Month: January 2009

A new strike has just started at Ferihegy Budapest Airport. It started at 16.00, and it is continuing the strike that was started before Christmas, but that ended on the 22 December. It was just a temporary break, and we were promised that if they could not come to agreement, new strikes would break out at the Budapest Airport. And now it has!

We still do not know much about it, how big the delays are expected to be, and what the consequences will be. Last time during the strike all traffic left from Budapest Ferihegy 2, but no such thing has been said yet. We will report back when we know more about the strike.

Last week we could experience some smog restrictions in Budapest as only those with paried or impaired licenseplates were allowed to drived on selected days. Now much larger restrictions are on the way. From October 20 this year all cars that has a yellow hexagonal sign below the dash on the licenseplate will be restricted when it comes to driving within Budapest. Those with a green color on the hexagonal sign below the dash will be free to drive. The restrictions will last from October 20 to March 8.

Those cars without catalysts will be suffering because of this, also those with a non regulated catalyst, and also most old cars from before 1998.

Below you can see a map from Origo showing where only those with green hexagons can drive between October 20 and March 8. Read full article about this here (Origo – Hungarian)

Transportation in Budapest

Yesterday a new Second World War bomb was found and “disarmed” in Budapest. This time it was found in the first district of Budapest, in Czakó Utca. Earlier (July 29 – 2008) we wrote about a bomb they found in the ninth district of Budapest, and some weeks before that a bomb was discovered in the 13th district of Budapest.

Yesterday they did not really disarm the bomb, but instead they dug a ditch for the bomb, and exploded it safely inside the hole they made for it. The bomb was a cluster bomb that had a weight of almost 25 kg.

I always receive emails when people comment on some post in our blog, and some minutes ago I received a funny one, with a solution to the entire gas problem. Curious? Read the comment found at the bottom of our page about the “Gas crisis in Eastern-Europe“.

Comment problem
Our blog has no way of showing the last comments made on any of the posts in our blog. That means that it is impossible for the viewers to find out if someone has commented on a blog post, if they do not check back on every single blog post continously. So, I am looking for some script or help to get the possibility to show somewhere on the blog frontpage, or in a menu, or somewhere else, the last 5-10 comments made on any blog article throughout the entire blog.

I know that Budapestagent has something similar at his blog, but as far as I see he is using WordPress, while our blog uses the Blogger platform. I am not sure if influences the thing, but if anyone can help, I would be very grateful!

Yesterday some news channels reported that sleety rain is expceted to fall in Budapest. Sleety rain (ónós eső) is rain that turns into ice before it hits the ground, and makes the road very slippery and dangerous. Therefore they adviced car owners to stay at home, and rather use public transportation today, if possible.

It is quite interesting that now when they allow everyone to travel with their cars (a few days ago they limited it because of the pollution caused by several big companies using oil instead of gas) a new thing show up that makes the official warn people from using their cars. Maybe we should just sell our cars and start walking instead 🙂