According to the report, the carriages will undergo transformation both inside and on their exteriors. An emergency exit will be built into their front end, passenger spaces will be quiter and wheelchair accessibility will provide for a larger number of seats, which will also be more comfortable.

Although plans for the carriages’ HUF 69bn (USD 244m) reconstruction are secret until the contract is signed on Monday, the article points out that pictures the modern successor of the Budapest metro cars currently made by the Russian firm Metrowagonmash, the company which will carry out the modernisation project, are available on the Internet. Most parameters of these new Russian-made carriages are identical to the offer winning the Budapest tender.

In the meanwhile, the Estonian company Skinest Rail, which was the tender’s other participant, has handed in a complaint to the European Commission, claiming that the Budapest public transport company disqualified its offer for eight formal reasons. The winner of the tender was announced as the Russian firm Metrowagonmash on 8 July.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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