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The government wants to prevent the development of green vehicles in Budapest, but the capital will not give up the fight, the mayor said on Wednesday.
Gergely Karácsony wrote on his Facebook page that the government has already decided that it wants to prevent further development of green vehicles in Budapest.
According to him, it is difficult not to see the procedure of forcing public transport already at full capacity to become congested a few minutes before midnight on Tuesday and then appear on Wednesday morning that a new generation of low-floor and environmentally friendly cars the government would avoid the acquisition of trams. “However, they don’t need anything from them other than a signature. They can’t do that either,” the mayor said, according to an MTI report.
The morning’s decision indicated, he continued, that the capital could only use the existing credit line from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to buy vehicles. However, this line of credit is already concluded, it largely contains the source of the developments decided during the time of the previous mayor, István Tarlós – Gergely Karácsony pointed out. He added that this includes a framework for the Chain Bridge, road renovations or the development of Plaza Blaha Lujza and Plaza Széna, for example.
That is why the new city administration negotiated much more favorable conditions with the EIB than the financial conditions of the previous credit line. In fact, it is the European aid that must be repaid. About one the government wants to use anyway. “He is free, he would forbid it to us”, and he cannot put a “terrible signature at the bottom of a paper”, says Gergely Karácsony’s post.
Christmas said they would give up the fight because they are convinced that the development of vehicles, which directly serves 1.5 million inhabitants of Budapest and indirectly 3 million people, is in the interest not only of Budapest, but of the entire country. It expands and makes public transport more comfortable, contributes to improving air quality. “So I will not abandon the biggest green vehicle development in decades,” declared the mayor.
He said they were negotiating more with the European Union bank and “if necessary, we will call on the people of Budapest to force that damn government signature.”
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