The beer bikes strike back
After city officials banned beer bikes from the streets of central Budapest during 2017, the few surviving beer-bike tour companies form a rebel alliance with armies of bachelor-partying stag groups to charge back into downtown with their booze-powered vehicles reinforced for drunken battle.
Rooftop bars add rooftop bars
As new (and increasingly exclusive) rooftop bars continue to pop up above Budapest’s nightlife scene, older rooftop bars compete to stay popular by building additional stories and opening new rooftop bars overhead; the fanciest of them are restricted to guests arriving by helicopter or zeppelin.
Metro stations add energy-field entry gates
During 2017, Budapest’s public-transport officials installed the city’s first electronic entry gates for the metro system, but after deciding that these are not advanced enough to keep out ride-stealing passengers, they add high-tech energy-field systems that disintegrate anyone without a ticket.
All of District VII is turned into a silent disco
Responding to last year’s local demonstrations about the out-of-control partying that fills downtown’s District VII every night, Budapest authorities decree that the entire neighborhood become a silent disco, where music can only be amplified through headphones worn by everyone who enters.
Hello Wood builds a pop-up bridge
Following the widespread popularity of Hello Wood’s pop-up park in downtown Budapest during summer 2017, the organization of creative craftspeople constructs an artfully curvaceous pop-up bridge over the Danube; after it becomes a well-liked landmark, city officials decide to make it permanent.
