Budapest Transportation Company plans to cut services

The BKV (Budapest Transportation Company) plans to eliminate 70 services in 2008, which accounts for approximately ten percent of its total, writes Népszabadság.

According to hirszerzo.hu, the BKV claims that it would save more than Ft 100 million (€400,000), and its decision is based on "modernization principles". More exact facts are currently unknown, except that if trams and buses are in service on the same route, the bus service will be terminated.

Urban and Suburban Traffic Association (VEKE) leader and BKV Supervisory Board member Dávid Vitézy calls the planned terminations and the scarcity of details infinitely injurious and destructive. He calls the argument of tram and bus services on the same areas false because there are no complete overlaps in the services, and the transformations will adversely affect passengers, causing serious difficulties because they will need to change more frequently.

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