934 result(s) for budapest metro
Opposition Parties In Budapest Express Concerns Over Metro
- 8 Dec 2016 10:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition parties in Budapest expressed concerns about safety on the capital’s metro lines. On Wednesday morning services on the third metro were disrupted due to a malfunction and on Monday an accident on the second line resulted in several serious injuries.
Police Raid BKV Offices After Crash
- 8 Dec 2016 9:14 AM
- current affairs
Police have taken control of the investigation into Monday’s M2 metro accident after searching the offices of public transport company BKV on Tuesday morning.
Metro M2 Will Not Serve Kossuth Tér For 3 Months
- 8 Dec 2016 7:11 AM
- getting around
For a period of about three months from the start of this December, metro line M2 will not serve the Kossuth Lajos tér M in either direction, due to the demolition of the MTESZ building. From Deák Ferenc tér, Kossuth Lajos tér can be reached by replacement bus M2A. Additionally, BKK provides a new shuttle-boat service, line D2 between Batthyány tér and Kossuth Lajos tér.
Festival Of Nine Lessons & Carols, 16 December
- 8 Dec 2016 6:45 AM
- community & culture
The Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols was popularized at King’s College, Cambridge, by the then Dean Eric Milner-White in the early part of the twentieth century. The music at the very first service in Cambridge in 1918 was directed by Arthur Henry Mann. The service was first broadcast by the BBC in 1928. The format of those early services did not differ substantially from that familiar to us ...
Ten Injured In Budapest Metro Train Collision
- 6 Dec 2016 5:41 AM
- getting around
Two metro trains collided on Budapest’s M2 line early on Monday, injuring ten people, Máté Kisdi, a spokesman for Budapest’s disaster management authority said. The accident happened after one train travelling in the direction of Déli railway station caught up with and ran into the back of another. Both trains were carrying passengers.
Kaija Saariaho’s Opera Love From Afar On A Movie Screen, Urania, 10 December
- 2 Dec 2016 7:00 AM
- community & culture
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera Love from Afar (L’amour de loin) will have its Metropolitan Opera premiere in New York in December. The opera will soon afterwards be seen at Urania National Movie Theatre in Budapest. Love from Afar originally premiered at Salzburg Festival in 2000. It is one of the most acclaimed operas of the 2000s and it has won a Grammy for Best Opera ...
Budapest ‘Surprised’ By Erzsébet Square Transfer To State
- 2 Dec 2016 6:00 AM
- getting around
The Budapest metropolitan council on Thursday expressed its “surprise” that ownership of central Budapest’s Erzsébet Square has been transferred to the state. Parliament approved a law on transferring some councilowned property into the ownership of the state, and this includes the transfer of Erzsébet Square, the council said in a statement on Thursday, insisting it had not been consulted prior ...
BKV Withdraws Metro Line Renovation Tender
- 29 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- getting around
Budapest public transport company BKV has withdrawn a tender for the renovation of the capital’s third metro, the latest issue of the Public Procurement Gazette shows. Mayor István Tarlós said ten days earlier that the city’s public procurement manager had recommended invalidating the tender because all of the bids were well over the projected budget. It also proposed launching a new procurement ...
Boat Replaces Kossuth Tér Metro
- 28 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- getting around
A boat will ferry public transport passengers between Batthyány tér in Buda and Kossuth tér in Pest from December 3, when the Kossuth tér metro station will be closed, the Budapest Transport Centre BKK announced.
Opposition Parties In Budapest Express Concerns Over Metro
- 8 Dec 2016 10:00 AM
- current affairs
Opposition parties in Budapest expressed concerns about safety on the capital’s metro lines. On Wednesday morning services on the third metro were disrupted due to a malfunction and on Monday an accident on the second line resulted in several serious injuries.
Police Raid BKV Offices After Crash
- 8 Dec 2016 9:14 AM
- current affairs
Police have taken control of the investigation into Monday’s M2 metro accident after searching the offices of public transport company BKV on Tuesday morning.
Metro M2 Will Not Serve Kossuth Tér For 3 Months
- 8 Dec 2016 7:11 AM
- getting around
For a period of about three months from the start of this December, metro line M2 will not serve the Kossuth Lajos tér M in either direction, due to the demolition of the MTESZ building. From Deák Ferenc tér, Kossuth Lajos tér can be reached by replacement bus M2A. Additionally, BKK provides a new shuttle-boat service, line D2 between Batthyány tér and Kossuth Lajos tér.
Festival Of Nine Lessons & Carols, 16 December
- 8 Dec 2016 6:45 AM
- community & culture
The Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols was popularized at King’s College, Cambridge, by the then Dean Eric Milner-White in the early part of the twentieth century. The music at the very first service in Cambridge in 1918 was directed by Arthur Henry Mann. The service was first broadcast by the BBC in 1928. The format of those early services did not differ substantially from that familiar to us ...
Ten Injured In Budapest Metro Train Collision
- 6 Dec 2016 5:41 AM
- getting around
Two metro trains collided on Budapest’s M2 line early on Monday, injuring ten people, Máté Kisdi, a spokesman for Budapest’s disaster management authority said. The accident happened after one train travelling in the direction of Déli railway station caught up with and ran into the back of another. Both trains were carrying passengers.
Kaija Saariaho’s Opera Love From Afar On A Movie Screen, Urania, 10 December
- 2 Dec 2016 7:00 AM
- community & culture
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s breakthrough opera Love from Afar (L’amour de loin) will have its Metropolitan Opera premiere in New York in December. The opera will soon afterwards be seen at Urania National Movie Theatre in Budapest. Love from Afar originally premiered at Salzburg Festival in 2000. It is one of the most acclaimed operas of the 2000s and it has won a Grammy for Best Opera ...
Budapest ‘Surprised’ By Erzsébet Square Transfer To State
- 2 Dec 2016 6:00 AM
- getting around
The Budapest metropolitan council on Thursday expressed its “surprise” that ownership of central Budapest’s Erzsébet Square has been transferred to the state. Parliament approved a law on transferring some councilowned property into the ownership of the state, and this includes the transfer of Erzsébet Square, the council said in a statement on Thursday, insisting it had not been consulted prior ...
BKV Withdraws Metro Line Renovation Tender
- 29 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- getting around
Budapest public transport company BKV has withdrawn a tender for the renovation of the capital’s third metro, the latest issue of the Public Procurement Gazette shows. Mayor István Tarlós said ten days earlier that the city’s public procurement manager had recommended invalidating the tender because all of the bids were well over the projected budget. It also proposed launching a new procurement ...
Boat Replaces Kossuth Tér Metro
- 28 Nov 2016 8:00 AM
- getting around
A boat will ferry public transport passengers between Batthyány tér in Buda and Kossuth tér in Pest from December 3, when the Kossuth tér metro station will be closed, the Budapest Transport Centre BKK announced.