Drastic speed decrease will come in Budapest

A new era will start in the Hungarian capital concerning all drivers in weeks. The reason is that the municipal council will accept Budapest’s new traffic security strategy in their late-June session, and its execution is to start after the decision.

As we wrote HERE, in February, a fatal accident occurred in Budapest on Harminckettesek Square. A car crashed into a tram stop. A 23-year-old woman waiting at the stop died of her injuries at the scene. According to a police statement, a 41-year-old Italian man caused the accident. Bors, a Hungarian tabloid, reported that he tested positive for alcohol. Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest, said that something needed to be done to reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents in the city. He announced that he would start working with the police to ensure that accidents like the recent one would not happen again.

New strategy ready

Karácsony and Tamás Terdik, Budapest’s police chief, shared a document regarding the main directions of a new road safety strategy at the end of this February. You may find our article on the issue HERE. Basically, it aims to reduce road fatalities by half by 2030 and to zero by 2050. Therefore, they would like to reduce speed limits in many city areas. Furthermore, the number of residential areas would double in the city. That means there would be twice as many areas with a 30 km/h speed limit as before.