BKV Bus Fire Signals the Coming of Spring

Given the age of the BKV's fleet of Ikarus buses, it usually doesn't take too long before a story shows up of some mishap involving the trusty but way-past-their-expiration-date workhorse buses. You might have read of the bendy bus that ripped in two a few months ago at Astoria, pictures of which you can see courtesy of BKV Figyelő. While this new method of early retirement for the buses was a nice change of pace, the traditional method for finally taking a bus out of commission is self-immolation, which is why we were pleased to see via hirszerzo.hu that a 67 bus caught fire at Örs Vezér tere (the picture above is from a different BKV bus fire). Fortunately, no one was injured, but it does mean the annual bus inferno series will be starting early this year if "spring training" has already begun.