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In Budapest, all vehicles were on the market, “every driver who can be hired works,” said the Budapest Transport Center (BKK).
In their announcement, they responded that, according to the capital’s government office, 91 percent of their flights were not yet compressed by BKK, MTI writes.
BKK wrote that with the flight reductions introduced in September and November, “all existing and combatable vehicles in the capital were put on the market” together with transport providers in the capital.
Taking advantage of the maximum number of vehicles available in practice, employing all the drivers that can be deployed in the current situation, the transport companies have reached the ceiling.
According to them, although the use of flights has fallen again across the city since the epidemiological tightening in November, “it remains the most important thing for the local government of the capital, BKK and the service providers to be able to travel safely in Budapest” .
“To this end, of course, it is also working with the capital’s government office, which is once again reporting misleading information about flight congestion,” he said in a statement.
BKK reiterated that it is not true that the company has not implemented the government’s decision to increase the number of flights and that it has not provided documentation to the government office in this regard.
In view of the epidemic situation, they added, the flights have been launched more frequently than in the school term since September, and at the request of the agency they have been operating at maximum capacity since November: all buses, trams, trolleybuses and existing metro trains in Budapest.
According to BKK, these measures can be interpreted as misleading for the people of Budapest by deciding “only 9 percent of BKK’s 300 lines” to increase traffic.
They put it this way: BKK “knows exactly which lines need to be marketed for additional vehicles that can be launched.” These are the so-called trunk lines, in which the use is greater: metro lines 3 and 4, tram lines 1, 4, 6, lines of the interlaced tram network of Buda, bus services on the Rákóczi út axis As well as flights serving large district centers and housing estates, such as 9, 23, 31, 32, 85, 95, 105, 151, bus 159, and trolleybuses 76 and 79M were on the list.
The ad also misrepresented the claim that 100 buses had been “unnecessarily” removed from congestion due to the replacement of Metro 3. The downtown section of the metro is currently under renovation, the line is not suitable for traffic from the subway, they wrote.
It was highlighted that the extra flights integrated into the morning schedule, which is already scheduled for 9 am and the afternoon peak until 7 pm, are run according to the busiest possible schedule. A more dense service than the current one could only be provided if the capital immediately acquired new vehicles, had enough drivers to transport them, and had additional financial resources for the operation of the vehicles: fuel, maintenance.
It was also recalled that in addition to the 1200 buses provided by BKK, Volánbusz offers 140 additional buses in local traffic in Budapest, on such defining lines as route 22 from Széll Kálmán tér or 169E from Örs vezér tér to Rákoskeresztúr.
“However, Volánbusz does not take its share of Budapest’s traffic congestion in any way, and has not even increased the capacity of its 140 buses operating in Budapest, referring to the government decree,” the statement read.
According to the BKK, the government decree, in reference to which the capital government office requests greater compression of traffic in Budapest, stipulates that local public transport companies in the capital and in cities with county status must prepare a flight compression plan.
BKK is puzzled that the local office in Budapest will also accept the significant increase in flights, while there are some cities with county status where flights will start according to the holiday schedule earlier this week, that is, less frequently than before. , according to the same government decree.
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