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Budapest has been recently "promoted" personally by Lonely Planet's founder, Tony Wheeler.
I'm pretty sure this article will be spread all around abroad... But was it worth for Budapest?
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1. They hire anyone, especially steroid stereotypes. 2. Controllers get commission for fines, means the more people they fine, the more money they make -> No interest on helping tourists at all. 3. The company is 50-50% government and city council owned, and is the second biggest employer in the country -> No one knows what's going on. (the railways is no.1 which is even more inefficient). They have billions of losses every year due the inefficiency and scandals every year. And it goes on and on...
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Same here. They still don´t behave like crooks though.
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if you wanna know more about the budapestian (?) subway system, check out this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373981/
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The last time I was in Budapest my girlfriend and I were having trouble with the machine and did not know what ticket to buy. So we bought the most expensive one just to be safe. We transfered once before we arrived at are final stop, when we got off the trian and we were checked. I guess we had the wrong ticket and you needed to buy your ticket at the ticket office if you need a "transfer ticket". We told them that the office was not even open, they could care less. So I played the old "oh this is all the cash I have my bank card is all the way back at the hostel" game. We got a fine for only one of us. The cash went into his pocket with no recite.....of course.
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