On the Eurpean Mobility Week cycling was a hot topic in Budapest, too. A Cycling Conference, featuring more than 80 participants (planners, consultants, NGO's, local municipalities and governmental bodies) was organized by the Közlekedésfejlesztési Koordinációs Központ (KKK).
I had the chance to prepare a presentation about TRENECON COWI's best practice project, the "Complex cycling-friendly development of downtown Kaposvár". The presentation was held by János Tóth, the vice-mayor of this city of 70.000, a nice mid-sized town in south-west Hungary. Our plan was implemented from a mere 200.000 EUR covering the whole inner city with innovative cycling-friendly solutions. Nonconventional measures like speed reduction, bike boxes, contaflow cycling, advisory cycle lanes and sharrows weren't welcome by all of the audience in the beginning. No doubts remained however after the end of the presentation when the vice-mayor announced that there hasn't benn a single recorded traffic accident concerning cyclists since the implemantation of the project in Kaposvár!
Another topic of mine was a joint venture presentation with the great champions of urban cycling Virág Bencze-Kovács and László Vértesy representing our client BKK. The presentation was about the planning process of the bike sharing system Bubi that is going to be opened next spring. The presentation was identical with that English version we had held on the Velo-city conference in Vienna, back in June.
Full list of presentations
Review of HCC
I had the chance to prepare a presentation about TRENECON COWI's best practice project, the "Complex cycling-friendly development of downtown Kaposvár". The presentation was held by János Tóth, the vice-mayor of this city of 70.000, a nice mid-sized town in south-west Hungary. Our plan was implemented from a mere 200.000 EUR covering the whole inner city with innovative cycling-friendly solutions. Nonconventional measures like speed reduction, bike boxes, contaflow cycling, advisory cycle lanes and sharrows weren't welcome by all of the audience in the beginning. No doubts remained however after the end of the presentation when the vice-mayor announced that there hasn't benn a single recorded traffic accident concerning cyclists since the implemantation of the project in Kaposvár!
Another topic of mine was a joint venture presentation with the great champions of urban cycling Virág Bencze-Kovács and László Vértesy representing our client BKK. The presentation was about the planning process of the bike sharing system Bubi that is going to be opened next spring. The presentation was identical with that English version we had held on the Velo-city conference in Vienna, back in June.
Full list of presentations
Review of HCC