Thanks for the amazing response to this video 🤩 so many new subscribers & really thoughtful, detailed comments from locals adding extra interesting information about the stations & areas, love it 🚇♥️🇵🇱 For everyone else watching from outside Poland, let me know where in the world 🌍 you’re watching from 📍🤓
You missed a very interesting spot in Płocka Station. There are bones of straight- tusked elephant exposed in the floor. 100 thousand years ago there was a huge lake and the creature probably drowned in it. The bones were found during the construction of the station.
Tell your president to give more money for promote the city, not eco terrorists who block the roads. I've never heard about that thing, about this place what was before, etc. Thanks for sharing this information. Good to know.
It's actually really great that the most use stations are so boldly colored. When it's your daily commute you can just zone out and get out when you see the color coming once you learn all the stations assigned shades
@@Polifromia yeh, that does make a lot of sense…much easier to miss your stop when they all look similar. I used to live near Oriente Station in Lisbon 🇵🇹 but luckily, at the time it was the end station so I never had that problem 😝
The station where you said that you have the whole station to yourself is actually the least used station in the whole system. It's called "Zacisze" (Quiet place) and is literally smacked in the middle of single family housing neighborhood with a single bus line connecting to it. Once I went there just to see how quiet empty it is there and honestly I was a bit shocked.
@@mewosh_ I honestly wish I’d gone outside at Zacisze now to see that for myself! 👻 I think I’d just looked at my phone maps and been like “not gonna be much of interest outside here” ☠️ but sometimes absolutely nothing is kind of a vibe 🤣
Ostatnio jak byłem w Warszawie, to wysiadłem na zaciszu. Niesamowite miejsce to tak jak by jednym przystankiem metra przenieść się z wielkiego molocha, największego miasta w Polsce do małego miasta spokojnego miasteczka
7:10 Yes, the blue color refers to the nearby swimming pool. However, the concept of the station's neon logo itself is a reference to its name and the surrounding area. "Młyn" = mill. The logo features circles like mill wheels because there used to be mills here. Furthermore, in the case of the "Płocka" station neon, the logo design is a reference to the nearby former radio factories, and the logo clearly includes pathways resembling those on a printed circuit board.
@@franekgruca9905 Love all this info 🤓 thanks! The mill thing & circles makes total sense now 😎 it so clever how they’ve woven those features in 🤩 definitely two of my fave stations on the line 🚇…kinda wish the company that designed these had done the entire line 😋
@@n1ckburt0n This speech above is a joke. Swiętokrzyska (Holy Cross) station comes from name of the street. And name of the street comes from Holy Cross Church in the neighborhood officially. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Church,_Warsaw The commentator says it is also the patron saint of M2 travelers. What he means is a dash of cocaine ("kryska" from "kreska" in Polish, kreska spelling is similar to "kryz"=cross, and now Swiętokrzyska is a "saint dash") and corporate employees in those big office buildings.
From my experience living in Warsaw it is often that the hellish wide suburban arterials have the best cycling and walking paths just because there's so much space to put them.
@@mewosh_ haha 🤣 tbf that does make sense 🚘 I was surprised just how walkable the city was generally though, and with logical routes for cycling too. The example I gave in the video about Seoul 🇰🇷 I literally ended up walking on the hard shoulder of the actual motorway at like 2am cos there was no obvious path through ☠️🤣
Great video! The reason why some stations look so different from each other is that they used to just go from "Rondo Daszyńskiego" to "Dworzec Wileński," and the rest was built very recently, about one or two years ago, so it was a completely different idea and time. The strong neons on the stations near the city center were once perfectly fitting with the trends and style popular back when they were first built (2015). I hope this helps!
@@1tsCl0udi3s Thanks very much! 🤩 Yes, that makes a lot of sense 😎 my favourite stations are the one just to the west of the city centre with the neon etc. so freakin’ cool 🙌🏼
@thatdudethatcommentsstuff Very good idea 😎 I was actually thinking about tram adventures when I visited places like Krakow & Tallinn that don’t have a metro system 🚇 definitely something I’d like to do 🤩
I love the Warsaw metro! This is a great video :) M1 is my daily commute, but it's always a pleasure to take M2, it's beautiful. I'm yet to ride it end to end and explore alongside the stations, I'll do that in the spring 😊
@@BodyAndSol96 Thank you so much 😎 really appreciate the positive feedback 🤩 I reckon spring will be the perfect time to explore M2 end to end, enjoy! 🚇🥳
@@katharina... Aww 🥰 thanks so much! To be honest, I have quite a few Polish 🇵🇱 friends and I was like 😅 💭‘I have to try and get this right cos if they happen to see this they’ll be like’…”you went to our country and butchered the language! 😐”🤣🤪
@@katharina... Lmfao 🤣 I just had to scroll to see what I said there 😝 it was meant to be “cycle paths” 🚲 but it definitely did sound like “psychopaths” 😅😆 I’m blaming my sore throat that day 🤒
@@n1ckburt0n Ha ha, yeah naah it was very clear what you meant 👍 And now you're trying to wriggle out of it 😜 My ears are also planning an early retirement, so it could be that as well 😁
@Thurden_mixd Only “almost nails it” 😭…52 people liked the comment saying I said it perfectly lol…Google translate is gonna be so mad 😠 lol yeh looks as though Świętokrzyska wasn’t great on this one 😭 it is a bit tricky trying to smoothly narrate in English then randomly say a difficult foreign word though 😝🤪
5:39 It is worth mentioning that there is a large bazaar every Sunday. Mainly cheap food, cheap clothes, but you can find unique items 10:00 The walls on the platform of the central section of the metro were designed by Wojciech Fangor. He is one of those artists, when you look at his paintings you wonder how it is that it costs millions.
@@maciejz7892 The bazaar sounds awesome 🤩 who doesn’t love cheap food and unique items! 😎 I just googled his paintings and I’ve got to agree with you 😝💰 I think the bold colours are fun on the metro walls in the central section but for overall station designs I preferred the ones on the western part of the line 🚇
You've done so well with the pronunciations!! It sounds very cute.😊 I know our language is definitely not an easy one to speak unfortunately. Very interesting clip, and 😂 at the Cruella De Ville bathroom chic comment at 7:00 you're getting an extra subscriber for the sense of humour, and for showing public transport videos. 👋🏻 from Edinburgh!
@@wolfsberg88 I smiled all the way through reading this comment 😃 thanks so much! I think the more videos I produce, the more I’m like “I’m just gonna unleash the humour/randomness and see what happens” 🤪🤣 Lucky you living in Edinburgh 🏴 such a fab city!
@@n1ckburt0n you're very welcome 😊 And that's the way to do it. Randomness and UK sense of humour are always appreciated 😉 Just on my way to work, watching the other Warsaw clip and enjoying that too 😁 Aye Edinburgh's decent, hope we'll get more 🚋 here! If you're ever in PL again, I'd recommend my hometown Poznań, in the West - nice city for a weekend! Ps. I'm bad with accents - are you from Manchester?
@@wolfsberg88 Thanks a lot! 😎 yeh I’m just gonna unleash the randomness and humour on every video from now where I can 🤪🤣 Actually Poznań has been on my list for a while now (almost booked it for Xmas markets this year) & I have a friend who lives close to there 🇵🇱 maybe a tram adventure around there 👀🚃 I’m from Middlesbrough 📍🌎 yeh UK accents are very hard to pinpoint & I’ve also worked abroad a lot so I don’t know if that’s altered it a bit 🥸
the ceiling panels at płocka are actually meant to be milky white, the dark spots are a dust buildup. The design didnt consider that and they're really hard to clean so the transport authority only does that once in a while when the light level gets too low
Oops 😝 bit of a planning fail there then…great fact though, thanks 🤩 I do think Płocka station has one of the most interesting overall designs on the line though! 😎
4:57 Here you are walking alongsite a bicycle only road... which you shouldn't do, watch out for the blue circularif sings with a white a bicycle and for white bicycles painted on the ground. There are also blue circular sings showing which side of a path is for bicycles and which is for pedestrains, if pedestrains are above a bicycle, then it's shared.
