There are 152 elderly persons for every 100 youths in the Hungarian capital, and 23% of households live in retirement, according to the annual publication of the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Budapest data, reports Népszava.

Imre Mártha, chairman of the supervisory board of Budapest’s Metropolitan Public Area Maintenance Company (FKF Nonprofit Zrt.) has told Infostart that the situation with the garbage collection in Budapest is tense, because FKF has not received the full amount for its services. 

The Budapest Public Transport Company (BKV) on Thursday said it will recoup damages caused by faulty renovated carriages earlier delivered by Russiaʼs Metrowagonmash, state news wire MTI reports.

Hungarian railway operator MÁV has launched a public procurement for the complete and complex reconstruction of the Kőbánya-Kispest railway station building and the design of a new accessible pedestrian overpass, according to portfolio.hu. 

Last year, BKV raised wages less than it should have, so employees now want a 15% increase, Gábor Naszályi, president of the Unified Transport Trade Union (EEU), told RTL Klub. Employees are still working on this year’s wage agreement, although they had already been urged in November to start wage negotiations. 

The Center for Budapest Transport (BKK) announced that vehicles over five tonnes will be banned from crossing the Chain Bridge, starting tomorrow, according to a statement on BKK.hu.

A VR Theme Park opened in Budapest, opposite the Nyugati train station, on a designated area of 2,000 sqm, offering a new form of entertainment in Hungary, where visitors can become explorers, action heroes or even one of their favorite characters, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal.

A feasibility study on the renovation of the expressway connecting the main parts of Budapest to Ferenc Liszt International Airport is expected to be finished early 2020 and the project itself could be wound up around 2024, Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Ministerʼs Office, said at a regular press briefing, state news wire MTI reports.

According to a Euromonitor survey, the Hungarian capital received 3.8 million foreign visitors in 2018, a figure expected to rise to more than four million this year, which makes for a 5% increase in tourist traffic, the same amount as the year prior.

The Budapest Public Transport Company (BKV) on Thursday said it signed a contract worth net HUF 90.9 billion with the local unit of Austrian civil engineering company Swietelsky on the reconstruction of the middle section of the M3 underground line, state news wire MTI reports.

Following Viennaʼs example, the Management of Shopping and Thematic Streets (BUM) announced the intention to create 11 smart streets in Budapest, in order to boost street shopping, eliminate empty storefronts, and tighten cooperation between entrepreneurs, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal.

The World Science Forum (WSF), organized jointly by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) and the most influential international scientific organizations, will be held in Budapest next week.

Budapest has been ranked second by Lonely Planet on a list focusing on the best value destinations around the globe, according to the publicationʼs website.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will open a contact office in Hungary under an agreement signed by Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics and EASA managing director Patrick Ky, state news wire MTI reports.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán pressed the new municipal council of Budapest to take decisions on state-funded investments in the capital as soon as possible in his regular interview on public radio on Friday, as reported by state news agency MTI.

Online travel publication Flightnetwork.com has published a list of the "World’s 50 Most Beautiful Cities," chosen by 1,000 of the world’s top travel professionals, with Budapest ranking at 16th. 

World Animal Day, held annually on October 4 (the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi) will be celebrated this weekend at Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden with its "Animal Love Festival". 

Ambulance response times in Budapest sometimes near one hour, napi.hu reports, citing a video published by Zsombor Kunetz, a first responder. 

Oil and gas company MOL is in talks with Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) on repurposing its main offices for the universityʼs use after it moves to its new headquarters under construction in the south of the capital, Chairman-CEO Zsolt Hernádi said on Wednesday, state news wire MTI reported.

A spirited conversation between former French President Nicholas Sarkozy and former Spanish PM José María Aznar was the highlight of a day-long conference in Budapest dedicated to spreading the word about Hungaryʼs economic successes to international investors.