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    Warsaw might be famous for its good trams, but with a solid metro, S-Trains, and even good active transport infrastructure, it should probably just be seen as a model good mobility city. Let’s take a deeper look!

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    24 Comments

    1. Sean Gurevich on

      Looks really nice!
      I am actually visiting Warsaw in two months and also Krakow, I wonder what is the public transportation situation there.
      I would probably end up riding the whole 2 lines of the Warsaw metro, walk around some soviet-style neighborhoods to learn about walkability and design…. And also if there's a transportation museum, that would be lovely!

    2. Futaba Majima on

      Also very much worth noting is the fact that apart from the oldest trams and some rail stations not directly managed by the city, Warsaw's transport is very accessible, every metro station is step free directly from street level onto the platform, often with multiple lifts also from the fare gate level

    3. Radek Lang on

      hello reece. i think you should look on public transport in brno (czech republic). brno is not a big city (2nd largest in czech republic) with its 400 000 inhabitants but it has over 70km of tracks and 11 tram lines that strech over the whole city. the tram system is made to connect all city parts to the city centre where there are the main transit transfer stations. also trams in brno are going every 4-6 minutes in peak periods.😉

    4. Jan on

      Watching this as Pole and Kraków citizen (second largest city in Poland and thrid largest urban area) is amazing. I'm quite proud that someone outside my country enjoys public transport of Warsaw. I can tell you today that plans with new metro lines in Warsaw are controversial because Warsaw authorities wants to build first M3 line instead of M4 and M5 lines which are more needed. M3 will be the shortest line in service and it will also have the smallest ridership comparing to every other planned line.
      I believe that one day we will have heavy metro in Krakówa and suburban/regional rail service SKA will have better frequencies.

    5. Whitfield Palmer on

      I live in Warsaw and it’s truly a really great place to live. But hush. I don’t want it to be overfilled with awful British and Americans talking too loud with vocal fry.

    9. Arthur Korn on

      My mind goes to Warsaw every time you discuss excessive metro building costs as a model of efficiency. From what I've seen the system is really shallow and has been built cut and cover. This is in no small part enabled by the sheer width of major roads in the city, a result of the utter destruction in WWII and car oriented redevelopment. This makes Warsaw look very American in my view, but with trams everywhere! Yay!

    10. mochi on

      7:13 i absolutely LOVE the 1980s design of alstom metropolis
      7:24 there were problems with skoda trains at first, but as far as i know they're pretty reliable right now

    11. Jack on

      I really like your stuff Reece. But I especially like the approach of looking at cities rather than systems. Hope we see more like this.

    12. Arbaux on

      I saw some people talking about transporting old soviet metro trains to Kiev, but they've also transported some of the Polish 105 trams to Ukraine. they want to discontinue the service of high-floor trams when all Hyundai trams will arrive in Warsaw

    17. TD B on

      I had a look at how many trams Melbourne has, and it has 493 trams (double Toronto, but 2/3 the size of Warsaw). Excellent for an English-speaking city but not as great as Central Europe. Thanks for the video Reece – Warsaw is a fascinating city.

    19. Veli Mapping on

      7:47 You can also get in a tram to get to this both 🙂
      Also – a fun fact – when 2050 will hit, we are supposed not to have only 2, but 5 lines and over 100 stations.
      Also you could have checked and said something about WKD line later – It's a light train and something between a tram and a train!

    20. ryhor on

      Public transportation in Warsaw is not perfect but we cannot complain much. Besides metro and trams we have an extensive network of bus lines so practically any part of the city can be reached by bus, metro or tram. The frequencies are ok. E.g. my closest bus stop (not in city center) is served by 2 lines with frequencies of 15 min each (Mo-Fr) and 20 min on weekends.

    22. mw on

      Overall a great video, but I’d like to add that on the core tunnel and the circumferencial mainline you can use both the SKM trains and the Masovian Railway trains (the latter only with a 24h or more ticket), which makes waiting times shorter on the routes inside the city. Secondly the WKD system wasn’t mentioned. It is very interesting, because it occupies a spot somewhere between light rail and mainline.

    23. Boiling Water on the Stove on

      A lot of Americans use the argument of "But the USA is not as dense as Europe and the USA is bigger than almost all European countries so we cannot have public transport!!!!"

      Alright sure, but then explain why cities like Seattle or Denver barely have any public transport compared to the same sized European city? If we take Warsaw and Denver for example. The argument that the USA is less densely populated than Europe doesn't work here as we're talking about the city of Denver. How come Denver is trash when it comes to public transport? It's a lame excuse to justify the lack of public transport within cities.

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