Well, finally! The City Hall has woken up and is announcing an advanced campaign. Now the people of Budapest can also have a say in the developments! They can vote for 6 options.
That's great! Wonderful! Great! The idea of popular sovereignty lives on!
But what can they decide? Let's look at some of the possible progressive great options.
No, please, this is not a joke, it's advanced reality itself. Because what could be more important in the life of Budapest than placing pianos in public spaces? Or luggage lockers in busy city squares? It is also indisputable, isn't it, that the creation of community "build yourself" workshops is a matter of life, since half the capital will be building there.
It is an even more advanced idea and vital to support legal street art actions. For those who don't know what this means - street art in crude translation. Like, say, the matter of the cow statues that appear every year. But why should this be decided? Or was it illegal until now?
It is also not well understood what should be meditated on the establishment of public urinals? Especially experimentally. What is the subject of the experiment? The shape of the urinal? Is the idea really to be completely open-air, without any kind of walls or screens? I mean, the urinal only serves the needs of men, what would they offer the ladies? If the question was about public toilets, it would be fine. But so?
I absolutely cannot understand why there is a need to vote separately on making official letters understandable? Quoted from Gábor Sebes' Facebook post, "...
The capital allocates 1 billion for the implementation of the very progressive proposals. For these?!!!
Of course, we would be unfair if we only mentioned these few selected examples, among the 49 topics left in the competition, there are also some sane suggestions. And even more absurd brainstorming.
I ask that the voting is already closed, because I also have alternative proposals, perhaps these could also be considered by the think tank that suffered the above. So:
1. Reassemble the dismantled waste collection containers.
2. Eliminate bicycle lanes painted without any expertise.
3. They mow down the gas sea on the "bee pastures".
4. Only one, at most, two deputy mayors should be paid, and there should be no more than five advisers.
5. Abolish the representation of the capital in Brussels, which is not good for anything, but costs a lot.
6. Pay the HUF 20,000 heating subsidy that Gergely Karácsony promised in the campaign.
We have more ideas, but I'm afraid that these are not trendy enough questions for the "creatives" in Budapest.
But if we have to decide on these, let's say there should be a lot of pianos with urinals on top. It's even street art.
Author: Jr. György Tóth
(Cover image: Outdoor urinal in Amsterdam. Image: omniplan.hu)
