Traffic proposal to eliminate fatal accidents in Budapest, says Mayor Karácsony

A recent proposal to introduce stricter traffic control in Budapest has been designed to “reduce the number of fatal accidents to nil in the long run”, Mayor Gergely Karácsony said in a Facebook entry on Wednesday.

Reacting to critical remarks concerning the proposal, Karácsony said that

speed limits would not be lowered everywhere in the city, noting that a large part of Budapest is in “zones of reduced traffic” already.

He added that the aim was to further increase those zones.

The city needs liveable spaces rather than narrow streets in which “pedestrians are trying to bypass cars with drivers irritated by slow traffic”, Karácsony said.

He noted his pledge to make the city greener and cleaner,

and said it was necessary to develop public transport, as well as facilities both for cyclists and pedestrians.

As we wrote today, expected a drastic changes in the traffic of Budapest, read all details HERE.

Source: MTI