You might be wondering: is this going to be about transportation habits? And what does this have to do with culture and the Aquincum Museum?
Day by day thousands of cars and lorries drive along Szentendrei Road. Heavy inbound traffic in the morning, heavy outbound traffic in the evening, and on the weekend people drive to the shopping centre. It’s the same story every week. You might be wondering: is this going to be about transportation habits? And what does this have to do with culture and the Aquincum Museum? As a matter of fact: a lot! The hundreds, no, thousands of motorists – still sleepy in the morning and rushing home in the evening – probably don’t have the inclinations to look around a bit.
But if we take a moment to think – or look – we’ll find lots of details that are well worth closer inspection. We started this blog to shed light on these in some cases hidden and in others conspicuous ancient remains.
It will come as no surprise that we too take the same roads. Dóra Erőss, one of our colleagues, told us the other day about how much she had to wait in traffic, but this gave her a chance to have a look at the various Roman remains along the road. Taking our cue from this, with the help of modern technology, we’re launching our Aquincum traffic jam blog to give motorists and bus passengers something to read about what they can see while sitting in traffic if they peek out the (side) window.
Images from: Google Street View
Dániel Kővágó
