8/28/2011

The public transport of Budapest

is good by international standards and it's an efficient network. A wide variety of buses, trolley buses, trams and underground usually operate from early morning to night. At night many bus lines are in service.

The buses in Budapest are frequent and fast. The old trams are still functional.
The most popular lines are the 4 or 6.

Budapest has special vehicles such as the Children’s Railway,

the Chairlift

and the interesting Cogwheel railway.

Put into service in 1874, it was Europe’s third cogwheel railway.
One can use the suburban train to visit such towns outside Budapest as Szentendre, Ráckeve or
Gödöllő.

They are comfortable but noisy and relatively slow.
The underground is the oldest in Europe, it was built in 1896, to celebrate the millennium.

Budapest has 3 metro lines: M 1, the yellow line from Vörösmarty tér to Mexikói út; M2, the red line from Déli train station to Örs vezér tere; and M3, the blue line from Újpest to Kőbánya-Kispest. The 4th line is under construction.

I can buy tram and bus tickets at metro stations or from street kiosks.
Budapest has three main railway stations (Nyugati, Keleti, Déli) they are located on the edge of the downtown

and seven road bridges such as Árpád, Margit, Lánc-, Erzsébet,
Szabadság, Petofi, the recently opened Lágymányos

and two railway bridges across the Danube.




No comments: