Surely every politician’s dream is to have the citizens of their city prefer the bicycle over the car, thus erasing an entire city’s congestion, pollution, health and parking problems?

Not so in Budapest, where bicycle activists have had to fight every step of the way to have bicycle infrastructure included during the building of new roads and bridges.

Budapest highlights this world-wide phenomenon because it is a city that is transitioning from communism, when fewer people owned private cars, and thus it’s only been in recent years that the government has begun to invest in large road building projects,