Budapest’s leadership wants fewer cars, more grazing sheep in the city

According to landscape architect Sándor Bardóczi, the ultimate answer to maintaining urban greenery in Budapest would be sheep grazing in the middle of the city. On the other hand, he and the mayor would like to see fewer cars in the capital. 

Cars should be banned in Budapest

As ripost.hu writes, both Gergely Karácsony and Sándor Bardóczi have expressed their opinions about banning cars in Budapest. A serious debate is taking place in the capital about thinning out the car traffic on the lower quay of Pest. Bardóczi put it this way: “Fortunately, there has been a switch in the way residents are thinking about this issue. More and more people are realising that it is not necessary to drive, they switch to public transport, and the number of bikers and pedestrians is growing. The next step is for people to move closer to their workplaces, which will eventually positively affect the structure of the city. All the big cities in the west are crowding out cars. There is no other way for Budapest either. ”

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Grazing sheep in the city?

“In our nature conservation areas, where the goal is to maintain meadows to preserve biodiversity, we want to introduce grazing due to the complex task.” – the architect said to Qubit.

According to Bardóczi, there are three possible places for grazing sheep: 3rd district Mocsárosdűlő, the Tétényi Plateau in Újbuda and the meadows of Felsőrákos in the 10th district.