Activities within the week
Budapest organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2023, taking into account the annual theme.
All week
- Outdoor photo exhibition at a central location next to City Hall (Városháza park). Theme: How iconic squares of Budapest changed from people-friendly to car-centric and people-friendly again
Opening ceremony: September 15
- Sustainable mobility lessons in primary schools
- High school students visit the head quarters of BKK - Centre for Budapest Transport
16 September
Car Free Weekend programmes:
- Street openings for pedestrians and cycling: Vámház körút, Fővám tér, Szabadság híd (Liberty bridge), Danube embankment (Pest side), Gárdonyi tér
- Electric bicycle test track
- Sustaianble transport, traffic calming and accessibility-themed walking tours
- Exhibition of trams, trolleybuses and environmentally-friendly buses, traffic control car
- Programmes for kids: playhouse in a bus, traffic playground, transport-themed art programme
- Awareness-raising activities of the municipality's environmental, energy efficiency, air-pollution reduction and sustainable transport projects
- Micromobility service providers with test tracks
- NGO street: exhibition and activities by 17 environmental and transport/public space-related organisations
- Cycling lesson
- Activities and exhibitions by public transit providers, active tourism organisations
- Cycling programmes on Gárdonyi tér
17 September
Car Free Weekend programmes:
- Street openings for pedestrians and cycling: Vámház körút, Fővám tér, Szabadság híd (Liberty bridge), Danube embankment (Pest side), Gárdonyi tér
- Round-table discussions
- Sustaianble transport, traffic calming and accessibility-themed walking tours
- Exhibition of trams, trolleybuses and environmentally-friendly buses, traffic control car
- Programmes for kids: playhouse in a bus, traffic playground, transport-themed art programme
- Awareness-raising activities of the municipality's environmental, energy efficiency, air-pollution reduction and sustainable transport projects
- Micromobility service providers with test tracks
- Electric bicycle test track
- NGO street: exhibition and activities by 17 environmental and transport/public space-related organisations
- Cycling lesson
- Activities and exhibitions by public transit providers, active tourism organisations
19 September
- Bike to work breakfast next to City Hall (Erzsébet square)
- BKK - Centre for Budapest Transport Balázs Mór Klub's Mobility Week special edition: Energy saving in transportation - lectures and panel discussion with guests and invited audience from administrative, scientific and professional sector
20 September
- Lecture by Vienna's walking commissioner and the chief of cabinet of the Mayor's Office, followed by a round table discussion about cycling and walking policies, developments (open for public, free entry, press invited)
21 September
- Workshop with Vienna's walking commissioner, BKK - Centre for Budapest Transport's Mobility development director, vice mayor of Budapest's 8th district about cycling and walking policies, developments (on invitation for professionals, officials and policy makers)
22 September
- Opening celebration of MOL Bubi bike share scheme's 200th station
- Car free Danube embankment on Pest side
- Opening of new busking pitch in a public transport station
- Photo exhibition finissage
Permanent measures
Budapest implements one or more new permanent measure(s), which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport.
New or improved bicycle facilities
Improvement of bicycle network (creation of new lanes, extension, renovation, signposting etc)
9 kilometres of 3 new signposted cycling routes connecting outskirts and suburban areas to city centre, cycling safety improvement of an intersection on the Eurovelo 6 route. Launch of the 200th MOL B
Pedestrianisation
Improvement of infrastructure (new foot bridges, pavements, road crossings, zebra crossings etc)
New pedestrian crossing in an intersection with 2 kindergartens and a daycare
Accessibilities
Create the tactile pavements
Lowering of pavements
Enlargement of pavements
planned
Removal of architectonic barriers
planned
Mobility management
Elaboration of educational materials
Outdoor photo exhibition at a central location next to City Hall (Városháza park). Theme: How iconic squares of Budapest changed from people-friendly to car-centric and people-friendly again
Car-free day
Budapest carries out a Car-Free Day 2023 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.
Zone opened to residents on Car-Free Day:
Street openings for pedestrians and cycling on 16th and 17th September:
- Danube embankment (Pest side)
- Fővám tér
- Gárdonyi tér
- Szabadság híd (Liberty bridge)
- Vámház körút
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