The Museum Underground Parking Lot has Opened in the City Park
Implementing the vision of a car-free City Park has reached a landmark: the Museum Underground Parking Lot has been opened as part of the Liget Budapest Project. The facility provides green parking on Dózsa György Road for park visitors and local residents, announced László Baán, ministerial commissioner for the Liget Budapest Project.
Besides the rehabilitation and enlargement of the park’s green areas, one of the main goals of the Liget Budapest Project, aimed at the renewal of the capital’s City Park, was to slash car traffic, which had been stifling the park for decades and, indeed, is still a huge environmental burden for the Liget, said László Baán, ministerial commissioner for the Liget Budapest Project. From now on, adults and children visiting the car-free City Park can spend their leisure time, do exercise and play in an environment that is significantly quieter and has much improved air quality. The first step towards realising the goal of a car-free public park was to eliminate surface parking on Ötvenhatosok Square; thus, the opening of the three-storey Museum Underground Parking Lot with 800 parking spaces is a fantastic landmark. During the emergency period due to the Covid-19 pandemic, parking is free in the underground parking lot for all between 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., as stipulated by the government’s relevant decree.
The fully accessible underground parking lot has designated spaces for mobility vehicles and motorbikes, while those with electric cars can benefit from parking spaces with EV charging stations, and cyclists can use the enclosed bike storage area on the top level of the parking facility fitted with changing rooms and showers and safely accessible on a ramp reserved for bikers.
The above-ground level of the Museum Underground Parking Lot – once occupied by a car park paved with basalt stones – has been replaced by a new walkway, called the Városliget Promenade, the middle section of which is a resting area fitted with atmospheric evening lighting and modern seating furniture, said Benedek Gyorgyevics, the CEO of Városliget Zrt. The recently renewed area located between the new building of the Museum of Ethnography and the Városliget Theatre, to be constructed on the corner of Dózsa György and Ajtósi Dürer roads – both realised as part of the Liget Budapest Project – has more than ten thousand square metres of new green surface, where more than 100 leafy trees, 4,000 shrubs and some 40 thousand flower bulbs and perennials have been planted. Visitors can also enjoy the 600-square-metre resting area with seating furniture stretching between the elegant promenade and the park.