The low-floor community transport service is further expanding in Budapest, by that helping the transport of persons with wheelchairs or prams, those with reduced mobility and the elderly. The expansion will start at the beginning of March, following the rejuvenation of the vehicle fleet of the capital with 15 brand-new buses.
The Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK) is taking another step forward to enhance the service standard of community transport in Budapest: so that the passengers could travel in a more comfortable way in the capital, the arrangement of low-floor buses is to be restructured on several bus lines. This is owing to the fact that 15 brand-new, articulated, air-conditioned, barrier-free Mercedes Conecto G buses operated by VT-ARRIVA are going to circulate in the capital as of 1 March 2016.
With the circulation of the new vehicles, the number of low-floor buses is further increasing: besides the current ones, there will be 5 new, barrier-free buses circulating on line 97E, one new bus on line 36, and altogether 9 new buses on lines 133 and 233. With the arrival of the new buses and the rearrangement of bus lines, barrier-free transport is going to improve all over the city. There will be an increase in the number of low-floor buses on lines 7E, 23, 31, 34, 54, 85, 85E, 97E, 106, 107, 109, 123, 123A, 136E, 201E, 202E, 233 and 276E. On lines 23, 54, 107, 136E and 233, it will be nothing else but only barrier-free buses circulating every day.
With the new vehicles put into service, more than 80% of all the buses circulating on the lines of BKK will be low-floor ones, which will help the transport of persons with wheelchairs or prams, those with reduced mobility and the elderly, as well.