Stadion, CN Kopernik, Płocka and Młynów are my favourites. Still cycling is my favourite mode of transportation in Warsaw. Great to see how this city is changing and developing.
@@candelas31 Yeh I loved Płocka & Młynów too! I’d say probably those two & Księcia Janusza are my top 3 cos they’re all just so unique and quirky! 🎨😎 I was honestly a bit jealous of the cyclists 🚴 it looked to be a great way of getting around efficiently!
@@n1ckburt0nyeah, the Warsaw cyclist infrastructure has developed tremendously for the past decade! And for the 9 months in year you can actually rent one of few thousands metrobikes (Veturilo) on the stations all around the city, which first 20 minutes are free of charge - default mode of transportation for many of us on such short distances :D
@@n1ckburt0n Rather then a ghost town, you would see like single house neighborhood akin to Londons boroughs, It's an amazing contrast to the Kondratowicza with massive high rise apartment buildings.
@@felisenpai9625 probably would’ve been an interesting contrast between the two places though 😎 I’ll probably feature some London tube adventures on the channel at some point, but quite honestly, might end up getting my phone snatched there at the moment! 📱😱
M2 was built in segments, you can clearly distingush the segemnts by common styles. Original path was Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński then Płocka-Księcia Janusza segment was added followed by Szwedzka-Trocka, Ulrychów-Bemowo and finally Zacisze-Bródno
@@MaciejowPL Oh completely yeh 🥸 & I think that’s a great quirk of the line 🚇 my fave is definitely the Płocka-Księcia Janusza segment…so unique and memorable! 🤩 Wonder what style they’ll go for in the new stations that they’re adding to the line 🤔😀
@n1ckburt0n West went little into light steampunk/industrialpunk. I hope they continue it which is possible as plans show it going into Włochy district which is home to Chopin Airport and by the looks of it President of Warsaw is into that as the foot/bicycle bridge shows
wonderful video!! the reason why we don't say the colours of the lines in polish is probably because our colour names have a lot of syllables for example 'red line' would be 'czerwona linia', and thats an unwieldy 5 syllables! the same case with 'blue line' ('niebieska linia')
@bunjection Thanks so much 🤩 really appreciate the positive feedback! 😍 & yeh I translated the Polish words for the colours and was like “oh not so snappy to say” 🤣 probably also because Warsaw metro was just 1 line and then increased to 2…on huge metro systems, colours are so much more useful than letters/numbers for navigation 😎
Ah, Zacisze... long ago, before the M2 was even started and M1 wasn't even fully finished at the time, I was coming back from the party or a concert or something similar, in the middle of the night, and boarded a night bus in city centre, headed south to Ursynów. It was before 1a.m., I took a vacant seat and since I may or may not have been slightly "merry" at the time, I promptly fell asleep. I woke up at Zacisze bus depot several hours later, still in the same seat, not knowing precisely where I was, and after getting my wits together, wondering how I ended up at a totally opposite side of Warsaw, across the river, and had not gotten kick out when the bus reached the souther depot at Kabaty. For context, that means I had travelled all the way to south-west of Warsaw, slept through technical stop all buses always made there, travelled back to the centre, then across the river and all the way to north-eastern part of the city and woke up at technical stop at Zacisze. I did get back home eventually... but already on the first day buses. No, I wasn't robbed, I still had all my possessions and a wallet intact. But worst of all, I wasn't "merry" any more, quite the opposite.
@@dzejrid It’s a great story though 😝😎 even if it probably wasn’t fun for you at the time lol 😂 Would make a fun RUclips video too “My Warsaw night bus nightmare” 🤣😴💀 Good that you didn’t get robbed, I really felt so safe everywhere in Warsaw while filming there 🤩🇵🇱🚇
@@n1ckburt0n That was about 20 years ago and was the first and the last time I was at Zacisze though. Frankly, my first thought after waking up was "oh, I must've slept through a couple of stops, I'll just walk". Only after leaving the bus it dawned on me I was in a completely unknown area. Actually had to ask the driver what district I was in. He seemed very amused.
on stationKondratowicza, the black markings on the walls make outlines of Warsaw buildings if you lookat them at an angle alonge the station. I noticed that only after some time of using those, but it's pretty cool :) I am not sure whether it is also true for Zacisze and Bródno
@@ewacisek8085 That’s so clever 🤓 & very cool, love that! My first thought was that it was some kinda hybrid animal print and I wondered if it meant there was a zoo nearby or something 🤣🐯
5:49 these are all related to mental health promotion/treatment. These must be at least +20 years old, I remember seeing them often when I was a child "It's worth it to ask a doctor for help" "I'll gladly listen to what you have to say" "website address" "Depression... there's no shame in it!" "Thanks to therapy and meds I know now that this void has an end!" "Bathed in colors!"
There's actually a bunch more "twins" to the Palace of Culture and Science. The Soviets had a thing for this style of buildings and you can find them dotted around former USSR countries in various sizes, that's why there's a very similar building in the middle of Riga. They all came from the Seven Sisters in Moscow, which is a group of 7 skyscrapers built in the 40s and 50s in various places in Moscow all in the same style, with sister buildings being built shortly after in major USSR cities such as Warsaw, Riga or Prague (among others). The more you know!
Ahh great information 😎 thank you! I haven’t directly compared my footage from Warsaw 🇵🇱 and Riga 🇱🇻 but yeh I thought they’re practically identical. I’ve actually been to Moscow 🇷🇺 too, but like 11 years ago…I didn’t clock the connection from that to the ones in Warsaw & Riga 😎 glad you pointed that out 🙌🏼
Gdzieś ty to wyczytał, że Polska była częścią ZSRR? To jest jakaś fałszywa informacja od ruskich trolli. Doucz się? Takimi informacjami tylko wkurzasz Polakow i lepiej żeby nie spotkali cię oko w oko.
You know, fun fact is that the Palace of Culture and science is actually eerily similar to a project by a Polish architect from 1930s. It was called the Independence Tower, was inspired by the American skyscrapers and was supposed to commemorate the regaining of independence. Of course then the war happened and the project wasn't realized. Stalin's sisters were built a few decades later.
@@leno_o17 Very interesting info 😎 & yeh there’s definitely some style and construction similarities to older skyscrapers in New York City by the looks of it 🏙️🥸
Great vid Nick! I'm planning an Eastern Europe trip this summer and Poland is definitely on the list. Your video just made navigating the country even easier lol
@@ElGriegoTravels Thanks very much! 🤩🙌🏼 Really happy it was helpful. Yeh definitely get yourself to Poland 🇵🇱 and use the Warsaw metro 🚇 it’s a really easy & fun way of getting around 😎 have a great Eastern Europe trip! ✈️
Dlaczego chcesz jechać do Rosji? A może raczej to będzie Gruzja? Przyjedź do Polski, Czech, Słowacji. Zapraszamy do Europy Centralnej. Jak przyjedziesz do Polski, to przypadkiem nie mów, że to Europa Wschodnia.
The central section from Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński was built first in one batch and opened together in 2015. The outermost stations were opened later between 2019 and 2022 (there are actually three more stations planned to the west, planned opening 2026). That's why said center part has this coherent, funky design language, and the outer stations are different and kinda all over the place. The guy who designed those initial stations (Wojciech Fangor, a famous op-art and poster artist) passed away in 2015, aged 92 - so the city couldn't employ him to continue the work even if they wanted to 😞 I need to say that I personally like the neon-y design language of the couple stations west from the central section too, though. Also there's an important detail about the Stadion Narodowy station: it's the only one that have platforms serving more than two tracks, as it is supposed to be a branch station for the future M3 line and has been already built to be ready for that.
