The Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK), officially ''Budapesti Közlekedési Központ Zrt.'' (), is the largest public transport company in Budapest and one of the largest in

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. It was founded on January 1, 2011. BKK operates buses (200+ lines, 40 night lines), trams (33 lines), and trolleybuses (15 lines).

History

The last major transport change of

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was the foundation of BKV in the 1960s. The foundation of BKK was decided on October 27, 2010 by the

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. They appointed Dávid Vitézy as CEO. From May 1, 2012 BKK began to do many functions of BKV: * Operating public transportation, planning network, lines and time schedules * Making public service contracts with BKV and other companies * Upgrading transportation and planning ideas for upgrading * Tickets and passes selling and securing

Transportation

Buses

BKK operates over 200 bus lines and 40 night bus lines. The first bus line number is 5. The main bus lines do not have letters in their respective route numbers. Bus lines which always operate in low-floor service: 5, 7, 7G, 8E, 9, 11, 13, 13A, 15, 16, 16A, 16B, 21, 21A, 22, 22A, 25, 26, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 38A, 39, 40, 40B, 40E, 44, 45, 46, 53, 55, 57, 58, 63, 64, 64A, 65, 65A, 66, 66B, 67, 68, 71, 84E, 84M, 87, 88, 88A, 88B, 89E, 91, 92, 92A, 93, 93A, 94E, 94M, 95, 96, 97E, 98, 100E, 101B, 101E, 102, 103, 104, 104A, 105, 106, 108E, 111, 112, 113, 113A, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 124, 125, 126, 126A, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133E, 134, 135, 137, 138, 140, 140A, 140B, 141, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 154B, 155, 156, 157, 157A, 158, 159, 160, 164, 165, 166, 168E, 169E, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 188E, 191, 194, 194B, 194M, 195, 196, 196A, 197, 198, 199, 200E, 204, 212, 213, 214, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223M, 224, 226, 230, 231, 236, 236A, 237, 238, 240, 241A, 243, 250, 250B, 251A, 254M, 257, 260, 262, 264, 266, 270, 272, 277, 278, 279, 279B, 280, 280B, 281, 287, 291, 294E, 294M, 296, 296A, 297, 298. Night lines: 901, 907, 908, 909, 914, 914A, 916, 918, 922, 923, 930, 931, 934, 937, 938, 940, 941, 943, 948, 950, 950A, 956, 960, 963, 964, 966, 968, 972, 972B, 973, 979, 979A, 980, 990, 992, 994, 996, 996A, 998, 999.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Budapesti Kozlekedesi Kozpont Public transport companies in Hungary