Budapest is no longer a rat-free capital city

Billions of HUF for investments? Cleanings? Promises? After forty-seven years, they are no longer relevant because Budapest’s rat-free era might come to an end sooner than we thought. Obviously, due to spring and the warmer weather, these animals show up again after hiding away during the winter season, but in Budapest, they usually do not appear in reopened underground railways. Moreover, this year, there are no districts in the capital where residents have not seen any rats so far.

Index reported that the appearance of the rat in the renovated Metro Line 3 railway’s tunnel still creates doubts and questions, and the local government of Budapest remains silent about this matter. Last Wednesday, the freshly renovated metro line 3 had to be stopped for a few hours because a rat caused malfunctions in the tunnel’s system. The press sent two letters to the local government and BKK, but they did not receive an answer. Although a great number of rats started to flood the capital, the local government only reacted with a conventional answer:

“The local government of Budapest supervises every procedure involved to extirpate these animals.”

NEW STRETCH OF M3 ALREADY OUT OF SERVICE

There was a short circuit at one of the stations in the northern stretch of Metro line 3, and the metro was out of service for a couple of hours Wednesday morning. Passengers had to use replacement buses again because a cable caught fire thanks to the busy work of a tiny rodent. The recently revamped northern stretch of Metro line 3 has just been opened to the public again, and it was already out of service just a couple of weeks later. People who were busy to get to work in the morning on Wednesday had to use replacement buses instead of the metro.

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On the other hand, the professional organisation which was hired by the government to extirpate rats emphasised that they have no confirmed information about whether the animal found in the underground’s tunnel was actually a rat. This means that the animal could be a different species or it was a rat, but the local government did not take the matter seriously. Nevertheless, according to the organisation’s press release, they stated that: