Pedestrians and cyclists are taking over the key section of the lower embankment in downtown Pest on Monday, 1 May. The road between Margaret Bridge and Elizabeth Bridge will be free of cars.
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Coming to Budapest for your course this autumn? Check out our new Budapest Student Guide for tips and information on how to stay, study and enjoy your time in Europe's liveliest and loveliest capital!
Move to zumba, take a spin on a bike on Heroes' Square and hike to the roof garden of the new Museum of Ethnography – all on SPORT NIGHT 2022, with scores of other lively attractions to take part in!
From this week, find a Mobi Point to park your scooter around Pest – there are 300 to choose from! The scheme should help alleviate the problem of discarded two-wheelers cluttering the streets.
Experience being in the body of a racing cyclist, try out an old training machine and learn about the colourful history of the Giro d'Italia tour race at a new exhibition at the Buda Castle Museum.
Running over the Danube some 35km north of Budapest, a spectacular new section of EuroVelo 6 route will link Dunabogdány and Kisoroszi on Szentendre Island.
From 2023, the main section of the lower embankment in downtown Pest will be free of motorists, making permanent an occasional weekend and holiday arrangement.
Spring's here at last! Dust down the bike, fish out your cossie and get set for all kinds of live music, indie, classical and pop – with a few cultural festivals thrown in.
Hungarian Cycling Tourism are organising fancy dress on two wheels, with costumed bike rides around Etyek and Szentendre to celebrate two recently renovated routes.
In further good news for cyclists and pedestrians, plans are afoot to relandscape the Danube embankment running south from Liberty Bridge, linked to the revamping of the transport hub at Boráros tér.
Cyclists and walkers can look forward to another stretch of the Danube to explore, way down in south Buda, once a new design is in place for the riverfront there.
Cyclists! Enjoy the freedom of the embankment one last time this summer when the section between Eötvös tér and Közraktár utca is closed off to traffic on 18 and 19 September.
Contracts have just been signed to create a huge new public park at the northern tip of Csepel island, with sports courts, cycling tracks, a ski park and large recreation areas.