She noted that the metro had to be stopped on Tuesday after smoke emerged from the tracks. This, she said, was far from the first technical problem reported in recent times.

The Socialists’ Budapest group leader Csaba Horváth said the planned transfer of Budapest transport company BKV to the city council would not solve technical problems so the party did not support it. He said preparations had already been made before 2010 to start the metro 3 revamp project right after the metro 4 line was completed.

However, currently only some inadequate maintenance work is being done, he added. The opposition Democratic Coalition also called on the revamp of the metro line as a matter of urgency.

Tarlós said in response that the Socialists should be quiet about metro 3. He said for 20 years before 2010, the Socialists had done nothing with the line originally built in 1976, “not even on the level of revealing the problems.”

“They left behind BKV in a penniless and indebted state and a M3 metro line ... without any resources,” he said.

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