Price Increase Soon for Budapest Public Transport Tickets - Mayor Reveals Details

  • 24 Jul 2023 10:09 AM
  • Hungary Matters
Price Increase Soon for Budapest Public Transport Tickets - Mayor Reveals Details
Single tickets for Budapest public transport will increase to 450 forints (EUR 1.2) from September, the mayor of Budapest said on Friday. The price of the single ticket will go up from 350 forints.

Gergely Karácsony said that tickets bought on the spot would cost 600 forints, blocks of ten tickets 4,000 forints but the price of monthly passes will remain unchanged.

“We must increase the price of Budapest public transport tickets so that the price of monthly passes need not be changed and the city’s public transport is secured”, he said.

The price of single tickets has been unchanged for ten years while railways MÁV, long-distance bus company Volán and several other cities increased their prices in recent months.

“We in Budapest had no other choice either,” he said. Compared with other Hungarian cities, Budapest public transport single tickets are among the cheapest, and the current rate of increase is the “unavoidable minimum”, he said.

Budapest transport company BKK said the increase was necessary as a result of economic trends in recent years, a drastic increase in energy prices and inflation in general.

Photo: courtesy of BKK

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