@@kFY514 Yes, I read about Fangor when I was writing the video script, almost put that in the narration. Definitely very bold and eye-catching stations/colours. I think my faves are the ones just west of that though, just because each has its own really unique identity/design all the way through. Cool that there are gonna be three new stations fairly soon 😎 do you know who is designing them? It’ll be really interesting to see how they fit into the rest of the line 🚇 Loving the fact about Stadion station and the M3 connection 😎 nobody else has mentioned that! 🚇
To be precise, ONZ is the Polish name for UN (United Nations). So, in the center of Warsaw, the UN has the roundabout named after it and the subway station named as a result.
@@andrzejmikolajczyk9561 Thanks! 😎🙌🏼 It was great (even with my cold 🤧 and the weather 🌬️) haha…but I will definitely come back to check it out in summer, loved the city!☀️🇵🇱
Thanks for visiting Warsaw Metro, on the 2nd line you definitely missed out on walking the path between Świętokorzyska and Uniwersytet Stations, it's the best fragment to walk through, many beautiful buildings, main tourist street of Krakowaskie Przedmieście cuts through that line, during the day due to amount of my fellow students of Univeristy of Warsaw, you can see just how many and how diverse young people of Warsaw are. I hope your health will get better, I totally understand why you choose to walk less this time.
@@felisenpai9625 Thank you! 🇵🇱🚇 Ahh that does sound an interesting walk through 🤩 but yeh I felt pretty awful that day, so did less walking between things than I usually would on these metro line adventures 😇
I've been on this subway when it opened in the mid 90s. I've been on many subways (Beijing, Budapest, Tokyo, Daegu, Busan. Seoul, Paris, New York, Toronto, Montreal, LA, Hong Kong, Moscow, probably more) and yeah, while Warsaw is where I was born, there's nothing spectacular about this subway - it's clean, works well, is affordable. The one I remember the most is Beijing, for being chaotic, and the first line in Budapest, it was like 50 cm underground and the cart was very archaic.
@@the_kombinator I’ve been on a lot of those subways you listed too 😎…Beijing definitely quite chaotic 🤣🇨🇳 & I have videos coming out in the next few weeks from all 4 lines of the Budapest metro…including the one with the lil archaic cart 😉🇭🇺 Out of interest, what did you make of Seoul subway? 🇰🇷🚇
@@n1ckburt0n I was only on it once or twice - I lived in Daegu and so most of my experience is on that system - I left just before they built the monorail system (albeit I have been on it since) - I remember Seoul being orderly, and they have the secondary "anti-suicide" doors on most of the stations now. They all looked the same to me, but they were clean and orderly, as well as affordable (like Warsaw!)
@@the_kombinator ahh cool place to live 😎🇰🇷 I lived in Seoul for over 4 years & I’d agree the stations are pretty orderly yet similar, great for above ground adventures though, so much to see!
@@n1ckburt0n I lived in the boonies between Waegwan and Daegu - I bought a car 2 weeks into my stint there, there was absolutely no viable mass transit (45 min walk to a bus that comes three times a day, when it wants to) - I actually still have that same car in 2025 (well, 2024, but whatevs) as I brought it back with me. Eventually I moved into the city proper, so the car was only used to go see my girlfriend in the next city over.
@@rubynaxela8524 Well, I said they’re in a different formation…which is basically the same as rotated 🤔🤣…the rotation/formation means one looks more diamond and the other looks more square to the eye 👁️👁️
Zacisze is the least crowded metro station in Warsaw. In fact, it's placed in the middle of the small estate of single-family houses. It's placed because the metro line goes under that area to arrive at stations Kondratowicza and Bródno, which are placed in the densily populated "Bródno" area. So that would be pointless to build the metro line under the Zacisze area, but without at least the small station.
@@prk2543 Yeh it does make sense to at least put a small station there on the way 🚇 kinda wish I’d gone above ground at Zacisze now to see the difference between that and the Bródno area 🥸
@@RADZIO895 haha 🤣 bit of a jump scare definitely! 😝 I like to think they were saying “this is the quietest station on the line, please stop YouTubing! 👋🏼” 🤭
@@WielkiKaleson Yeh I would agree with you on that completely, the ceiling feels quite low too…it does feel pretty cramped, especially as I’d assume it’s gonna be one of the busiest stations as it’s currently the only change station on the system 🚇
The M1 goes through many historical and new parts of Warsaw. While M2 is more utilitarian and not that exciting. I think you have really tried to pronounce Polish names correctly. Kudos to you! I regret you skipped Nowy Świat - Uniwersytet station to see the iconic pedestrian Kings Road (Krakowskie Przedmieście and Nowy Świat).
Yeh I would agree that M1 is more exciting for the above ground adventure & M2 is more interesting below ground for the quirky stations 🚇😃 Ahh yes, there are definitely extra things I’d wanna check out next time I go to Warsaw 🇵🇱 got so many great tips from this comment section 😎
I like the video quite much. I have lived in Warsaw ever since, here I have been born, and observing how others see the city is quite fascinating! However, as in your M1 video, why do you call the literal almost central boroughs 'suburbian'? Like how Wola and Mokotów are suburbian? Thats the only point. Have a lovely week!
Thank you! 🤩 Glad you enjoyed the videos 😎🇵🇱 I really had fun making them! I guess I just tend to call anywhere that’s not skyscrapers 🏙️ and a bit residential an inner suburb/suburb 😝 to be honest, it’s kind of a synonym of the word “borough” anyway…I think it just depends which terminology a particular place uses…in Vienna 🇦🇹 I got told I have to say “neighbourhoods” 😋…but yeh I do use it as a bit of a ‘blanket term’ 😉 Have a great week! 😃
@ I do not think that it matters here how you call the administartive parts of the city. Since I have always preferred british English, I call them boroughs, but disctricts work as well! Here we call a district ”Dzielnica” which in slow translation would mean something like ”divider/divosion”. And the highest skyscrapper is not in the central one😝! Thanks for answer and, again, have a wonderful week!
5:50 So... did someone do it? Hm, anyway, from left to right: "It's worth it to ask a dcoctor for help" "I'll gladly listen to you." an address of a website called "stop depression" "Depression - no shame!" "Thanks to the therapy I know this abyss has an end!" "swimming in blankets"
@@icosahedron7497 Thanks very much 😎 so helpful! I think someone else did it but it’s in a comment thread further down 💬 so this will still be useful to many viewers 😍
The central section Rondo Daszyńskiego - Dworzec Wileński was highly supported by EU Funds and one of the first big projects supported by EU in Warsaw, so they splashed out on station design and transit interconnections.
@@n1ckburt0n and yes EU is founding all of these projects in more than 50-60% of the costs as these are crucial from the perspective of green public transport.
Probably just time 🕰️ and not feeling very well 🤧 on the filming day. I would’ve liked to check out around/above a few more of the stations 🚇 There’s a brief shot of Dworzec Wileński from the train, but it’s just not mentioned in the narration.
The graffitis under the bridge are a campaign for mental health. Didn't catch what exactly it says though, sorry. Also the wall decorations for stations from Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński were designed by Wojciech Fangor, a painter and a graphic artist.
@@legitHarry Hey Harry, thanks for letting me know 😉 I’ll be aware of that next time I’m in Poland 🇵🇱…that must be a pretty difficult law to enforce though, wowzers 😝
That's absolutely true, but Xavier is not a very good example of how we pronounce ks because in Xavier the x is sounded as Z. Ks sounds like the x in Alex.
