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Athens: ATH.ENA Ticket ATH.ENA Card Transport for Athens (buses, trolleybuses, metro, tram and suburban railway) February 2017 (ATH.ENA Ticket) October 2017 (ATH.ENA Card) Hungary: Budapest: RIGO Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) 2016 through 2018 Iceland: Reykjavík (Capital Region) Klapp Strætó bs. 17 November 2021 [53] Ireland: Dublin
The Budapest Cog-wheel Railway (Hungarian: budapesti fogaskerekű vasút) is a rack railway in the Buda part of the Hungarian capital city of Budapest. It connects a lower terminus at Városmajor , two tram stops away from the Széll Kálmán tér transport interchange, with an upper terminus at Széchenyihegy . The line is integrated into the ...
Following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 that created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, transport issues became the responsibility of the Hungarian Government, which also inherited the duty to support local railway companies. This came at a considerable cost: in 1874 8% of the annual budget went to railway company subsidies.
The last major transport change of Budapest was the foundation of BKV in the 1960s. The foundation of BKK was decided on October 27, 2010 by the General Assembly of Budapest. They appointed Dávid Vitézy as CEO. From May 1, 2012 BKK began to do many functions of BKV: Operating public transportation, planning network, lines and time schedules
Bus transport between municipalities was provided by Volán Companies, twenty-four bus companies founded in 1970 and named after the regions they served. They also provided local transport in cities and towns that did not have their own public transport company (all cities except for Budapest, Miskolc, Pécs, Kaposvár and also Debrecen after 2009), and operated bus lines in cities where the ...
The Budapest Metro (Hungarian: Budapesti metró, pronounced [ˈbudɒpɛʃti ˈmɛtroː]) is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest.Opened in 1896, it is the world's second oldest electrified underground railway after the City and South London Railway of 1890, now a part of London Underground, and the third oldest underground railway with multiple stations, after the ...
Budapesti Közlekedési Zrt. or BKV Zrt. (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbudɒpɛʃti ˈkøzlɛkɛdeːʃi ˈzeːjɛrteː], "Budapest Transit Company", the abbreviation BKV stands for its earlier name Budapesti Közlekedési Vállalat) is the main public transport operator in Budapest, Hungary.
The end of the single-use paper ticket came in 2017, [7] when it was succeeded by the ATH.ENA electronic stored-value cards and tickets (stylized as ATH.ENA CARD and ATH.ENA TICKET respectively). Tickets are now rechargeable and can be loaded with up to 5-day unlimited ticket, but not with long term fare products, discount tickets (support ...