Official: Budapest Chain Bridge to stay car-free
Participants in “Budapest’s first residents’ meeting”, an online municipal survey, have expressed their preference for maintaining the current traffic rules on the city’s landmark Chain Bridge, allowing buses and taxis, as well as pedestrians and cyclists but no private cars, Gergely Karácsony, the city’s mayor, said on Tuesday.
Almost 80 percent of those answering the Town Hall’s questions agree that the bridge should stay one with “reduced traffic” and cars should not be allowed to return once the bridge’s renovation, now under way, is completed.
Karácsony said the city would have further talks with traffic organisations, but added that “Budapesters have made a clear decision, shared with city leaders: we don’t want to allow cars back onto the bridge,” he said.
Another survey: Budapest residents expect Karácsony to cooperate with government
Fully 95 percent of Budapest residents want the mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, to cooperate with the government, according to a Center for Fundamental Rights survey, while 92 percent expect him concentrate on local rather than national issues.
In less than a year’s time, municipal elections will be held in Hungary, and Budapest voters will also decide whether Karácsony, who has held office since 2019, will remain in his post, the think-tank noted in connection with its survey of 1,000 (0.05 percent of the capital’s population) Budapest adult residents published on Tuesday.
The think-tank commented that Karácsony’s term could not be qualified as “a success story”, noting that the mayor had nurtured ambitions to become prime minister in 2022, and had relied on deputy mayors and advisers appointed by Ferenc Gyurcsány to manage the city.
Budapest, it added, had been a battlefield ever since, and used by the opposition as a base of “resistance”.
I don’t know about the lanchid. Yes, it’s a nice idea but it will reduce vehicular traffic, not eliminate it so it’s a very partial measure. I’m also suspicious of the motives: Is it to really help improve people’s lives or is it to further Agenda 2030, 15-Minute Cities, Build Back Better, and other globalist-socialist wet dreams? Something tells me it’s the latter. As for Mayo Greg, I for one will endeavor to make sure he’s sent packing at the next election. He’s a rank opportunist who’s working for outside forces and thrives on high-profile conflict and “woke” causes rather than prudent and effective city management.