10:49 youre zooming at the last remanent of the Warsaw Ghetto wall, which was build during the 2 world war by Germans to segregate Jewish population from the rest of the city. Most of the wall was desroyed dyring the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and general Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
@@tenstrateq6262 Ahh yes! Thanks for adding that 🤓 I’d actually originally meant to go over closer to it & make it more of a feature in the video but in the end I had to get a move on cos there was so much line still to cover & it looked as though it was gonna be a long way around to get over to it 🙊
I just translated “Red” and “Blue” to Polish 🇵🇱🤣 yeh they’re not so short/snappy as they are in English lol It probably doesn’t matter when there are only two lines anyway. I find colours so much easier on bigger metro systems though 🚇
@@n1ckburt0n In Polish both colours' names have 3 syllables (czerwona, niebieska), so it is in fact longer to say. Additionally, "blue line" is a telephone line for domestic violence victims, "orange line" is a line for children addicted to alcohol and drugs, and their parents. So imo that is the primary association of such a "colourful" names.
@@emiliawilson8410 Yes I’m aware of that, that’s why it’s M2 in the video title…but they do also have a designated colour 😝 that’s why every station name sign and line map are in red (and blue on M1) 🚇
@@MarcanMC Is it a dodgy area over there or something? 🤔 I honestly didn’t feel unsafe at any point anywhere in Warsaw, nobody bothered me at all, even though I had my phone out filming 📹 I’d be more worried about filming in London at the moment 💀
@ most people from west Warsaw only cross the Vistula when they have to because the east side is pretty underdeveloped compared to the western side especially the dreaded districts of south and north Praga which both used to be way more dangerous in the 90’s and 2000’s than they are now but are still seen as a backdrop of the city nowadays. When people from other parts of the city think of a person from Praga they usually imagine a violent fan of Legia Warsaw (the football club) who’s whole day consist of going to watch a football game with his friends, getting shitfaced on vodka with his friends and coming back home to beat his wife and kids or alternatively they imagine a gangster wannabe drill rapper
@@mklml1 yeh barriers can be good for safety…but I suppose they can detract from the overall design of the station & walls etc. do many people fall or jump onto the tracks in Warsaw? 🫣🚇
It is automated (little known fact), the driver is present but the ride and approach is 100% automatic. The platform screen doors could be a great addition though, accidents sometimes happen even a few times in single week, lol
The M1 line looks poorly designed, especially the plastic entrance in the round. I hope they can make the M1 line more similar to the M2 and the upcoming M3 and M4 lines.
@@Martinswede Yeh the M2 line stations are certainly a lot more snazzy and unique 🤓🤩 I’m intrigued to see what they’ve got planned for the upcoming lines! 🚇
@@n1ckburt0n Scholz kept repeating that he did not want escalation and therefore he would not give Ukraine the weapons it needed. Previously, Chancellor Merkel was also a supporter of cooperation with Putin, despite warnings from Poles and Balts. As usual or as always.
Based and geopolitics pilled Germany. Meanwhile Poland after getting destroyed twice by Germany and Russia still decides to antagonize them both and hope that this time anglosaxons will save us xd. Germany and Rusisa learnt a lesson, Poland didn't.
@@filipzietek5146 hahahah. Rosja wyciągnęła wnioski i chce być wasalem Chin, bo nie rozumie, że XIX wiek się skończył. A Niemcy, niestety dla nas, właśnie wchodzą w spiralę długotrwałych kłopotów gospodarczych wynikających z błędnej polityki Merkel i Scholza.
Yes, no one in Warsaw refers to the metro lines by the colour. For many years it was just one line so it was known just as "the metro" (except there are no definite articles in Polish so - "metro") and blue was just the colour of the signage in the whole metro system. Then when they'd started building the second line and it was given the red colour scheme, retroactively assigning blue as the colour of the first line. Maybe you've noticed that the M2 line is being built in chunks of 3-4 stations, sharing similar design.
@@Halfpipesaur That does make sense as it went from only one line to two. I wonder if the way locals refer to the lines will change when there are more of them and journeys could involve more changes. Although I noticed that Polish words for the colours are more syllables so they’re less “snappy” to say than they are in English. I lived in Seoul 🇰🇷 for a few years and they have a mixture of numbered lines & named lines but it was so much easier to use colours for navigation and say “I’m taking red, orange, yellow & green” 🔴🟠🟡🟢rather than “I’m taking Shunbunbang, Line 3, Suin-Bundang, Line 2” lol 🤪 Yeh I definitely noticed the chunks and the differences in design between them, that’s a nice quirk of M2 I think. My favourite stations were probably all in the same chunk - Ksieçia Janusza, Młynów & Płocka 🚇
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Thanks for the amazing response to this video 🤩 so many new subscribers & really thoughtful, detailed comments from locals adding extra interesting information about the stations & areas, love it 🚇♥️🇵🇱
For everyone else watching from outside Poland, let me know where in the world 🌍 you’re watching from 📍🤓
You missed a very interesting spot in Płocka Station. There are bones of straight- tusked elephant exposed in the floor. 100 thousand years ago there was a huge lake and the creature probably drowned in it. The bones were found during the construction of the station.
@@xxxxxx400 omg that sounds awesome 🤩 dunno how I missed that! (I’m blaming the cold 🤧🤣)
@@xxxxxx400 wow!
Wow good to know! I'm from Warsaw and I didn't know that
Tell your president to give more money for promote the city, not eco terrorists who block the roads. I've never heard about that thing, about this place what was before, etc.
Thanks for sharing this information. Good to know.
@ pog mo thoin
You said “rondo daszyńskiego” perfectly!❤
Thanks 🤩 I’m so proud of myself & Google translate 🦜 on our video editing partnership 😄
It's actually really great that the most use stations are so boldly colored. When it's your daily commute you can just zone out and get out when you see the color coming once you learn all the stations assigned shades
@@Polifromia yeh, that does make a lot of sense…much easier to miss your stop when they all look similar. I used to live near Oriente Station in Lisbon 🇵🇹 but luckily, at the time it was the end station so I never had that problem 😝
The station where you said that you have the whole station to yourself is actually the least used station in the whole system. It's called "Zacisze" (Quiet place) and is literally smacked in the middle of single family housing neighborhood with a single bus line connecting to it.
Once I went there just to see how quiet empty it is there and honestly I was a bit shocked.
@@mewosh_ I honestly wish I’d gone outside at Zacisze now to see that for myself! 👻 I think I’d just looked at my phone maps and been like “not gonna be much of interest outside here” ☠️ but sometimes absolutely nothing is kind of a vibe 🤣
Ostatnio jak byłem w Warszawie, to wysiadłem na zaciszu. Niesamowite miejsce to tak jak by jednym przystankiem metra przenieść się z wielkiego molocha, największego miasta w Polsce do małego miasta spokojnego miasteczka
@@pankox_pl214 such a cool contrast that it’s so quiet whilst still being a part of the biggest city 🚇 🇵🇱
7:10 Yes, the blue color refers to the nearby swimming pool. However, the concept of the station's neon logo itself is a reference to its name and the surrounding area. "Młyn" = mill. The logo features circles like mill wheels because there used to be mills here.
Furthermore, in the case of the "Płocka" station neon, the logo design is a reference to the nearby former radio factories, and the logo clearly includes pathways resembling those on a printed circuit board.
@@franekgruca9905 Love all this info 🤓 thanks! The mill thing & circles makes total sense now 😎 it so clever how they’ve woven those features in 🤩 definitely two of my fave stations on the line 🚇…kinda wish the company that designed these had done the entire line 😋
"Święto Krzyśka" gave me a laugh. Great video! :DDD
Haha 🤣 thanks! I just try to copy what the translator says 🦜🤷🏻♂️😝 but can be tricky when I’m bla bla bla-ing in English at the same time lol 🙊
I heard Świento Kryśka
@@xxxxxx400 I’m guessing that must mean something else 😝💀 think I pronounced that station name better in the M1 video 🙊
@@n1ckburt0n it can be translate as Saint Christine but in patois-think of an old woman from a remote village 😉
@@n1ckburt0n it can be translated as Saint Cristine but in patois. Imagine an old woman from a remote village ;)
Święto Kryśka. Patronka wszystkich podróżujących metro M2. XD
@@nuuskamuikkunen407 Clearly I must’ve been more accurate on the pronunciation of that station on the M1 video than in this one 🤯🔫🤣
@@n1ckburt0n This speech above is a joke. Swiętokrzyska (Holy Cross) station comes from name of the street. And name of the street comes from Holy Cross Church in the neighborhood officially.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Church,_Warsaw
The commentator says it is also the patron saint of M2 travelers. What he means is a dash of cocaine ("kryska" from "kreska" in Polish, kreska spelling is similar to "kryz"=cross, and now Swiętokrzyska is a "saint dash") and corporate employees in those big office buildings.
