Budapest gets fourth metro line, two years late

(MENAFN- AFP) Two years late, Budapest's UNESCO World Heritage Site underground transit system finally got a fourth line Friday after an eight-year construction period marked by rows between Hungary's warring political parties.Budapest's right-wing mayor Istvan Tarlos refused to invite his left-liberal predecessor Gabor Demszky to the opening, also attended by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, despite the project starting life under Demszky.Tarlos, a member of Orban's Fidesz party, told the Magyar Nemzet newspaper in February that the project was "fundamentally an unwise investment" and that contracts signed by Demszky "caused many problems". Demszky meanwhile has blamed Tarlos and Orban's government, which took power in 2010 and which is tipped to win another term in elections on April 6, for delaying the project.