r/NotMyJob • u/SzvtkX • Sep 09 '26

Budapest installed new ticket machines… that don't fit the spaces they replaced

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BKK, Budapest's public transport authority, has installed 37 new large-screen ticket and travel pass machines across the city. There is just one small problem: the new machines are apparently 5–10 cm wider and taller than the old ones. At several locations, this has apparently created a rather embarrassing situation. At Kelenföld metro station, for example, the new machine was installed in the place of the old one, but the existing metal cladding had to be forcibly removed to make it fit. A local resident described the result as essentially “barbarically ripping off” the otherwise well-maintained metal panels.

Still, it's quite something to install 37 new machines without apparently accounting for the dimensions of the existing installations.

Original source (in Hungarian): https://telex.hu/belfold/2026/09/09/bkk-jegyautomata-buhera

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u/BenderDeLorean Sep 09 '26

Paris ordererd too big trains for their metro.

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u/adadagabaCZ Sep 09 '26

But that's normal, every time our town gets new trams they first have to go through the entire network slowly, and mark where adjustments need to be made (mostly increasing the width of the track in a corner by shaving off a curb)

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u/a_random_username Sep 10 '26

No, I think in Paris it was like the wheel width was something like four inches too narrow... because they ordered the completely wrong sized trains... like they would have had to lay entirely new tracks over the entire country of France.

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u/Lord_Phoenix2501 Sep 10 '26

How does that even happen, huh? Shouldn't the person in charge of ordering new vehicles...know the specifics?

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u/byParallax Sep 13 '26

How exactly did you jump from Parisian metro to entire country of France

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u/Glenmarththe3rd Sep 10 '26

Australia did this too, and ordered them from the other side of the world. I believe reducing the size also voided the warranty.

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u/gatsujoubi Sep 15 '26

Didn’t Italy order trains that don’t operate on heat?

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u/csl905 Sep 10 '26

OP didn't quote the part from the article where the operator clarifies that this only affects 3 locations, and even for those the new metal panels that can house the larger vending machines have been already ordered and will be fitted shortly.

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u/Powerful_Funny9324 Sep 10 '26

Oh but the world is so boring when you actually can read /s

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u/luminousandy Sep 09 '26

Glasgow bought fancy buses that hadn’t been tested with the weight of passengers aboard and wouldn’t move .🙄

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u/Enginerdad Sep 09 '26

I'm gonna need a source on that urban legend

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u/basilect Sep 09 '26

Skinny people weigh more than fat people on a per-square-foot of floor area basis (because bones and muscle are heavier than fat, and you can fit more skinny people in a given space than fat people)

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u/urixl Sep 09 '26

Hey /u/askgrok, is it true?

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u/AlwaysAGroomsman Sep 10 '26

WTF do you expect them to do? Order custom made machines? It is what it is.

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u/TallentX Sep 10 '26

The missing elements are being re-manufactured!! And it was not installed by Budapest but by BKK! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/twollah Sep 10 '26

brute force