Budapest's public transport is quite colour coordinated: trolleybuses are red, trams are yellow and buses blue. The metro has three lines, you guessed, red, yellow and blue. These used to be the colours of the city's historic flag, which was oh-so-wisely replaced by the buffoons running the mayor's office these days. A city's traditions suddenly pale in comparison with the fact that the above mentioned colours are usurped by an "enemy country's" flag. That sounds weird to me, because it means I should be my own enemy...but nevermind, trams are mercifully still yellow, the 47 in the background is hurrying past flowers on Deak Tér taking it's passengers over the Danube all the way to Budafok. When I arrived to Budapest the line was still served by the iconic UV trams (http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_villamos), which used to be the most popular type of tram in Budapest after WWII, these days it has been replaced by a newer type- a tad less noisy, but still as funky smelling as ever.
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