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Super speedcams on the road

From 8 am on Tuesday, April 5, the new, fixed speedcams, officially known as the Véda intelligent road cameras, installed by the police, have been put into operation, writes hirado.hu.

The new cameras, apart from speed measuring, are responsible for traffic counting and recognising, and documenting several kinds of violations, for instance, crossing the barrage line or inappropriately driving in the bus lane. The system includes 160 mobile speedometers and 365 fixed traffic checking points (KKEP) all over the country.

It is important to note that in Budapest six new speedcams were installed. Two of them watch the traffic of motorway M3, two are at M5 and two at the shared area of M1 and M7. See the map of vs.hu below, based on the list published by the Hungarian National Police Headquarters. It shows where these fixed super speedcams are located.

According to hirado.hu, Hungary’s transport policy is in harmony with the goals set out by the EU, as they recommended that the number of deaths, caused by traffic accidents, should be decreased by 2020 to 50% compared to 2010, and it should be around zero by 2050. The new cameras play a significant role in meeting this target.

Photo: MTI

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National debtor map

Index.hu made a map of people who owe more than 10 million HUF tax according to the National Tax Office (NAV) and the debt has been existing at least for 180 days. Roughly one-sixth of the 3642 people are Budapest residents and there are a couple dozens from every bigger town. The tax office does not publish the exact amount, but they tell the debtors’ name and address. The map focuses on individuals.

You can see the map here in large resolution.

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America turned its attention to the brutal Debrecen transport network

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Gizmodo collected a few cities’ transport map which is very hard to understand or is entirely incomprehensible. The list includes cities where you can get lost very quickly and very easily, 444.hu wrote.

In addition to the bus network of London, Bronsville (Texas), Josephine (Oregon) and Meiningen (Germany), the Debrecen transit map became also highly ranked on the list.

They wrote the following: “In short, it’s an absolute disaster.”

According to the map Debrecen seems to be a megalopolis. Still, it has only one and a half tram lines, 444.hu reported.

Map: http://gizmodo.com

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3D map of the underground world of Budapest – VIDEOS

After several years of research, the 3D interactive map of the underground world of Budapest has been done. Katalin Zsoldi, doctoral student at ELTE Cartography and Geoinformatics Department published, according to Falanszter blog, the 1:10 000 scale map, her huge accomplishment, “about the real situation of natural and man-made facilities in Budapest, their relationship and about the subsurface depth”, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu wrote.

Falanszter blog provided the axonometric blueprints of the wine cellars of Attila Street and the former government shelter under the Buda Castle Quarter, built by governor Miklos Horthy.

A short video on the surface:

The Kobanya cellar system is more than 30km-long:

The world under Deak Square:

The nuclear bunker of Matyas Rakosi (former Communist leader) under Szabadsag Square:

Gellert Hill and everything below:

Pope John Paul II Square:

based on the article of szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu

Photo: II. Janos Pal papa ter es Keleti palyaudvar YouTube video

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Here is the great terror map: where is the most dangerous to live?

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According to hvg.hu, British daily Telegraph made a map of the world’s terror threat. In the dark red areas, terror threat is high, in the red-marked countries, it is average, and it is low in the orange areas. There is high risk in more than 30 countries, the popular holiday destinations like Spain and Turkey are in the same category as Libya, Pakistan and Somalia.

based on the article of hvg.hu
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Map: What Hungary, the UK, Portugal and the Baltics have in common?

An interesting map has been created about the most common European surnames made from occupation names. The map shows at a glance that the most popular occupation surname is Smith, whether it is in Italy, in Russia, in Slovakia or in Hungary. In the south east, Priest is the cool last name and there are some odds like the Czech Republic or Austria, where farmers and miners inspired the dozen names, hvg.hu said.

The map was published by brilliantmaps.com. As they wrote, the totals are not done on a scientific basis, the data was collected from the Internet.

based on the article of hvg.hu
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Map shows the age of the Hungarian real estates

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According to index.hu, website Otthonterkep made a map which shows a lot of useful information about Hungarian real estates.

The map shows the average age of the real estates, the proportion of real estates were built after 1990 and the proportion of real estates were built after 1946. It is by counties, micro-regions and Budapest. It’s no surprise the oldest residential real estates are in the inside districts of Budapest. Belvaros-Lipotvaros holds the record: 85 years. Hegyvidek (12th district) is also far above the average: 58.7 years. The average age in Tolna County is as much as in Budapest: 51.5 years.