From my experience living in Warsaw it is often that the hellish wide suburban arterials have the best cycling and walking paths just because there's so much space to put them.
@@mewosh_ haha 🤣 tbf that does make sense 🚘 I was surprised just how walkable the city was generally though, and with logical routes for cycling too.
The example I gave in the video about Seoul 🇰🇷 I literally ended up walking on the hard shoulder of the actual motorway at like 2am cos there was no obvious path through ☠️🤣
You should visit Warsaw in summer. The parks are much more welcoming then. Thanx for the trip :)
Thank you! 😎 Yeh I can imagine the parks 🌳 are so welcoming in the summer ☀️, it’ll be a good excuse for me to visit Warsaw again! 🇵🇱
@@n1ckburt0nyou need to see Łazienki Królewskie then, we have the domesticated peacocks just wandering around.
Great video! The reason why some stations look so different from each other is that they used to just go from "Rondo Daszyńskiego" to "Dworzec Wileński," and the rest was built very recently, about one or two years ago, so it was a completely different idea and time. The strong neons on the stations near the city center were once perfectly fitting with the trends and style popular back when they were first built (2015). I hope this helps!
@@1tsCl0udi3s Thanks very much! 🤩 Yes, that makes a lot of sense 😎 my favourite stations are the one just to the west of the city centre with the neon etc. so freakin’ cool 🙌🏼
The m2 line is looking very modern
Yeh it’s pretty snazzy for the most part 🤩🚇🎨
You could really make a video on the brilliant designs of tram networks in Poland, including Warsaw. Love from Bielany, Warsaw 💖
@thatdudethatcommentsstuff Very good idea 😎 I was actually thinking about tram adventures when I visited places like Krakow & Tallinn that don’t have a metro system 🚇 definitely something I’d like to do 🤩
I love the Warsaw metro! This is a great video :) M1 is my daily commute, but it's always a pleasure to take M2, it's beautiful. I'm yet to ride it end to end and explore alongside the stations, I'll do that in the spring 😊
@@BodyAndSol96 Thank you so much 😎 really appreciate the positive feedback 🤩 I reckon spring will be the perfect time to explore M2 end to end, enjoy! 🚇🥳
Your perfect pronunciations melt my little Polish heart 🥰
@@katharina... Aww 🥰 thanks so much! To be honest, I have quite a few Polish 🇵🇱 friends and I was like 😅 💭‘I have to try and get this right cos if they happen to see this they’ll be like’…”you went to our country and butchered the language! 😐”🤣🤪
6:13 "Footpaths and psychopaths everywhere..." Oh no 😉😁
@@katharina... Lmfao 🤣 I just had to scroll to see what I said there 😝 it was meant to be “cycle paths” 🚲 but it definitely did sound like “psychopaths” 😅😆 I’m blaming my sore throat that day 🤒
@@n1ckburt0n Ha ha, yeah naah it was very clear what you meant 👍 And now you're trying to wriggle out of it 😜 My ears are also planning an early retirement, so it could be that as well 😁
9:44 "and very hard to pronounce"
almost nails it unlike some others ;)
@Thurden_mixd Only “almost nails it” 😭…52 people liked the comment saying I said it perfectly lol…Google translate is gonna be so mad 😠
lol yeh looks as though Świętokrzyska wasn’t great on this one 😭 it is a bit tricky trying to smoothly narrate in English then randomly say a difficult foreign word though 😝🤪
@@n1ckburt0n lol
5:39 It is worth mentioning that there is a large bazaar every Sunday. Mainly cheap food, cheap clothes, but you can find unique items
10:00 The walls on the platform of the central section of the metro were designed by Wojciech Fangor. He is one of those artists, when you look at his paintings you wonder how it is that it costs millions.
@@maciejz7892 The bazaar sounds awesome 🤩 who doesn’t love cheap food and unique items! 😎
I just googled his paintings and I’ve got to agree with you 😝💰 I think the bold colours are fun on the metro walls in the central section but for overall station designs I preferred the ones on the western part of the line 🚇
Stations are ultra cool, I like travelling through them. So proud of our state in these moments! 🎉
@@wiktorm9858 Yeh you definitely should be proud of it 🇵🇱🚇 this is such an interesting set of stations to explore! 😎
So clean in comparison to US subway system!
@@askfox79 overall, it’s a relatively new line but yes, very clean…a joy to explore! 😎🚇🙌🏼
You've done so well with the pronunciations!! It sounds very cute.😊 I know our language is definitely not an easy one to speak unfortunately. Very interesting clip, and 😂 at the Cruella De Ville bathroom chic comment at 7:00 you're getting an extra subscriber for the sense of humour, and for showing public transport videos.
👋🏻 from Edinburgh!
@@wolfsberg88 I smiled all the way through reading this comment 😃 thanks so much!
I think the more videos I produce, the more I’m like “I’m just gonna unleash the humour/randomness and see what happens” 🤪🤣
Lucky you living in Edinburgh 🏴 such a fab city!
@@n1ckburt0n you're very welcome 😊 And that's the way to do it. Randomness and UK sense of humour are always appreciated 😉 Just on my way to work, watching the other Warsaw clip and enjoying that too 😁
Aye Edinburgh's decent, hope we'll get more 🚋 here! If you're ever in PL again, I'd recommend my hometown Poznań, in the West - nice city for a weekend!
Ps. I'm bad with accents - are you from Manchester?
@@wolfsberg88 Thanks a lot! 😎 yeh I’m just gonna unleash the randomness and humour on every video from now where I can 🤪🤣
Actually Poznań has been on my list for a while now (almost booked it for Xmas markets this year) & I have a friend who lives close to there 🇵🇱 maybe a tram adventure around there 👀🚃
I’m from Middlesbrough 📍🌎 yeh UK accents are very hard to pinpoint & I’ve also worked abroad a lot so I don’t know if that’s altered it a bit 🥸
the ceiling panels at płocka are actually meant to be milky white, the dark spots are a dust buildup. The design didnt consider that and they're really hard to clean so the transport authority only does that once in a while when the light level gets too low
Oops 😝 bit of a planning fail there then…great fact though, thanks 🤩
I do think Płocka station has one of the most interesting overall designs on the line though! 😎
4:57 Here you are walking alongsite a bicycle only road... which you shouldn't do, watch out for the blue circularif sings with a white a bicycle and for white bicycles painted on the ground.
There are also blue circular sings showing which side of a path is for bicycles and which is for pedestrains, if pedestrains are above a bicycle, then it's shared.
No i jak jest wspólna, to pieszy ma pierwszeństwo.
@@amadeosendiulo2137 congrats 🥳 on paying such close attention to the video 🥸 but, do you see my legs? 🦵🏼 Maybe I have wheels 🚲🤣
10:46 - my block :D Funny enough that i've never used M2 xD Maybe i'll give it a try :D
@@cathulhu3772 that’s a cool looking block 😎✌🏼 yeh definitely give M2 a whirl! 🚇
Stadion, CN Kopernik, Płocka and Młynów are my favourites. Still cycling is my favourite mode of transportation in Warsaw. Great to see how this city is changing and developing.
@@candelas31 Yeh I loved Płocka & Młynów too! I’d say probably those two & Księcia Janusza are my top 3 cos they’re all just so unique and quirky! 🎨😎
I was honestly a bit jealous of the cyclists 🚴 it looked to be a great way of getting around efficiently!
