LMP to start collecting signatures calling for full-scale renovation of M3

Budapest (MTI) – The opposition LMP party said it will collect signatures in the coming weeks to demand the full-scale renovation of Budapest’s metro 3 line, including the provision of wheelchair access.

Giving a press conference at one of the metro stations of line 3 on Saturday, Antal Csárdi, a Budapest councillor of the party, said the government “is gambling with the lives of Budapest residents” when it refuses to see the importance of the metro reconstruction and will not start the work immediately. “We often hear from Fidesz that there is no money for this,” Csárdi said, adding that the 40 billion forints that the state did not pay to the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) to finance agglomeration transport would provide sufficient funding for the renovation of the metro stations.