At the moment I am out of HU so not sure what is going on with the new pick up/drop off bike rental business in Budapest.
I am all for saving money and doing what we can to cut back on smog in the city.
The BKV rates can be expensive for students on a budget and older people, working classes are also having to find ways to get around the high cost of city transportation.
The thing is from what we read on the internet there may be way too many bicycle users who do not follow safety practices as they should.
Many ride on the sidewalks without much care for the safety of walkers.
I witnessed my elderly neighbor walking on the sidewalk while a young many stopped 6 inches short of knocking her over because he was speeding on the sidewalk on a rainy day.
He just speed away without even saying sorry to her, she was shaking from the scare.
I understand the streets can be narrow in places and cars go fast and bikers are afraid of getting hit.
I am just wondering what rules or laws are out ther to protect innocent walkers from wreck less bikers who are sharing the sidewalks with children, elderly and handicapped people who may not be able to move out of the bikers way fast enough to protect themselves.
Any thoughts about this issue?
What is out there to protect walkers, what recourse is out there if we are hit by a biker who is at fault?
Perhaps the city should add more bike routes and bike lanes, who is going to pay for the new lanes though as only a small faction of the public rides bikes. There are many other things that the funds could be used for that would serve more people.
Just wondering, I have almost been hit twice by moped riders using the sidewalks, made me think who is going to pay for any broken bones and pain and suffering for accidents to walkers, the city, the bike rental business or the pubic?