No parking in the city

Today and tomorrow will be a quite large meeting about the Nabucco gas pipeline which brings a lot of high ranked people to Budapest. Why this meeting is held is another story, I want to focus on the traffic situation in Budapest which is horrible, even worse than usual. The thing is that almost in the entire city the parking is not allowed for these 2 days of the gas summit so people working in the city can park nearly nowhere. This of course would not be a problem if people would use Budapests public transportation instead of coming into the city by car but the majority doesn’t.

While searching for free and legal parking spots the traffic will get stuck which will make it’s way anywhere into the city. I took a different way to work today because I saw already trouble on the Pest side of Budapest so I went on Buda side today because recently the Buda Rakpart, the fast road right next to the Danube, is almost completly open again.

I don’t know what the traffic is really like right in the city so I would be happy to hear somebodys view on that. Been in the city? Leave a comment!