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The Leading Independent Car Rental Company In Hungary
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'FreeCycle Exhibition', Kiscelli Museum Budapest, Until 14 November |
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 "In the autumn of 2010, the Kiscell Museum of the Budapest History Museum will exhibit the cultural history of bicycling in Budapest. Every year there are more and more cyclists in Budapest, enjoying the traffic and environmental advantages of bicycling. Responding to the intolerable growth of car traffic in the past decades, more and more civil groups have been formed to lobby for the improvement of bicycling conditions, and a particular cycling subculture has also developed in Budapest.The timeliness and importance of the issue is indicated by the fact that the largest bicycling event by Critical Mass, mobilising the largest number of people ever, took place in Budapest in 2008. The leaders of Budapest could no longer ignore the needs of this particular social group, and eventually, though slowly, the infrastructural development of the cycling traffic of Budapest has begun.
The aim of our exhibition is to introduce the so-far less known aspects of this issue, from the second half of the 19th century to date, with drawings, photos, guide books, posters, pamphlets, regulatory decrees, and selections of newsreel, as well as antique and currently used bicycles. We believe that drawing up and introducing the history of this topic will greatly contribute to the understanding of actual problems, hence giving us an opportunity to engage in a civil dialogue about cycling traffic."
Source: Hungarian Tourism Office
12.11.2010
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