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Budapest transport will not be restored even by the beginning of 2023
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The renovation of metro line 3 will not be ready by the new deadlines. The reconstruction of the entire line was originally due to be completed in early 2023, but the Budapest Transport Company (Budapesti Közlekedési Vállalat, BKV) has confirmed that traffic will only resume in the second quarter.
Passenger traffic on the M3 metro line can only start in the second quarter of 2023, BKV confirmed to VG.hu, which means that the project has been delayed by a quarter of a year compared to the latest plans.
Another three-month delay
At the end of September last year, the capital’s company told VG.hu that the entire metro line 3 is scheduled to be opened to passenger traffic in the first quarter of 2023. The same is also stated on the official website of the metro renovation. The three-month delay, which has just been officially announced, has been made up in just over a year.
Even after the handover, travel is not yet possible
According to current plans, the renovation work will be completed by March 2023, but will be followed by inspections and trial runs. Only after these have been completed will passenger services on Metro Line 3 be able to start.
What a cataclysmic EXPANSIVE tax burden, this continues to be on the Citizens of Hungary.
Pick a Date in 2023 – of FULL operation of the M3.
Leave out testing and “other” Safety & Health – Legal requirements of operation.
My prediction, depending on the State of Hungary – Economically, Financially & Politically – August 2023 ?
Our metro station – Ferenciek ter – on the M3 – closed February 2020 and not even partly opened since that closure date.
M5 – in the WILDEST of our Dreams.
Hungary – possible – if this present Government are Allowed & Permitted by the Citizens of Hungary – to remain in POWER, we may have left the European Union or been “Booted out” – by the time – sods of soil and “other” works are thought of being commenced, that begs the QUESTION – who is going to FUND a project, the magnitude of the construction of the M5 ?