information
Part of
Length	70 km (43 mi) Planned: 172 km (107 mi)
Major junctions
From	D0 in Prague
To	S10 border with Austria near Dolní Dvořiště
Location
Country	Czech Republic
Regions	Central Bohemian, South Bohemian
Major cities	Tábor, České Budějovice
Highway system
Highways in the Czech Republic

The D3 motorway (Czech: Dálnice D3) is a highway in the Czech Republic. Currently only the middle segment of the route is in operation; when complete, it will run from Prague via Tábor and České Budějovice to the Czech-Austrian border at Dolní Dvořiště. It is part of the European route E55.

The D3 motorway in the South Bohemian Region towards the Austrian border should be completed by 2026.^[1] Completion of D3 in the Central Bohemian Region is planned by 2028, however its designed course through the Lower Sázava landscape is still objected and opposed by environmental and citizens associations.

Once completed, the 172-kilometre-long (107 mi) highway will connect the Czech capital Prague with the Austrian Mühlviertel Expressway (S10) to Linz. As of December 2019 only 69.6 km (43.2 mi) of the highway are in operation, a section from Mezno to Úsilné (near to České Budějovice), while a further 43.7 km (27.2 mi) from Úsilné to Czechia-Austria border are currently under construction. The most controversial and disputed section is the planned segment in the Central Bohemian Region.

A 24.0-kilometre-long (14.9 mi) section from Dolní Třebonín to the border with Austria on the other side of the future S10 expressway was initially planned to be built as an expressway (Czech: rychlostní silnice) as well, however on 1 January 2016, the category of expressways (R) was abolished in Czechia, so it is counted as part of the D3 motorway.

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  D3 motorway near Planá nad Lužnicí.
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  D3 motorway near České Budějovice.

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