Bucharest Public Transport

Around Bucharest on a tram

by Craig Turp October 14, 2011 Bucharest

 That’s right, it’s Tram Week at Bucharest Life. If you want to see the real Bucharest, sod the tourist bus and get yourself on the No. 1 tram. (Our regular reader, Mrs Trellis of North Wales, may well remember that we have done something similarly daft in the past: our trip on the No. 32 [...]

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Bucharest In Your Pocket: Filling the Metrorex breach

by Craig Turp August 23, 2011 Bucharest

 If you take a look at the website of Metrorex, the company which operates the Bucharest metro, you will see that – not for the first time – they have been playing ‘Fantasy Metros’ again. The map which dominates the homepage (and which is reproduced on the map page) shows the current four lines of [...]

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The Bucharest Metro Challenge: We’ve Been Beaten

by Craig Turp August 3, 2011 Bucharest

 It had to happen. Almost a year after Bucharest Life and Son took the Bucharest Metro Challenge – visiting every station on the Bucharest metro in just under three and a half hours – someone has beaten our time by eight minutes. What’s more, they had to visit two more stations than we did (Jiului [...]

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Bucharest’s orbital tram

by Craig Turp July 20, 2011 Bucharest

 We should go away more often. While we were on holiday earlier this month Bucharest‘s transport authorities decided to make a few changes to the city’s public transport network, all of which are sensible and will be in the interest of the general public. A genuinely shocking development, we know. Of course, nobody knew about [...]

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RATB: Making life just that little bit harder for visitors to Bucharest

by Craig Turp April 29, 2011 Bucharest

 RATB, the operator of surface public transport in Bucharest, is doing away with paper tickets. They will be sold only as long as current stocks last, after which you will need to have either a season ticket or a rechargeable electronic card. This, we imagine, will not make life easy for visitors to Bucharest. Now, [...]

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Why is the prime minister personally opening modestly-sized extensions to airports?

by Craig Turp April 16, 2011 Bucharest

 Given the level of media coverage which greeted the opening of a new extension to Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport last month (all of which was positive) you could be forgiven for thinking that the airport was now a one-stop shop for all sorts, from instant world peace to a cure for cancer. In fact, as we [...]

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Bucharest’s rich can drive cars, the poor can take the bus

by Craig Turp April 2, 2011 Bucharest

 No, that’s not our opinion, instead it’s what we understood from reading this article (part of a series called Five Things Bucharest Should Be Ashamed Of) – written by a chap called Ciprian Ciucu – currently being published over at Contributors, a site dedicated to what can often be decent, well thought through opinion pieces. [...]

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