Situated in the northern corner of this large
park on the Buda side of the city.
Completed in 2013 it is the third project resulting from a cooperation between the Swedish embassy, the municipality of Budapest and business Sweden. All the projects are underpinned by the principles of the Swedish sustainability program, which seeks to promote an environmentally conscious lifestyle.
The new station has been designed to promote the urban cyclist. With opportunities not only to linger, either to meet friends or to enjoy a moment of tranquility during a busy day as such the park offers lots of good quality seating, solar powered lighting and finally an interactive installation created from used bike parts. There is also a bike service point to correct any niggles that you may have using the service stand and tools or pump.
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The art installation . All the red inlay of the "Y" are used bike gear rings.
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Local talent in the form of landscape architecture students from the Corvinus university were used right through the development of the project from initial design ideas to creation of the station. Perhaps as a result, there certainly a lot of interesting touches, of course there is lots of pleasent landscaping using a variety of different plants but also different kinds of gravel being used and so you get an interesting sensation underfoot when exploring the area
Personally Having visited the station on a number of occasions you always notice passers-by spending a little time to explore themselves, reading the information boards etc.
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| the tools have been removed |
Unfortunately some of these are rather more curious than others! Despite all of this positivity the park has become a victim of the realities of everyday life in the city, with a few of the tools already stolen.
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