- The driver of a BKV bus #22 forgot to engage the handbrake while parking yesterday morning at Moszkva tér. The bus careened into two cars, sending a child who was a passenger in one of them to the hospital with minor injuries. [stop.hu]
- The little BKV kiosks that sell tickets at many larger metro stations and bus stops frequently sell bogus passes, or single tickets that are actually group tickets that can’t be sold separately. So if you were wondering why people wait in line for the honor of being grimaced at by the old biddies behind the smudgy glass at the ticket counter, now you know. [bkvfigyelo.blog.hu]
- Sometime on Monday night, a group of “around 10″ passengers celebrating the birthday of one of their party boarded a public bus in the burned-out former industrial center of Ózd. When the driver asked if they wanted to buy tickets, they angrily declined, and refused to get off the bus. The driver then closed the doors and drove off to the city’s police station, where at least one of the rowdy passengers was taking in by the cops. [index.hu]
- A BKV bus drivers said that some of his colleagues who moonlight at other bus companies are so tired they are driven to do things like mess with the buses’ electrical gear to make sure the bus doesn’t work and they can get some rest. [bkvfigyelo.blog.hu]
Things Not to Think About on the Bus Home Today
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I totally approve of #3. I’d love to see more BKV drivers taking a proactive approach to dealing with drunken passengers. OK, on night-buses you kind of expect them, but otherwise yes – cart them off to the copshop.
As for #1, inspectors never check passes properly, so it probably doesn’t matter if the ones they provide are “bogus”. You could even make your own at home if you were that way inclined. I was using my March pass well into May and no inspector batted an eyelid