@@n1ckburt0nyeah, the Warsaw cyclist infrastructure has developed tremendously for the past decade! And for the 9 months in year you can actually rent one of few thousands metrobikes (Veturilo) on the stations all around the city, which first 20 minutes are free of charge - default mode of transportation for many of us on such short distances :D
@@marsjaninzmarsa omg that’s definitely a great tip for next time I visit! 🤩
Zacisze station is the least used station on the Warsaw metro, because it is directly under single-family estate and basically no one uses it
Oh great stat about the usage! 🥸🙌🏼 Yeh it definitely was eerily quiet…sorta wish I went above ground there now to see if it was a lil ghost town 👻
@@n1ckburt0n Rather then a ghost town, you would see like single house neighborhood akin to Londons boroughs, It's an amazing contrast to the Kondratowicza with massive high rise apartment buildings.
@@felisenpai9625 probably would’ve been an interesting contrast between the two places though 😎
I’ll probably feature some London tube adventures on the channel at some point, but quite honestly, might end up getting my phone snatched there at the moment! 📱😱
M2 was built in segments, you can clearly distingush the segemnts by common styles.
Original path was Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński then Płocka-Księcia Janusza segment was added followed by Szwedzka-Trocka, Ulrychów-Bemowo and finally Zacisze-Bródno
@@MaciejowPL Oh completely yeh 🥸 & I think that’s a great quirk of the line 🚇 my fave is definitely the Płocka-Księcia Janusza segment…so unique and memorable! 🤩
Wonder what style they’ll go for in the new stations that they’re adding to the line 🤔😀
@n1ckburt0n West went little into light steampunk/industrialpunk. I hope they continue it which is possible as plans show it going into Włochy district which is home to Chopin Airport and by the looks of it President of Warsaw is into that as the foot/bicycle bridge shows
wonderful video!!
the reason why we don't say the colours of the lines in polish is probably because our colour names have a lot of syllables
for example 'red line' would be 'czerwona linia', and thats an unwieldy 5 syllables! the same case with 'blue line' ('niebieska linia')
@bunjection Thanks so much 🤩 really appreciate the positive feedback! 😍 & yeh I translated the Polish words for the colours and was like “oh not so snappy to say” 🤣 probably also because Warsaw metro was just 1 line and then increased to 2…on huge metro systems, colours are so much more useful than letters/numbers for navigation 😎
@@n1ckburt0n that too! keep up the good work!!!
Ah, Zacisze... long ago, before the M2 was even started and M1 wasn't even fully finished at the time, I was coming back from the party or a concert or something similar, in the middle of the night, and boarded a night bus in city centre, headed south to Ursynów. It was before 1a.m., I took a vacant seat and since I may or may not have been slightly "merry" at the time, I promptly fell asleep. I woke up at Zacisze bus depot several hours later, still in the same seat, not knowing precisely where I was, and after getting my wits together, wondering how I ended up at a totally opposite side of Warsaw, across the river, and had not gotten kick out when the bus reached the souther depot at Kabaty.
For context, that means I had travelled all the way to south-west of Warsaw, slept through technical stop all buses always made there, travelled back to the centre, then across the river and all the way to north-eastern part of the city and woke up at technical stop at Zacisze.
I did get back home eventually... but already on the first day buses. No, I wasn't robbed, I still had all my possessions and a wallet intact. But worst of all, I wasn't "merry" any more, quite the opposite.
@@dzejrid It’s a great story though 😝😎 even if it probably wasn’t fun for you at the time lol 😂
Would make a fun RUclips video too “My Warsaw night bus nightmare” 🤣😴💀
Good that you didn’t get robbed, I really felt so safe everywhere in Warsaw while filming there 🤩🇵🇱🚇
@@n1ckburt0n That was about 20 years ago and was the first and the last time I was at Zacisze though. Frankly, my first thought after waking up was "oh, I must've slept through a couple of stops, I'll just walk". Only after leaving the bus it dawned on me I was in a completely unknown area. Actually had to ask the driver what district I was in. He seemed very amused.
Great vid ❤
im polish watching this while being to warsaw once while m2 wasnt open kinda fun
@@candace8281 Haha nice 🙌🏼 did it make you want to visit Warsaw again and explore on M2? 🚇 🇵🇱
Your speech is so peaceful you could be taking about blue almonds and I'd feel no stress of life
@@JkGozdzik That’s such a nice compliment 🗣️🤩 thank you! I’ll see if I can somehow weave blue almonds into the next video 😉🤣
on stationKondratowicza, the black markings on the walls make outlines of Warsaw buildings if you lookat them at an angle alonge the station. I noticed that only after some time of using those, but it's pretty cool :) I am not sure whether it is also true for Zacisze and Bródno
@@ewacisek8085 That’s so clever 🤓 & very cool, love that! My first thought was that it was some kinda hybrid animal print and I wondered if it meant there was a zoo nearby or something 🤣🐯
it's true for all 3
5:49 these are all related to mental health promotion/treatment. These must be at least +20 years old, I remember seeing them often when I was a child
"It's worth it to ask a doctor for help"
"I'll gladly listen to what you have to say"
"website address"
"Depression... there's no shame in it!"
"Thanks to therapy and meds I know now that this void has an end!"
"Bathed in colors!"
@@fishoutofwater7743 Thank you for translating them all 😎🙌🏼 such an important message & great that they’ve lasted so long there! 🧠
There's actually a bunch more "twins" to the Palace of Culture and Science. The Soviets had a thing for this style of buildings and you can find them dotted around former USSR countries in various sizes, that's why there's a very similar building in the middle of Riga. They all came from the Seven Sisters in Moscow, which is a group of 7 skyscrapers built in the 40s and 50s in various places in Moscow all in the same style, with sister buildings being built shortly after in major USSR cities such as Warsaw, Riga or Prague (among others). The more you know!
Ahh great information 😎 thank you! I haven’t directly compared my footage from Warsaw 🇵🇱 and Riga 🇱🇻 but yeh I thought they’re practically identical.
I’ve actually been to Moscow 🇷🇺 too, but like 11 years ago…I didn’t clock the connection from that to the ones in Warsaw & Riga 😎 glad you pointed that out 🙌🏼
Cenne informacje . Jedno zastrzeżenie, Polska nigdy nie należała do ZSRR .
Gdzieś ty to wyczytał, że Polska była częścią ZSRR? To jest jakaś fałszywa informacja od ruskich trolli. Doucz się? Takimi informacjami tylko wkurzasz Polakow i lepiej żeby nie spotkali cię oko w oko.
You know, fun fact is that the Palace of Culture and science is actually eerily similar to a project by a Polish architect from 1930s. It was called the Independence Tower, was inspired by the American skyscrapers and was supposed to commemorate the regaining of independence. Of course then the war happened and the project wasn't realized.
Stalin's sisters were built a few decades later.
@@leno_o17 Very interesting info 😎 & yeh there’s definitely some style and construction similarities to older skyscrapers in New York City by the looks of it 🏙️🥸
Great vid Nick! I'm planning an Eastern Europe trip this summer and Poland is definitely on the list. Your video just made navigating the country even easier lol
@@ElGriegoTravels Thanks very much! 🤩🙌🏼 Really happy it was helpful. Yeh definitely get yourself to Poland 🇵🇱 and use the Warsaw metro 🚇 it’s a really easy & fun way of getting around 😎 have a great Eastern Europe trip! ✈️
@@ElGriegoTravels don’t you think visiting Eastern Europe is very risky this time? Ukraine and Russia are in war and Belarus is very hostile.
A co chcesz zwiedzać w Rosji
Dlaczego chcesz jechać do Rosji? A może raczej to będzie Gruzja?
Przyjedź do Polski, Czech, Słowacji. Zapraszamy do Europy Centralnej.
Jak przyjedziesz do Polski, to przypadkiem nie mów, że to Europa Wschodnia.
