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The Urban and Suburban Transit Association (VEKE) (, aimed at developing city transport in Hungary .


ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

VEKE's headquarters are located in Budapest . Besides this main organization there exists an affiliated ''VEKE Érd - Diósd '' organization. VEKE can only lobby in the cities where they have affiliated organization. VEKE organizations are open for co-operation with the city governments, but they will always maintain their political neutrality and will always do their work on a non-profit basis.


WORKGROUPS

The members of VEKE participate in one of the two following workgroups:
  • The Transport-developer workgroup does research on city transport and recommendates means for improving the city's urban and suburban transport.

  • The Transportoperation-history workgroup does historical research on the past of urban and suburban transport. They make commemorations, informative campaigns, and want to create a nostalgic depot in the future. In 2004 and 2005 they made a nostalgic bus tour.



VEKE'S RESULTS SO FAR



VEKE presented some serious plans for further improvement of Budapest's city transport. Maybe the most important is the proposed uniting of the Gödöllő HÉV line and metro line 2. The city government did not totally agree with the plan (because of lack of money and because they think the present system is still working fine), but it still may be built after 2015.

Other plans include the extension of The Cog Railway Of Budapest to Moszkva Tér and Normafa and the rebuilding of the tram lines between Thököly road and the Small Boulevard .


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