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In Budapest the traffic-culture / morality is very bad, so it’s worth not cycling between the cars, but on the cycle-roads.

Hungary by Bike

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 20:12:19

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General informations / instructions:
In the last few years the popularity of cycling has increased in Hungary, so more and more people are choosing biking to spend their spare time. With the growing popularity of cycling the local governments can only limitedly satisfy the claims of bike road-building. Although the length of cycle-roads increase a little from year to year. These roads are sometimes real roads, not the edge of tracks or parts of pavements, but in other cases they are separated with a line from the tracks or pavements.

By bike on trains: Cyclists can keep their bikes ( max 2 to each platform) on the 1st and last platform (the place on the wagon, where we step on) during the trip. They have to buy a ticket for the bicycle. On some lines the trains have a cycle-wagon, where there is a place for about 20-40 bicycles. It can be seen on the timeteble / schedule. (It has a logo on the wagon and also on the schedule)

In Budapest the traffic-culture / morality is very bad, so it’s worth not cycling between the cars, but on the cycle-roads. It’s dangerous between or beside the cars. In the capital bikes can only be taken on the green-white coloured local trains and on the rack railway, on the doors where you can see the bicycle logo. This is painted on the platform/ pavement too. In Budapest the best places for cycling is along the Danube (on the Buda side), the Margaret-island (Margit-sziget), the Szilágyi Erzsébet avenue and some parks, like Népliget, and Városmajor. From the Citadella you can get a great view to the capital (photo).At the west end of Budapest (towards Budakeszi), from Szépjuhászné to János-mountain on weekends cyclists can go pedalling without any fear from the cars, because on weekends this road is closed from traffic.

The entire route 70 and the route 11 (on workdays it is busy between Tát and Komárom, on weekends it’s busy between Szentendre and Visegrád) ...