Bike path to connect Vienna and Budapest
It is an ancient desire of the Hungarian biking community to connect the Hungarian and the Austrian capital with a bike path because many would like to discover the beauties between these two amazing cities of Central-Europe. Of course, the demand from tourists for such a route was also palpable in the last few years, and it seems now that Hungary can make a further step in the project.
According to index.hu, the Eurovelo 6 bike path is going to be built on the right-hand side of the Danube. The National Infrastructure Developing Private Company Limited (NIF) would like to create a new, 14 kilometres long section now of the bike road. The segment is between Komárom and Gönyű and
the plans include two bridges for the bikers, as well, in Ács and Nagyszentjános.
The National Infrastructure Developing Private Company is now searching for a contractor, which will build the bike path and the bridges – magyarepitok.hu reported. Before, the company announced a tender for building a 7.5 kilometres long segment between Dunaalmás and Neszmély. Still, the website did not say anything about whether that was successful, and they found the construction partner.
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The new segment between Komárom and Gönyű will use already existing dirt roads and will build new ones near the Danube.
The duration of the project will be 14 months after the NIF finds the contractor.
One of the bridges will be in Ács and will connect the two banks of the Concó stream. The 12 metres long pon will be of reinforced concrete. The other one will cross the Cuhai-Bakony river with a similar bridge.
Source: index.hu, magyarepitok.hu
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As more and more people travel by bicycles it is important to ensure that they are licensed, insured and must wear helmets to protect head injuries so that healthcare costs, brain injury related disabilities don’t end up being a burden on tax payers. In case of accidents, official license plates make it possible to collect costs for those whoes properties are damaged by careless riders. The fees can then be re-invested in further infrastructure to benefit everyone, but less burden on taxpayers, who may not even ride.
When FAT bikes, electric bikes and 3 wheelers (for shoppers & elderly) become really popular you want to have regulations in place prior to that. In Florida etc. those 3 wheelers with small rechargeable electric motors keep old people from being behind the wheel of cars which they no longer should really be driving due to their refusal to wear their hearing aides, glasses or not having fast reflexes for emergency crash avoidance. Your bike- share program should add those types of bikes into their system.