How is historic transit integrated into the urban fabric of Budapest? | City Unboxed with George Liu
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- čas přidán 12. 12. 2022
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Did you know that Budapest (Hungary) is home to continental Europe's oldest underground metro line. Budapest has a very fascinating history. The city was originally two separate cities: Buda and Pest, divided by the Danube River. During World War II, all the bridges that connect the two portions of the cities were destroyed. And thereafter, they've built two metro lines and nine bridges that connect the two halves in the modern day. George Liu - Urban Mobility Researcher - was very curious to discover all this for himself. In this video, part of the City Unboxed series produced in collaboration with the Urban Cycling Institute, George gives us a tour of Budapest by walking, cycling and public transit to finally give the city a Human Mobility Score!
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Luckily Budapest is making really good progress in most areas. More and more bike lanes pop up in the city and they are planning to pedestrianise the shore of the Danube. Transit is being modernised, mobility stations are being expanded and new green spaces are being created
Thanks for sharing your experience ☺
I used to take that red and white cog train to and from school almost every day back in 1995. I'm glad to see that some things haven't changed.
Was a fun tour as always - beautiful architecture in this city!
As a former Budapest resident, I loved this video and agree with most but not all of your analysis. Transit has always been fantastic in Budapest and the city continues to invest in it (e.g. by opening a 4th metro line in 2014). You rightly give transit a 5/5. Cycling conditions have improved tremendously over the past 20 years, with bike paths, share rows, bike accommodation on public transport and, of course, the public bike system. The infrastructure makes too many compromises with car traffic, it's true, so a 2/5 may be fair. But I think you short changed Budapest on walkability. The Pest bank is awful, as you point out, but the Buda bank does have a decent bike/pedestrian promenade. Budapest's historic squares are a treasure, places for walking, resting, and people watching, and they're all over the downtown core. In addition, in recent decades, the city has pedestrianized, or drastically traffic-calmed, several streets on both sides of the Danube, linking up squares and creating big pedestrian corridors. Reassigning streets from cars to people is a huge political challenge, as you know. For these reasons, I'd give Bp a 3/5 on walking.
Thanks for sharing your scoring !! Really interesting!
You found the narrowest sidewalk at the Danube bank and you generalize it all over. FYI: In summer, the Danube bank is closed for cars on weekend so that people walking and cycling can enjoy it
This is so interesting. I have never been to Budapest but I liked your analysis. The human mobility score is a good idea.
This human mobility score concept came right out of George's mind! Glad you liked it :)
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Great review, George!! Felt exactly the same walking along Danube.
Budapest can learn from San Francisco's waterfront planning while San Francisco can learn from Budapest's plaza and open space planning. Cycling is similar and I hope both cities can remove the overabundance of car lanes for bike lanes and pedestrian space...
The issue isn't with Budapest but the national government that has already been screaming a witch hunt against drivers. One of the ministers was publicly shaming Budapest a few years back as it was too slow to drive for him in the downtown area. And because all the funding is in the hand of the government, the city is fighting an uphill battle if it comes to bigger projects.
As A Budapestian I can only agree with your scoring. The public transport network is amazing, however, I can feel the lack of pedestrian-friendly spaces very often. And I'd never ride a bike here, as it's super dangerous. But it's not as disturbing as the lack of pedestrian spaces, since I can get everywhere easily without a bike.
Great video, just found this channel with railways explained
Glad you liked it, Rick! Welcome ☺
The quality of your videos and the overall production is awesome. Thank you for your beautiful work! However, I don't feel that rap music matches this kind of content.
Unfortunately the car lobby, backed by the governement is very strong in Budapest. Drivers feel entitled to a (preferably free) parking spot wherever they please, and since the city is governed by the opposition, the drivers vs mass transit debate is heavily politicized. Plus for its size Budapest municipial budget is rather small, so any large development is dependent on the governement.
I always struggle with what's better: (1) bikes between traffic and parked cars or (2) next to pedestrians (leaving parked cars and traffic to your left)? I might be wrong with my comment below, but this is what I've seen with the poor cycling infrastructure in my area:
My experience is that in (2), the problem comes when there is an intersection. Cars coming from the right want to join the direction you are cycling. To do so, they need to show the car's nose, but they don't see anything due to the cars parked, so they will invade the whole bike path and cyclists will not be happy.
Another problem I've seen in (2) is when there is a roundabout. Having the bike path too segregated leads to having to wait for a traffic light next to pedestrians, quite a few meters away instead of flowing next to traffic and continuing straight to your destination.
What do you think? I would really like to dedicate my professional life to Urban Mobility (ideally without becoming a politician) and do not know where to start! Btw, I'm reading a great book called Movement: how to take back our streets and transform our lives, by Thalia Verkade and Marco Te Brömmelstroet. It's super insightful!
I am 78 years old and have my life in Budapest. Well, the city can be explored very well on foot, and the tram is the most important means of transport. A bicycle is a sports device. You can't go shopping with it, take a child to school, or ride in rain or snow. Bike is not a solution in public transport!
Nice video. Always funny seeing how people screw up the pronunciation of hungarian names
Ye im a hungarian but I wont get mad until they do the im hungry joke
So much potential to be a friendly quiet experience overall. Currently loud, dirty and unsafe to walk and cycle. Imagine the financial gains for business alone!
There's small political support unfortunately. People love their cars despite the noise, traffic jams and parking horror.
I agree that Budapest is very car centric, although things have enormously improved in the past few decades. If you know where to go you can find a lot of quiet, green spaces even right in the centre. They should improve the Danube embankments, yes, that should have been done years and years ago. Cut out al those motorways through the city! By the way, that spot on the Pest side around Erzsébet bridge is indeed the worst spot for pedestrians in the whole city.
Growing up in The Netherlands I'm well acquainted with cycling everywhere, but Budapest is not my favourite place to cycle. It's becoming better and better, but I'll rather use the public transport there. In the past decades they've turned the focus more on pedestrians, bicycles and, thankfully, again on public transport. The networks are slowly but gradually being expanded with new and reopened bus, tram and metro lines after so many years of decline and removal of lines. The tram network of Budapest used to consist of more than 60 lines and the HÉV network was also much more extended.
Interesting facts: there was (still is?) a rule in Budapest that no inhabited place could be more than 500 m away from a public transport facility and in my late childhood days the daytime schedule for trams 4 and 6 on the Nagykörút only had one line: every 30 seconds.
These trams are urban snakes! Is this peak transit?
Another tram line, no. 1, connecting the suburbs on a circular line has even longer vehicles (CAF Urbos 9 module version, 56m vs 54m).
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I think walking is quite good, shops are always close to you so you dont really need a car
Taipei Score🤔
Transit 3
Cycling 1
Walking 1
Bike-share 4
Total 9
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Thanks for sharing!