The analysis of Otthonterkep writes several interesting data. One of them is the aging of the buildings. The Hungarian housing stock is ageing; the average home was built nearly 50 years ago. The number of new building permits issued in recent years was historically low. The downward trend in new housing construction seemed to be stopped in 2014, and the number of new licenses increased by an additional 44% in 2015 compared to the same period of 2014, but that’s no reason for optimism due to the low base.

If we look at the nationwide conditions, the most real estates were built before 1946 and between 1970 and 1980, according to the 2011 census. Real estates, which are more than 65 years old, which were built until the end of the Second World War – typically prior to World War II – makes up 20% of the housing stock. The housing boom of the 1970s and 1980 is the result of the so-called goulash communism, home- and housing estate constructions started this time, which, incidentally, also contributed to the country’s indebtedness, index.hu said.

In the years after the regime change, the number of newly-built properties drastically declined, only the housing subsidy system of the 2000s and the spread of foreign currency lending brought turn with their known negative consequences. Following the crisis, the number of new construction continued to contract.

Big differences in the country

The oldest housing stock is in Tolna, Bekes and Nograd Counties. Bacsalmas micro-region, Bacs-Kiskun County has the oldest housing stock. Nearly half of the residential properties were built before WW2 and only 4.5% of them were built after 1990. Baranya County gave 3 micro-regions to the 10 micro-regions with the oldest housing stocks. Bekes, Csongrad, Tolna, Vas, Somogy and Veszprem Counties gave one each.

Accoding to index.hu, the youngest housing stock is in Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hajdu-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg Counties, and above all, in the agglomeration of Budapest. 6 of the 10 micro-regions with the youngest housing stock are in Pest County, in the Budapest agglomeration. As a consequence of the suburbanization process started in the early 2000s, construction industry has started and the newly-built properties were mushrooming.

The Veresegyhaz micro-region has the youngest housing stock, where nearly half of the real estates were built after 1990, but the proportion is 35-40% in the Erd micro-region as well. Due to the high proportion of the newly-built real estates, Siofok and Heviz micro-regions around Lake Balaton are also in the top ten. But the micro-regions from the eastern part of Hungary are also on the list: the Hajduszoboszlo and the Nyiregyhaza micro-regions, index.hu said.

Budapest is the thousand year-old city

Of course, it’s not the age of the housing stock, which is 52 years. Budapest is a true two-faced city, there are hundreds of houses older than 100 years in the center, of which the oldest is the Voros Sun Haz (Red Hedgehog House) which is built around 1260. The traces of the 1970-1980s can be discovered in the housing estates, while new condominiums are being built in some parts of the city.

Accordingly, the oldest housing stock can be found in the 1st, 5th, 6th and the 7th districts, the average age decreases towards the outer districts. The most new houses are built in the 9th, 13th and the 14th disctricts; here is the highest proportion of real estates was built after 1990.

Is there a relationship between the house price?

Of course, the price per square meter of the newly-built property is higher than a significantly older one, this proves that there is a strong correlation between the average price data of Otthonterkep and the proportion of the real estates were built after 1990. A diagram shows that the higher the proportion of real estates were built after 1990 in a micro-region, the higher the average price per square meter of the properties in the micro-region.

based on the article of index.hu
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Here is the Great Hungarian Prostitute Map

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It’s quite gap-toothed, but real, community and whoever makes, one takes it very seriously. People in Budapest are preferred prostitute map.

Hir24.hu discovered the Sluts Streetwalkers Prostitutes community Google Map, which contains the “contact information” of sex workers. The contact, of course, does not mean  email address or phone number, but locations and practical, lovely precise information.

“In the evening, from 8 pm. a young blonde girl” (Kálvária Square)

“From there to the  point 2, you can find about 10 girls. They begin to gather after 8 pm. and go back home around midnight” (Thököly Road).

“From 12 pm to evening, a girl stands there” (Kőérberki Road).

 

The favorite of the website is the following: “I know so that the ladies arrive in the evening. They gather around 5-6 pm. You can expect 15-16 girls. There are always a few girls, in the morning, at noon, in the evening, in sunshine, rain, wind, snow. So if someone goes there at any time, one will find someone” (Szabadkai Road)

Also you can find ladies in the 15th district:

 

Budapest is unfairly overrepresented; we find more capital tips than the total remaining in Hungary. In Miskolc, there are four locations with the same text: “Sometimes here stands someone too”.

based on the article of hir24.hu
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