Margit Bridge to be closed beginning of 2009

I have heart already about the closing of Margit bridge but didn’t know when it should happen. According to Caboodle and Népszabaság Margit bridge will be closed early next year as the press department of the mayor of Budapest announced. The problem will be that Szabadság bridge will still be closed at that time which means that only 5 out of 7 bridges in Budapest will work. Szabadság bridge will be opened for tram traffic on December 20th and for cars in end of May.

Margit bridge in Budapest is one of the most frequesnted of all Budapest bridges and this traffic has to go somewhere. Mainly the neighbouring bridges Árpád and Chain bridge will have to carry this traffic thus people going to work across these bridges have to expect even heavier traffic in this time.

Only good thing about these news is that the tram traffic will not suffer from the construction, just cars and busses cannot cross the bridge anymore. Anyways, all this will happen in winter time when everybody is going by car to work. According to Caboodle the timing cannot be postponed as it is a EU project with strict deadlines but at least it also defines that the constructions have to be finished latest in 2010.