Restrictions will balk traffic in Budapest downtown, airport shuttle concerned
Thanks to European Mobility Week, traffic will become very difficult on the streets of downtown Budapest this weekend. Let us show you the details.
Traffic changes in Budapest, do not commute following habits
According to index.hu, there will be multiple traffic restrictions concerning downtown streets of the Hungarian capital this weekend. As a result, driving and using public transport will be more difficult since the route of several trams, buses and trolleybuses change. Furthermore, even Budapest’s magnificent Szabadság (Freedom) Bridge will be closed to traffic. HERE you may read about the history of the bridge.
The Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) said on Thursday that they would close the Szabadság Bridge and the Vámház Promenade to the Lónyay Street during the weekend, as there will be a car-free weekend due to the European Mobility Week. BKK added that the Pest lower embankment between the Margaret Bridge and the Irányi Street exit would be opened for pedestrians and will serve as an additional venue for the event.
On Saturday and Sunday, trams nr 47, 48 and 49 will not commute because of the restrictions. But trams nr 61 and 56A will carry passengers on an extended route. The former will commute between Hűvösvölgy and Városház tér stations while the latter between Hűvösvölgy and Kelenföld train station.
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Szabadság Bridge to be closed for traffic – use the metro!
Trolley bus nr 83, bus nr 15 and night buses 934 and 979 will serve passengers on a modified route towards the downtown. Instead of Közraktár Street, they will use Lónyay Street to reach Kálvin Square. Moreover, they will not touch Fővám Square. Bus nr 15 towards the Boráros Square will transport people on the József Attila Street-Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Street-Károly Promenade-Múzeum Promenade-Kálvin Square route. It will not touch the Szent István Square and the Fővám Square stations.
Meanwhile, trolley bus nr 72, buses nr 9, 15 and the airport shuttle 100E will not stop at the tram station on Astoria. Instead, they will use the night bus 914 station there. According to the BKK, there will be a vehicle expo on Saturday and Sunday between 10 AM and 6 PM on Vámház Promenade.Â
During the temporary closure of the Szabadság Bridge, BKK recommends passengers use metro line nr 4 or buses nr 7, 133E or metro line 3 and buses 9 or 15 or trolley bus nr 72.
Mayor launches European Mobility Week programme in capital
The message of European Mobility Week is that Budapest is not just made up of motorists, cyclists and public transport passengers, but also residents who want to get around, Gergely Karácsony, the city’s mayor, said on Friday, opening the environmental campaign in the capital. The Budapest city council’s job is to offer Budapest residents sustainable means of transport, Karácsony told a press conference in City Hall Park.
The city has become less liveable in recent years, with more and more people moving outside its borders and driving in to work, putting a burden on the environment, he said. “This negative spiral is what we’d like to reverse,” he said, adding that the city council’s aim was to add more pedestrian crossings and protected bicycle lanes while keeping public squares for residents.
Karácsony noted that the mobility week had started out as a single car-free days, but the city administration today “thinks about this issue in a far more complex way”. Budapest’s leadership does not see the parts of the city as mere “transport vessels” between the workplace, school and the home, but rather as “the place where we live, and whose quality fundamentally impacts how we live”, he said. Meanwhile, the mayor said the claim that the city was seeing a sudden surge in congestion was false, citing international statistics as showing that there were fewer traffic jams in the capital.
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1 Comment
This globalist-socialist puppet is living in an alternate reality. What he had done in Ulloi ut, with a bicycle track utilized by a half a dozen users per hour compared to hundreds of motorized vehicles stuck in a gridlock, is nothing short of criminal. Who the hell votes for this clown!?!