During the past few months, the Kossuth Lajos Square station of Budapest’s M2 metro line was closed for traffic, as the building where this stop is located was being demolished. The construction works started in December, and during this time period the city’s BKK public-transport company launched temporary bus and ferry services to take passengers between Pest’s Deák Ferenc Square and Batthyány Square on the Buda side. However, the Kossuth Lajos Square station is now open again for passengers since Sunday, and the M2 metro now serves all of the stations along its line.

In the past few months, many people who wanted to approach Budapest’s Parliament House had to slightly alter their route, as the M2 metro didn’t serve Kossuth Lajos Square, where the neo-Gothic government building is located. To provide passengers with transportation alternatives during this time period, BKK launched the M2A temporary bus service between Deák Ferenc Square and Kossuth Lajos Square, while the D2 ferryboat provided short panoramic voyages for travelers on the Danube, plying the river back and forth between Pest’s Kossuth Lajos Square and Buda’s Batthyány Square.

However, with the completion of the construction works that required the Kossuth Square station to close, as of May 14th, the M2 metro stops again at all of the stations along its line, while the M2A and D2 replacement services are no longer operating. This doesn’t affect the schedule of the D11 and D12 ferryboats that zigzag up and down between several stops in both Buda and Pest, including between Kossuth Square and Batthyány Square.