Budapest's Streetwalkers Forced to Relocate in Police-Sponsored Tug Job

Although Thököly út is generally known as one of the parts of Budapest where you're likely to find streetwalking prostitutes, the only area where they were allowed to legally operate was along a stretch of industrial road on the outskirts of District XV at the northern tip of Budapest, index.hu reports (see map). Now, however, the streetwalkers have been forced one road over without any warning (from the yellow to the red highlighted section on the map), meaning many of their regular clients have been unable to find them.

According to the girls, the plans to build a film studio on their old street were the reason they were shunted over to a smaller two lane road, while the police contend that traffic on their former road became too busy to guarantee the girls' safety, although conceding that the film studio construction also played a role in their decision to force the relocation.