Budapest, Nyugati Square’s monumental overpass will be demolished

Demolishing the overpass on Nyugati Square (next to Nyugati Railway Station) has been on the capital’s schedule for a long time. The council overseeing all the improvements in Budapest finally made a decision which is to demolish the old overpass as soon as possible as it is “repulsive and ruins the view”.

According to pestbuda.hu, the council made its final decision on May 14, and the plans about demolishing were announced on Kossuth Radio by the mayor of Budapest, István Tarlós. The iconic overpass in the middle of the city was completed on November 10, 1981, but the idea was actually born in the 1960s and 1970s when the leadership of the capital planned to flood the transportation-developed Budapest with these overpasses to make getting to one point of the city from another quicker and easier. The same idea was actualised in front of the Keleti Railway Station as well.

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The idea of building an overpass on Nyugati Square was based on the fact that the north-south underground line (Metro Line 3) was completed in the 1970s. Because of the newly built underground the capital dissolved the tram line next to Nyugati Railway Station and Nyugati Square and decided to make traveling by car easier in that part of the city with an overpass without any traffic lamps to slow down the traffic.