Traffic in Budapest to be changed immensely: watch out for these modifications

As we have reported before, strict speed limits are expected to be implemented in Budapest. The reason is the too many deaths that occur on the streets of the Hungarian capital. The Municipality of Budapest wants to halve the number of road fatalities in the city by 2030 and reduce them to zero by 2050.

Road safety strategy in Budapest

The capital has developed a road safety strategy. The main points of this strategy are the regulation of the maximum speed limit on the different roads of Budapest. On average, one person has died every week on the roads of the capital over the past decade. For this reason, the Municipality of Budapest wants to halve the number of road fatalities in Budapest by 2030 and reduce them to zero by 2050. 

The road safety strategy of the capital’s municipality shows that speeding is one of the main causes of accidents, Samu Balogh, the mayor’s chief of staff, told InfoRádió. He added that if a pedestrian collision occurs at 30 kilometres per hour, nine out of ten victims survive. Meanwhile, if it happens at 60-70 kilometres per hour, the ratio is reversed: the survival rate is up to 20 percent.