Video: Budapest Biking ‘Hugely Popular’

  • 18 Jul 2017 10:00 AM
Video: Budapest Biking ‘Hugely Popular’
By Áron Halász, vice - president of Hungarian Cyclists' Club: Cycling as a mode of transport has become a trend in the past 10 years in Budapest. It started as a sub-culture, but gained huge popularity thanks to the strong bike advocacy, positive campaigns, various stakeholders joining the cause and the recent infrastructural developments such as the bike-share system, new bike lanes and more than 160 one-way streets opened for two-way cycling.

Cycling is popular in Hungary, but big cities still face the problems caused by decades of car-centric urban development.

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