The Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) has signed an agreement with Spain’s CAF on the option to extend a contract to purchase additional low-floor trams, BKK said in a statement on Thursday.
In line with the agreement, the option to buy 31 vehicles has been extended until March 18, 2023. The price would be comparable to 2014 prices, the statement added. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Facebook that “the good response to the cost-of-living crisis, the climate crisis and the energy crisis is to continue developing public transport”.
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The conundrum remains – in the PRIORITIZATION of Funding for Public NEEDS.
WHY personal experience abdominal major surgery in an INNER Budapest Hospital – private & public, that overall was like being in for 12 days a 3rd World Hospital.
Hungary – like Education the NEED of Investment into the Public Health system Hospitals and all the componentry that comes under the RESPONSIBILITY of a Government in the Health of its Citizens – is seriously overdue, in being up-dated to represent that we are in the 21st century and not the 19th century.
This present Government, its PRIORITIZATION of Funding off-set, has been a cataclysmic disaster, which leaves us in a WORSENING position as a country in PUBLIC Health – Hospitals and “other” in the same NEGLECTED investment as is the factual picture with EDUCATION – that sees us as a country NEEDING billions of forints to bring us up to standards of the 21st century.
Trams up-grade especially what is running presently on lines 47,48 and 49 – 1970’s built by Ganz – and on “other” lines of the same vintage – we NEED modernization extension of our running fleet, but its PRIORITIZATION and HUMANS must be first Hospitals & Education as examples over Trams.
The MODERNIZATION – the PUBLIC needs I refer in my commentary – the billions of forints NEEDED – where are we as a country going to OBTAIN or FIND – this type of MONEY – that will bring us into the 21st century?
WHO are GOING to be our Bankers?
There is no reason why they can’t design a low floor tram that has the same charm and character as the old ones instead of a snake slivering though the neighborhood and rip out the classical amenities that made Budabest one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I especially love the towering light poles that focus on traffic – forget the human pedestrian scale,