Eight hours of work, eight hours of travel...

I don't know what's wrong with the fact that Gergely Karácsony and his gang would like to make paid parking mandatory in the entire area of ​​Budapest, at the suggestion of the angry green Air Working Group. They want good, they will help us if they practically eliminate driving. Or not.

Something called the Air Task Force has been warning for a long time, the enemy's hand has been put in place by driving. Far ahead of their time, they also spoke out against the extension of the M1 motorway to the national border, practically claiming that motorways are thermal for cars. After all, where they have not been before, they will now go, that is, they will make themselves where the undisturbed (or already disturbed by farming) mother nature has cultivated.

And yes! Don't build highways! Because they will be full of cars! It is true, of course, that in this way the inhabited areas can be avoided, that with continuous progress much less polluting substances are produced than in traffic jams, but these statements (facts) are only good for disturbing the great ideas of clear-thinking air enthusiasts.

Air pollution is increasing even if it is decreasing, we will not open a debate about this!

And now here's the brilliant idea, whoever rolls at least one wheel of his car within the borders of Budapest, commits an assassination against the environment, for which he must be punished. How dare anyone get into a car in, say, Gödöllő, and then drive into the capital, because that's where they work? Here is the new slogan:

Your choice! Driving or working!

You can take HÉV, take the metro from Örs vezér square, but if the workplace is in, say, Csepel, one or two more transfers will fit in. It is true that the travel time is extended by hours, it is true that the round trip would be very expensive, but not for him. We pay for that, not the Levegős, not even the Christmas Guard that likes to ride in the bus lane. However, it is time to rewrite the well-known hit text in the meantime:

Eight hours of work, eight hours of travel, eight hours of fun with us.

But who cares? If you don't like it, pay! Let's say HUF 600 per hour, if the job is tied to such a zone. What is HUF 4,800 for him (the dirty driver) counting 8 hours a day? It's hardly more than 96,000 per month! That dirty air polluter will learn that nature - as well as the revenues of the capital city government - must be protected!

What a wonderful perspective this proposal opens up! Finally, it will not be a problem to raise the monthly appanage of over a million for the legions of consultants, while it is also an advantage that it is possible to anger those who are not in solidarity with the mayor and have fraudulently passed their driving test at some point. I would have liked to fail like Karácsony five times, I wouldn't be enraged by dilettantes, but at least by malicious decisions.

But if this is the case, a complex solution should be sought. Because it is feared that the tens of thousands of cars arriving in Budapest every day will try to evade the payment obligation. Under the cover of night, they tiptoe into Budapest and park their vehicles in secluded streets and dirt roads, hoping that a parking inspector will not come. And according to the law of large numbers, many of them are successfully hiding, which is simply unacceptable. After all, non-payers would steal Christmas! Scandal!

That is why the great possibility of the future is to employ thousands of new inspectors in order to increase employment in the capital. They will ride the roads on electric scooters, hunting the blitzers. In the evening, of course, it doesn't hurt to wash your vehicles in a tub of water, so that you don't end up representing the capital with a muddy and dusty scooter! A good, orderly appearance can arouse sympathy in motorists who have been fined. Or if colored parking meters were installed, the people involved would surely pay thousands happily.

But it would be a shame to stop here. In order to filter out those who don't want to pay, it would be a good idea to surround Budapest with a high stone wall, and to install toll gates on the city walls for the entrance roads. Well, that's something, because the car can't fly over the wall. Today.

We can remember the long-ago claim that parking fees are a means of traffic regulation. Where they are higher, vehicles will stop less, that was the slogan. But this is stupidity, the brainchild of socialism. We now live in capitalism, where the only goal is to increase income. And because this capitalism is democratic, there are no exceptions, everyone has to pay. Even if you want to park in front of your apartment. András Pikó (We Take It From The Kindergarteners And Give It To Our Friends) has already implemented this in Józsefváros, and since he is still the mayor, the model can be safely applied elsewhere. (By the way, that's right, don't rebel against Piko, they chose who cooks what, eats it.)

But let's pause for a dramatic moment. If public transport is really democratic, what about pedestrians or cyclists? Please, by walking on the public asphalt and planing the surface of the roads by wheeling, no one cares about this? Old mistake! And it's even bigger to miss such an obvious opportunity.

Make the purchase of pedestrian and bicycle passes mandatory, so motorists would pay even if they are not behind the wheel. Of course, even those who don't have a car, but all the better.

Dear Levegő Munkagroup, dear Gergely Karácsony, the incompetent mayor! I hope I have given new impetus to their work with my ideas, if necessary, I have a few more up my sleeve. Feel free to contact me - even though my brain might be confused for some reason and instead of giving advice, I would send you somewhere.

True, they are not as bad as we are. You don't have to pay there.

Author: György Tóth Jr