Várnagy Zoltán: Urban Transportation - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

The Szentendre—Visegrád büs of the Hév (suburban) railways

move more slowly than trams, even in the bus lanes specifically designated for them, and yet the former have in many places gained the ascendancy over the latter because of their relative cheapness. The cost of purchasing a bus is one fifth of buying a tram, and the use of streets is free, while tram tracks are maintained by the transport company. As recently as 1968, the tram system, whose vehicles were more widely used by the public than anything else available, was the backbone of the capital’s public transport services, but this

Environmentally sound bus-Model IK 415

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