@@xxxxxx400Can you please elaborate what exactly is dangerous in EU countries like Poland or Czechia for example?
The central section from Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński was built first in one batch and opened together in 2015. The outermost stations were opened later between 2019 and 2022 (there are actually three more stations planned to the west, planned opening 2026). That's why said center part has this coherent, funky design language, and the outer stations are different and kinda all over the place. The guy who designed those initial stations (Wojciech Fangor, a famous op-art and poster artist) passed away in 2015, aged 92 - so the city couldn't employ him to continue the work even if they wanted to 😞 I need to say that I personally like the neon-y design language of the couple stations west from the central section too, though.
Also there's an important detail about the Stadion Narodowy station: it's the only one that have platforms serving more than two tracks, as it is supposed to be a branch station for the future M3 line and has been already built to be ready for that.
@@kFY514 Yes, I read about Fangor when I was writing the video script, almost put that in the narration. Definitely very bold and eye-catching stations/colours. I think my faves are the ones just west of that though, just because each has its own really unique identity/design all the way through.
Cool that there are gonna be three new stations fairly soon 😎 do you know who is designing them? It’ll be really interesting to see how they fit into the rest of the line 🚇
Loving the fact about Stadion station and the M3 connection 😎 nobody else has mentioned that! 🚇
To be precise, ONZ is the Polish name for UN (United Nations). So, in the center of Warsaw, the UN has the roundabout named after it and the subway station named as a result.
@@prk2543 Ahh ok thanks 🙏🏻 for adding that…I’d clocked the roundabout connection but not the UN bit 🤓
👍 👍 for getting Rondo Daszyńskiego 95% right. Impressive for an Anglophone.
@@birotariusintaberna818 Thanks very much 😎🙌🏼 I’ll take 95% haha…Google translate is gonna be mad at me for not getting it 100% though 💀🤣
Hope you really enjoyed your Warsaw stay :) Today, the weather is REALLY bad.
@@andrzejmikolajczyk9561 Thanks! 😎🙌🏼 It was great (even with my cold 🤧 and the weather 🌬️) haha…but I will definitely come back to check it out in summer, loved the city!☀️🇵🇱
Thanks for visiting Warsaw Metro, on the 2nd line you definitely missed out on walking the path between Świętokorzyska and Uniwersytet Stations, it's the best fragment to walk through, many beautiful buildings, main tourist street of Krakowaskie Przedmieście cuts through that line, during the day due to amount of my fellow students of Univeristy of Warsaw, you can see just how many and how diverse young people of Warsaw are. I hope your health will get better, I totally understand why you choose to walk less this time.
@@felisenpai9625 Thank you! 🇵🇱🚇 Ahh that does sound an interesting walk through 🤩 but yeh I felt pretty awful that day, so did less walking between things than I usually would on these metro line adventures 😇
Fun fact about this neons. Inspiration for that is history - in Warsaw in PRL there were many of them around the city.
@@justdriving9286 Very cool inspiration 😎 I really loved all the neon signs, definitely added to the funky vibe of the line! 🚇
Funny to watch your home in tourist video 😅
@@Alix49 Hopefully it was “funny” in a good way 😝😅
Bródno pozdrawia 👍
@@tomekhauzer Hello 👋🏼 Tomek & Bródno…those hammocks near Bródno station must be great in summer! ☀️🚇
I've been on this subway when it opened in the mid 90s. I've been on many subways (Beijing, Budapest, Tokyo, Daegu, Busan. Seoul, Paris, New York, Toronto, Montreal, LA, Hong Kong, Moscow, probably more) and yeah, while Warsaw is where I was born, there's nothing spectacular about this subway - it's clean, works well, is affordable. The one I remember the most is Beijing, for being chaotic, and the first line in Budapest, it was like 50 cm underground and the cart was very archaic.
@@the_kombinator I’ve been on a lot of those subways you listed too 😎…Beijing definitely quite chaotic 🤣🇨🇳 & I have videos coming out in the next few weeks from all 4 lines of the Budapest metro…including the one with the lil archaic cart 😉🇭🇺
Out of interest, what did you make of Seoul subway? 🇰🇷🚇
@@n1ckburt0n I was only on it once or twice - I lived in Daegu and so most of my experience is on that system - I left just before they built the monorail system (albeit I have been on it since) - I remember Seoul being orderly, and they have the secondary "anti-suicide" doors on most of the stations now. They all looked the same to me, but they were clean and orderly, as well as affordable (like Warsaw!)
@@the_kombinator ahh cool place to live 😎🇰🇷 I lived in Seoul for over 4 years & I’d agree the stations are pretty orderly yet similar, great for above ground adventures though, so much to see!
@@n1ckburt0n I lived in the boonies between Waegwan and Daegu - I bought a car 2 weeks into my stint there, there was absolutely no viable mass transit (45 min walk to a bus that comes three times a day, when it wants to) - I actually still have that same car in 2025 (well, 2024, but whatevs) as I brought it back with me. Eventually I moved into the city proper, so the car was only used to go see my girlfriend in the next city over.
1:33 No, both stations have the exact same square pattern, only at the Bemowo station it's rotated by 45 degrees 😆
@@rubynaxela8524 Well, I said they’re in a different formation…which is basically the same as rotated 🤔🤣…the rotation/formation means one looks more diamond and the other looks more square to the eye 👁️👁️
Zacisze is the least crowded metro station in Warsaw.
In fact, it's placed in the middle of the small estate of single-family houses. It's placed because the metro line goes under that area to arrive at stations Kondratowicza and Bródno, which are placed in the densily populated "Bródno" area.
So that would be pointless to build the metro line under the Zacisze area, but without at least the small station.
@@prk2543 Yeh it does make sense to at least put a small station there on the way 🚇 kinda wish I’d gone above ground at Zacisze now to see the difference between that and the Bródno area 🥸
Im in warsaw right now too. I thought it was old
16:45 this scared the shit out of me
@@RADZIO895 haha 🤣 bit of a jump scare definitely! 😝 I like to think they were saying “this is the quietest station on the line, please stop YouTubing! 👋🏼” 🤭
Świętokrzyska is terribly cramped as for a junction. Those huge pillars on the platform steal precious space!
@@WielkiKaleson Yeh I would agree with you on that completely, the ceiling feels quite low too…it does feel pretty cramped, especially as I’d assume it’s gonna be one of the busiest stations as it’s currently the only change station on the system 🚇
The M1 goes through many historical and new parts of Warsaw. While M2 is more utilitarian and not that exciting. I think you have really tried to pronounce Polish names correctly. Kudos to you! I regret you skipped Nowy Świat - Uniwersytet station to see the iconic pedestrian Kings Road (Krakowskie Przedmieście and Nowy Świat).
Yeh I would agree that M1 is more exciting for the above ground adventure & M2 is more interesting below ground for the quirky stations 🚇😃
Ahh yes, there are definitely extra things I’d wanna check out next time I go to Warsaw 🇵🇱 got so many great tips from this comment section 😎
I onec biked from kabaty to centrum stations and it was hard😅 but i never walked that much
@@elemelkielemelki2702 still a fair trek even on a bike! 🚲😎
I've walked from Kabaty to Młociny once, it was wild :DDDD
@@marsjaninzmarsa that is such a wild thing to do & I’m so here for it!🚶🏻♂️🙌🏼🤣 I wonder how many steps that was in total lol 😝
I like the video quite much. I have lived in Warsaw ever since, here I have been born, and observing how others see the city is quite fascinating! However, as in your M1 video, why do you call the literal almost central boroughs 'suburbian'? Like how Wola and Mokotów are suburbian? Thats the only point. Have a lovely week!
Thank you! 🤩 Glad you enjoyed the videos 😎🇵🇱 I really had fun making them!
