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You will not recognize Budapest’s public transport vehicles from 2025
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From 2025, the Hungarian capital’s vehicle fleet may be renewed with additional modern, air-conditioned, low-floor and environmentally friendly buses. The new vehicles will be fully equipped to offer modern comfort and convenience for Budapest’s passengers.
BKK has launched public procurement procedures for the operation of public bus services. If the procedures are successful, the new agreements will replace the service contracts for the 240 buses in service from 2015, currently operated by ArrivaBus Kft., which expire on a scheduled basis from 2025. The new contracts are also expected to run for ten years and may be extended for a further two years.
The calls for tenders, published on Friday, 29 September 2023, will initially cover a total of 150 new buses – 50 single and 50 articulated buses and a further 50 articulated buses – to be put into service. The new vehicles, which will replace buses operating under expiring contracts on a rolling basis, will be able to operate on almost any route in the city.
The new buses, expected to be in service from 2025, will improve the quality of public transport in the capital. The vehicles will be expected to
• meet environmental requirements, and
• have features and equipment (spacious seating, air conditioning, accessibility, on-board cameras, advanced passenger information systems) that will increase passenger comfort.
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Exciting news for a daily user of our Public Transport.
Airport Bus – 100E redesign THEM, remove some seats exampled for LARGER luggage facilities, and increase buses, to compensate seating number eradication.
The MASSIVE amount of luggage they take on from start of there service route to the airport and stop(s) to the airport to final stop, and same in return journey from Airport to the stop(s) prior to there final mid city arrival point, the 100E buses need internal redesign modifying – URGENTLY.
Its UNCOMFOTABLE – and could be a Health & Safety issue and MUST be IMPROVED.