In a world projected to be devastated due to climate change if we do not do enough about it, cycling has found renewed importance. Studies have shown that switching from car in cities to cycling even just one day a week can reduce your carbon footprint by about half a ton of CO₂ over a year.
In light of that information, Budapest’s citizens are showing the way to a climate-conscious population.
Budapest began record-keeping of cycling trips in the city in 2017. Budapest’s largest public transport company BKK recently reported that this August saw the highest number of cycling trips on the streets of Budapest since the record-taking began.
Their traffic counting device on Bem Square counted 144,632 bicycle crossings. The figure is a 7% increase compared to last August and a 15% increase from August 2019, the year before the pandemic.
MOL Bubi, a publicly owned bike-sharing firm in Budapest, also logged a record amount of trips. The service was used 358,000 times in August, according to BKK.
In addition, the BKK emphasizes in a news release that they aim to ensure that anyone can choose cycling as a form of transportation at any moment.
However, according to the BKK traffic report for 2021, despite the rise in cycling, the total share of the population that uses bicycles as their prime mode of transport continues to remain very low at just 2%. This is compared to the 47% using public transport, 35% private cars, and 16% of pedestrians.
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