As of this Monday afternoon, underground trains again run between the two terminals on the Hungarian capital’s M3 metro line as the renovation of all but two stations have been completed. Over three quarters of the renovation costs have been covered by EU funding.
Some 3,500 people have worked for the past five and half years on the modernization of Budapest’s longest underground line on which passengers can now travel from Újpest in the north to Kőbánya-Kispest in the south.
Trains do not stop at the Lehel tér and Nagyvárad tér stations where renovation work is expected to be completed this May.
HUF 172.7 billion forints of the renovation costs of the of 20-stations underground line is paid by the European Union, with HUF 44.8 billion forints co-financed by Hungary and HUF 7.1 billion forints contributed by the Municipality of Budapest.
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