Public Transport

Mayor of Bucharest Sector 2 to solve city’s traffic problems with… ski lifts

by Craig Turp September 15, 2010 Bucharest

 Did you know you can ski in Bucharest? No, we didn’t think you did. Well, you can: when there’s snow of course and when you are ready to walk up a very short slope in order to ski no more than five seconds downhill before having to walk up again. Bucharest’s ski slope is in [...]

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‘Trebuie sa va informati’; RATB fail

by Craig Turp August 9, 2010 Bucharest

 We’re big fans of RATB (the company that operates Bucharest’s surface-level public transport) here at Bucharest Life. As our regular reader (a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales) will no doubt remember, we have sung their praises and even defended them a number of times. Today though, RATB failed us. Having waited a good 15 minutes [...]

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Where’s that then?

by Craig Turp June 14, 2010 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s taxi drivers have a poor reputation. They are generally thought of as rip-off merchants with a love of manele who don’t have the foggiest idea where it is they are going. In fact, though there are still nasty drivers out there ready to use all sorts of cunning to part the naïve, the foreign [...]

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Dodgy Bucharest taxis (pt. 297)

by Craig Turp April 24, 2010 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s more expensive taxi drivers are apparently coming up with all sorts of new and inventive ways to fool people into thinking that their cars are in fact ordinary, cheap Bucharest taxis. The trick of adopting a logo that looks – at quick glance – much like the logo of an ordinary company is old [...]

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From Otopeni to Gara de Nord by train. We tried. We really tried.

by Craig Turp March 9, 2009 Bucharest

 Back from a week’s self-catering in south-eastern Sudan with little more than an elephant tusk as a souvenir, we arrived at Otopeni at the weekend to be greeted by an enormous blue sign in Romanian and (quelle surprise) correct English telling us that we could purchase train tickets to the city from the booth on [...]

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Tickets, Please

by Craig Turp February 5, 2009 Bucharest

 A pointless poll on the website of the Bucharest transport company, RATB, has unscientifically proven what we already knew: the vast majority of people travelling on trams and buses in the capital do not have tickets. And hands up people, we’ve all done it at least once (at least those of us who travel on [...]

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