BKV Proves Report Is Not Embarrasing by Classifying It

We get it: the BKV doesn't like any of us. You may recall our recent piece on how the new Budapest Public Transport Chief István Kocsis has admitted what everyone's known for a long time already: the BKV is not passenger friendly. But in addition to hiring a new chief, they could also try hiring a PR firm, or at least sit in on a few seminars, which the taxpayers would foot the bill for anyway. The latest ineptly-handled situation involves a showdown between the BKV and the Citizen Unity Budafok 2008 Movement, aka a group of residents in Budapest's District XXII, (their name makes little sense in Hungarian as well). While the BKV has increased coverage for Budafok, the local residents objected to this, preferring buses not run on some of their streets. In their fight against improved services, the local residents demanded that the expert opinion on extending the lines be made public, which prompted the BKV to take the obvious step and make the official document secret for ten years, by which point we're guessing the residents either won't care, or graft will have been made perfectly legal.