Sixteen New Midibuses To Replace Budapest’s Worn-Out Fleet This Year

  • 11 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
Sixteen New Midibuses To Replace Budapest’s Worn-Out Fleet This Year
A total of sixteen new diesel midibuses are to arrive to Budapest until the end of the year, according to an agreement signed on Friday by Kálmán Dabóczi, head of the Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK) and Gábor Tamás Nagy, mayor of the capital’s District I.

The HUF 909 million investment was made necessary by the fact that only 21 of the capital’s once 90-strong midibus fleet are now suitable for daily service.

The Turkish-made midibuses are accessible to wheelchair users, operate with environmentally friendly EURO6 diesel engines and are air-conditioned. The vehicles are equipped with 23 seats each and are able to carry a total of 40 passengers at a time. The buses will run in Buda’s historic Castle District, but exact routes are currently unknown.

Budapest’s midibus fleet once numbered ninety buses; however, the number has by now fallen to 28, only 21 of which are available for day-to-day service. The maintenance of a 40-strong midibus fleet would currently be necessary but it could prove rational to operate as many as sixty buses in the capital, a statement issued by BKK reads.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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