According to the government office, the capital has not implemented congestion, but according to BKK, everything has already been implemented.

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The Budapest Transport Center denies that it did not implement the government’s decision to increase the number of flights and did not provide any documentation to the government office. The Budapest government office said the opposite on Wednesday morning.

BKK wrote in its announcement that due to the epidemic, it has been operating more frequently than school hours since September, and at the request of the agency it has been operating with the highest capacity since November: all buses, trams, trolleybuses and subway trains existing in Budapest.

According to the government office, only 9 percent of BKK’s 300 lines have decided to increase traffic. On the contrary, BKK writes that they are aware of which lines it is advisable to place additional vehicles that can be put on the market. “These are the so-called trunk lines with the highest use in Budapest: the metro lines M3 and M4, the tram lines 1, 4, 6, the interlocking tram network of Buda, the bus routes on the Rákóczi út axis, as well such as flights that provide services to large district centers and urbanizations, such as 9, 23, 31, 32, 85, 95, 105, 151, bus 159 and trolleybuses 76 and 79M “.

According to BKK, a denser service than the current one could only be provided if the capital had immediate access to new vehicles, had enough drivers to transport them and had additional financial resources for the operation of the vehicles: fuel, maintenance.

Viktor Orbán announced on November 3 that an extraordinary legal order would come into force, the decree on the restrictions introduced in Hungary and the coronavirus epidemic also established that public transport companies in Budapest and the cities of the county must prepare a compression plan of flights on weekdays at 7 am and 9 am and 3 pm to 7 pm A day was given in the decree for this, the deadline was November 5.

The mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, criticized the decision even then, saying that a consultation with local governments would not have hurt, as in many places public transport is already operating at full capacity with less utilization.



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Tickets for the 100E bus could also be purchased between April and October, while the airport flight was not even available.