Buses in Bucharest

Bucharest public transport in days gone by

by Craig Turp March 4, 2011 Bucharest

 However crowded the next Bucharest bus you happen to get on might be, thank heavens it’s not quite as bad as things were in the 1970s. This propaganda film – which appears with a series of others on the DVD edition of the film Amintiri din Epoca de Aur – is an attempt to blame [...]

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Hands off RATB

by Craig Turp March 9, 2010 Bucharest

 Make a list of good public services in Bucharest. Finished? Thought so. There are not that many public services in Bucharest which approach anything that could even be said to resemble ‘good.’ But there are a few… Rubbish collection is one, at least in our sector (Sector 3). We get our rubbish collected twice a [...]

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