Budapest Airport train project delayed and planned to be built out of smaller budget
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The ordering company has delayed the plans. The Hungarian government is waiting to decide whether the new train line would be a direct or indirect line and whether it would be operated as a separate line.
Daily News Hungary reported before that a direct speed-train between Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport and Budapest city centre had been planned for years, but yet no constructions have been started. The Chinese company CRRC has plans on building a train line connecting the capital directly to the airport.
According to Magyar Nemzet, the reason why the government delayed the project is that one of its parts were not completed in time. The original deadline was the summer of 2017 which has been expanded to this summer.
From the planned 1.8 billion HUF (5 million EUR) the new budget is 1.4 billion HUF (4 million EUR).
In another article, our website reported that, unfortunately, it seems like we still have some waiting ahead of us. As it turns out, the question is no longer whether it can be done at all; the delay is more because the airport has been privatised and the concession contract is causing problems.
The current project is building a train line which would set off from Kőbánya-Kispest and be connected to Nyugati Railway Station in the city centre. The new route (called junction 100) would pass next to the airport or beneath it.