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Budapest to introduce time-based tickets soon
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Today, if you want to commute in Budapest, you either can buy a single ticket valid for one ride or passes for a day, a week, two weeks, a month, a semester or a year. Now, the city’s transport company would like to introduce a time-based ticket valid for multiple rides in a given time interval soon.
According to Helló Magyar, BKK Futár (journey planner) provides an excellent opportunity to check when your bus, metro, trolley bus, or tram is scheduled to stop at the station and when you can catch the next one. However, the company could not yet introduce an electronic ticketing system in Budapest.
Such a system has been planned since 2004, but AFC, the German company winning the tender,
could not make a functioning system.
Therefore, according to Népszava, Budapest sued them in September, and an international arbitration will decide on the issue. Meanwhile, the relevant loss reached 9 billion HUF because the AFC could accomplish only four phases out of the seven. As a result, the ticket readers bought by Budapest are still in stores.
Please John – research home-work – we live in District 5 and we buy Monthly Passes – for “needs” of Public Transport
John – facts – correct facts and examples – PLEASE.
Near enough is NOT good enough – facts – please.
Thank you, I missed mentioning monthly passes in the lead, but now I inserted them. Thank you for your message and sorry for the possible ambiguity.