At the Budapest Development Center (BFK), on behalf of the government, it started planning the renovation of the Rákospalota – Újpest – Veresegyház – Vác railway line 71, and the complete renovation and modernization of the Rákospalota – Újpest station is part of this investment, Dávid Vitézy said in his Facebook post today. CEO of BFK.

Narrow and outdated platforms (source: Dávid Vizézy / Facebook)

Based on the Budapest Agglomeration Railway Strategy, the future image of the track has been finalized in recent months with the railway designer commissioned by BFK, and two trains will receive the trains in Vác and Veresegyháza in the future.

Subsequently, three architectural firms, Sporaarchitects, RJZS and Paragram, were asked to make conceptual proposals for the new Rákospalota – Újpest station. The plans were agreed yesterday with the 4th and the 15th district chief architects and the professional staff of the Metropolitan local council. They will continue to work on incorporating their opinions and will shortly select directions for further planning.

The concept plan of the RJZS, which envisioned smaller city center, commercial functions in addition to the railway, with a wide-ranging system of connections between the two areas (source: Dávid Vitézy / Facebook)

What is certain is Rákospalota - In Újpest, today's narrow platforms will be replaced by spacious, barrier-free, covered, modern middle platforms. Access to the platforms will be completely unobstructed, and the historic station building will be preserved and renovated. The platforms will shift to the south, they will have a northern exit around today's station building, their southern end will be closer to the overpass on Árpád road, where a pedestrian and bicycle underpass would connect Újpest with Rákospalota. Public areas along the railway will be renovated, new B + R bicycle storages and possibly a P + R car park will be built, although this has not yet been agreed with the local councils.

Sporaarchitects plan with characteristic architectural solutions (source: Vitézy Dávid / Facebook)
  

Dávid Vitézy emphasized that the ideas will be added to the plans prepared by BKK for the northern extension of the M3 metro.

The goal set in the Budapest Agglomeration Railway Strategy is that 8-10 trains depart from Rákospalota - Újpest to  Nyugati every hour following the development of lines 70 and 71. In this way, the railway can play an important role in the transport of Budapest and in the downtown connection system of the parts of the city around the station, he summed up.

Source: Dávid Vitézy / Facebook

Cover photo: Paragram's concept plan with a new southern subway, which can also be connected to the planned station of the M3 metro, and a new bicycle-pedestrian crossing can also be established (source: Vitézy Dávid / Facebook)