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The convening of the meeting of the Budapest Public Development Council begins in late May or the first fortnight of June, Balázs Fürjes, Secretary of State for Development of Budapest and the Capital Agglomeration, told our newspaper. Mayor Gergely Karácsony’s proposals are on the agenda. According to Fürjes, three issues should be quickly discussed with the capital.
One is to ensure that the capital’s large parks can be safely visited even during the epidemic period, so that a large crowd does not form in some places, jeopardizing compliance with epidemiological regulations. Therefore, the Budapest Development Center recommends that the City Council, using the experience of organizing the Sziget Festival, develop an action plan to support the safe and large weekend visit of Margaret Island and other large public parks in Budapest.
Fürjes suggests that the action plan also includes the rapid development of a mobile application that, as a registration and information interface, supports the reasonable coordination of the number of visitors and compliance with the rules of responsible visits, as well as the participation of volunteers to help responsible weekend parking lots. It is considered important to achieve a better population-friendly balance between restrictive-prohibitive measures, law enforcement and educational methods, useful support. Fürjes said that several startups promised to participate in the development of the app for free, and the Sziget team also indicated their interest in the preliminary interest.
According to Fürjes, 600,000 people live in panel floors in Budapest, and half of them don’t even have a balcony; It’s easy to see that the greatest self-discipline is needed here to maintain access restrictions. He quoted Béla Merkely, SOTE rector, who said that it has no detrimental effect – in fact, it is more beneficial if tight families walk together outdoors, and the closure of larger areas like Margaret Island tends to increase crowds in some places. Where there is no closure As we reported, green spaces in the capital opened last weekend, but a riot has yet to develop on Margaret Island on Saturday.
The Secretary of State would also like a dialogue on the population-friendly relationship of public transport, private car transport, cycling and walking, and the measures necessary to achieve this. As we have written, the mayor recently accepted the proposal, on the basis of which the development of a traffic safety and calm plan and a package of measures will begin in the capital. The plan, to be completed by the end of the year, includes, among other things, reducing speed limits, redesigning roads, making them safer and increasing the share of bicycle traffic.
Fürjes said he agrees with Christmas that a new balance in Budapest transport is needed in the proportion of public transport, individual car transport, cycling and walking. But he believes that dialogue and comprehensive impact assessments are essential. It is important, he said, that for many, no one should call car traffic and motorists an enemy, which is essential to go to work, work or organize family life. International forecasts after the epidemic A significant increase in car traffic (up to 50-70%) is expected even compared to the pre-epidemic period in the world’s cities.
To finance the transformations, Fürjes proposes the above-mentioned EU direct urban funds at Christmas, but he did not rule out the possibility of the state joining as co-financier. The idea of withdrawing the 3.2 billion forints previously promised by the government to István Tarlós for the purchase of a bus, said Fürjes: the capital will receive the money, but the government will spend around 1 billion to fight the epidemic. this year, and at least $ 1 billion in revenue will fall from the budget, so they want the promised amount to be delivered to the capital next year.
The Budapest Development Center is also initiating the development of a vehicle replacement program that will contribute to the radical reduction of air pollution in the capital by greening the fleet of public and residential vehicles in Budapest over a period of up to seven years. The epidemic situation has caused fundamental changes in traffic. For example, home deliveries have increased restaurant deliveries, most often with outdated high emission small engines and scooters. Multi-legged financing is also proposed for this, using EU, capital, state and self-sustaining resources.
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