RATB

Bucharest Gets Double Decker Tourist Buses

by Craig Turp July 27, 2011 Bucharest

 After the launch of the night buses earlier this month, we wondered if Bucharest’s public transport operator RATB could become even more proactive… Well, today we got our answer. As of Monday, August 1st, Bucharest will get its first double decker buses. And not just any double decker buses either. Oh no. These are special [...]

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Postcards from Bucharest

by Craig Turp May 12, 2011 Bucharest

 Wow. You’ve got to love RATB (except of course when they are making life difficult for visitors to Bucharest). Who knew that their marketing department had started producing souvenir packs of sepia postcards featuring Bucharest public transport in years gone by? (In fact, who knew that RATB had a marketing department?) We came across them [...]

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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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Is there a prize for being first off a Bucharest bus?

by Craig Turp January 15, 2011 Bucharest

 Don’t take this post the wrong way, for we love Bucharest’s public transport system, really we do. Once again this winter RATB (which operates surface public transport) has proven to be one of the city’s few institutions that can genuinely be relied upon to come up with the goods and keep the city moving when [...]

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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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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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Bucharest Life 2009

by Craig Turp January 4, 2010 Bucharest

 A week or so late, here is Bucharest Life’s Review of the Year that was 2009. January A new government, led by Traian Basescu and Little Emil Boc, installed following parliamentary elections at the end of 2008, introduces, amongst other moves of sheer political genius, a compulsory profit tax for small companies (even those that [...]

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