The 50th anniversary of the vehicles purchased for the 1973 anniversary could also be celebrated in Budapest, where there was no mention of further developments on the 150th birthday, the transport and urban mobility expert pointed out.
Not a word could be said about the development of Budapest on its 150th birthday, Dávid Vitézy wrote in his Facebook post, thus holding a crooked mirror to Gergely Karácsony, who leads the capital.
The traffic specialist said it would be a nice thing to clean the underpasses (why only at this time?), sprinkle a part of the parking lot of the City Hall with a little gravel and finally let people through the yard (it should have been a long time ago) and start a party tram for a few days.
However, according to Vitézy, all this is not enough, and the current mayor cannot show more than this.
"In the meantime, if we just look at the Kisfölladlatti or the Gearwheel, we could even celebrate the 50th anniversary of the vehicles purchased for the 1973 anniversary," Vitézy wrote, according to whom there is no prospect of replacing them in the coming years.
As he put it, Budapest turned 100 years old in 1973, and for the 100-year anniversary of the unification of the capital, the complete reconstruction of the Kisföldalatt, the extension of the Mexikói út, was completed, and the new vehicles that are still serving today arrived.
"The section of the M2 subway between Déli pályaudvar and Deák Ferenc tér and the surface rearrangements on Moskva tér and Batthyány tér have been completed. The H5 route was extended to Batthyány tér, and the underground section from Margit bridge was built. The passenger hall of the new South Railway Station was completed, the new subway connection and underpass were completed, and the entire renovation of the Cogwheel was completed and the vehicles that have been in use until now arrived. The first Ikarus 260 and 280 buses have arrived in the BKV fleet, replacing hundreds of Budapest buses with the then completely modern new Hungarian buses that arrived in Budapest in recent years. In addition, new overpasses were built on Csömöri út, Jászberényi út, Grassalkovich út, the construction of the M3 subway between Deák Ferenc tér and Nagyvárad tér took place with great effort, and the renovated Chain Bridge and Váralagut were handed over to traffic - Dávid Vitézy listed the developments in Budapest that took place fifty years ago. He added that all this is only about transport, renewed parks, new hospitals, other facilities and, of course, housing construction have not even been mentioned yet.
The transport specialist then announced that, in comparison, today, during the mayorship of Gergely Karácsony, not a single fixed track investment is in progress, after the completion of the renovation of the M3 subway.
"None. This is completely unique for a city of this size in Europe, metros, suburban railways and trams are being built everywhere, from Warsaw to Prague, from Bucharest to Vienna, from Munich to Barcelona. I'm not crying back to the seventies, don't get me wrong. But comparing the list from fifty years ago with today's situation, I feel as if time has stopped," Vitézy emphasized, according to whom we are essentially at the point where all tangible ambition and vision have disappeared behind the real, large-scale infrastructural development of the city - so the developments on the side of the government, which stops and thinks about the development of the countryside, as hiding behind the undoubtedly real lack of resources in the cities, giving up on all development and not even daring to think about the future, not making plans, only bringing quick publicity, preferring small interventions, moreover, according to a false green ideology, everything on the municipal side, which methodically obstructs greater possible development.
"In this situation, in fact, this 150th anniversary was a symbol of the complete renunciation of the development of the capital for me, it's a pity. If possible, let's not wait until Budapest's 200th birthday for this to change," wrote Dávid Vitézy.
Cover photo: The party tram in Budapest on the occasion of the city's birthday
Source: Facebook/Gergely Kárácsony