I guess I just tend to call anywhere that’s not skyscrapers 🏙️ and a bit residential an inner suburb/suburb 😝 to be honest, it’s kind of a synonym of the word “borough” anyway…I think it just depends which terminology a particular place uses…in Vienna 🇦🇹 I got told I have to say “neighbourhoods” 😋…but yeh I do use it as a bit of a ‘blanket term’ 😉
Have a great week! 😃
@ I do not think that it matters here how you call the administartive parts of the city. Since I have always preferred british English, I call them boroughs, but disctricts work as well! Here we call a district ”Dzielnica” which in slow translation would mean something like ”divider/divosion”. And the highest skyscrapper is not in the central one😝!
Thanks for answer and, again, have a wonderful week!
5:50 So... did someone do it? Hm, anyway, from left to right:
"It's worth it to ask a dcoctor for help"
"I'll gladly listen to you."
an address of a website called "stop depression"
"Depression - no shame!"
"Thanks to the therapy I know this abyss has an end!"
"swimming in blankets"
@@icosahedron7497 Thanks very much 😎 so helpful!
I think someone else did it but it’s in a comment thread further down 💬 so this will still be useful to many viewers 😍
Bródno - Dirty 😂
The central section Rondo Daszyńskiego - Dworzec Wileński was highly supported by EU Funds and one of the first big projects supported by EU in Warsaw, so they splashed out on station design and transit interconnections.
@___lzcat Oh interesting info 🥸🇪🇺 thanks! Definitely a good thing to splash out on 🚇
@@dave7sky I’m definitely glad there’s an M2 as well! 🤩🚇 Really interested to see what they have planned for M3/4/5 🥸
@@n1ckburt0n and yes EU is founding all of these projects in more than 50-60% of the costs as these are crucial from the perspective of green public transport.
@@dave7sky exciting that there’s a lot more in the works though! 🤩
also why did you skip Dworzec Wileński?
Probably just time 🕰️ and not feeling very well 🤧 on the filming day. I would’ve liked to check out around/above a few more of the stations 🚇
There’s a brief shot of Dworzec Wileński from the train, but it’s just not mentioned in the narration.
The graffitis under the bridge are a campaign for mental health. Didn't catch what exactly it says though, sorry.
Also the wall decorations for stations from Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński were designed by Wojciech Fangor, a painter and a graphic artist.
Ahh 🧠 a very important message then! 😎 Thanks for giving an idea of what it’s about 🙌🏼
The messages were "There's no shame in being depressed", "Don't be afraid to ask for help", "See the doctor" etc.
@@psoras very important messages 🧠 👨🏼⚕️thanks for translating them 😎
Hi Nick, just thought you should know holding your phone/a camera out while on a pedestrian crossing in Poland is illegal
@@legitHarry Hey Harry, thanks for letting me know 😉 I’ll be aware of that next time I’m in Poland 🇵🇱…that must be a pretty difficult law to enforce though, wowzers 😝
Warsaw metro is small, but looks better than Prague or New York metro
Polish "ks" are pronunciated like a english "x". English Xavier is Ksawery in Polish.
@@GromKuba Thanks for the explanation 🥸 that makes sense. If I saw “Ksawery” I wouldn’t even know where to start saying it aloud 🤣
That's absolutely true, but Xavier is not a very good example of how we pronounce ks because in Xavier the x is sounded as Z. Ks sounds like the x in Alex.
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I’ve got some festive vlogs coming up from Tallinn 🇪🇪 and Riga 🇱🇻😉…Merry Xmas 🎄⛄️
Is the M2 Line 🚇🇵🇱 the funkiest metro line in Europe? 😝 Discuss ⬇️
10:49 youre zooming at the last remanent of the Warsaw Ghetto wall, which was build during the 2 world war by Germans to segregate Jewish population from the rest of the city. Most of the wall was desroyed dyring the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and general Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
@@tenstrateq6262 Ahh yes! Thanks for adding that 🤓 I’d actually originally meant to go over closer to it & make it more of a feature in the video but in the end I had to get a move on cos there was so much line still to cover & it looked as though it was gonna be a long way around to get over to it 🙊
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@@robertdziedzic8083 Thanks 🤩👍🏼
no one calls the lines by their color, m1/m2 is much faster to say in polish
I just translated “Red” and “Blue” to Polish 🇵🇱🤣 yeh they’re not so short/snappy as they are in English lol
It probably doesn’t matter when there are only two lines anyway. I find colours so much easier on bigger metro systems though 🚇
@@n1ckburt0n In Polish both colours' names have 3 syllables (czerwona, niebieska), so it is in fact longer to say.
Additionally, "blue line" is a telephone line for domestic violence victims, "orange line" is a line for children addicted to alcohol and drugs, and their parents. So imo that is the primary association of such a "colourful" names.
The lines are numbered coded the Red line is M2
@@emiliawilson8410 Yes I’m aware of that, that’s why it’s M2 in the video title…but they do also have a designated colour 😝 that’s why every station name sign and line map are in red (and blue on M1) 🚇
The traines are 3 minutes apart
That’s a great frequency! 🚇
Even tho i live in warsaw i did not know some of thees facts
Haha 🥸🧠 every day is a school day for us all I guess 😝
Many of M2 stations logos refer to their historical locations.
@@krzysztofj1993 So many cool little details on this line 🚇🇵🇱🤩
Real brave of you to go to north Warsaw and also for crossing the river
@@MarcanMC Is it a dodgy area over there or something? 🤔 I honestly didn’t feel unsafe at any point anywhere in Warsaw, nobody bothered me at all, even though I had my phone out filming 📹 I’d be more worried about filming in London at the moment 💀
@ most people from west Warsaw only cross the Vistula when they have to because the east side is pretty underdeveloped compared to the western side especially the dreaded districts of south and north Praga which both used to be way more dangerous in the 90’s and 2000’s than they are now but are still seen as a backdrop of the city nowadays. When people from other parts of the city think of a person from Praga they usually imagine a violent fan of Legia Warsaw (the football club) who’s whole day consist of going to watch a football game with his friends, getting shitfaced on vodka with his friends and coming back home to beat his wife and kids or alternatively they imagine a gangster wannabe drill rapper
Unfortunately it is not automated system and not protected against falling down on track
@@mklml1 yeh barriers can be good for safety…but I suppose they can detract from the overall design of the station & walls etc. do many people fall or jump onto the tracks in Warsaw? 🫣🚇
It is automated (little known fact), the driver is present but the ride and approach is 100% automatic. The platform screen doors could be a great addition though, accidents sometimes happen even a few times in single week, lol
wanna meet up ? i can be your guide
@@majordiegratow8929 I’m not in Poland 🇵🇱 now, but I’m sure at some point I’ll return to make more videos there 📹
0:25 "within 24 hours of being deleted ticket"
Some brain-dead translation, what a shame!
@@JedrzejP 🤣 great attention to detail! I hadn’t even noticed that 👁️👁️
O tej porze roku to jest gówniana pogoda, ani to zima, ani lato.
@@matrixmannn The UK’s weather 🇬🇧 is pretty all over the place too 😝 sometimes it’s as though all of the seasons have just merged into one! 🤣🌧️🌬️
The M1 line looks poorly designed, especially the plastic entrance in the round. I hope they can make the M1 line more similar to the M2 and the upcoming M3 and M4 lines.
@@Martinswede Yeh the M2 line stations are certainly a lot more snazzy and unique 🤓🤩 I’m intrigued to see what they’ve got planned for the upcoming lines! 🚇
They are actually planning to rework all of old entrances to M1, and have already started with Świętokrzyska and Wilanowska with that
After the Russians dropped an atomic bomb on Warsaw, Germany, as usual, announced that it did not want escalation and would cooperate with Russia.
@@PiotrJaser The “as usual” in this comment made me laugh 🤭💀😄
@@n1ckburt0n Scholz kept repeating that he did not want escalation and therefore he would not give Ukraine the weapons it needed.
Previously, Chancellor Merkel was also a supporter of cooperation with Putin, despite warnings from Poles and Balts.
As usual or as always.
Based and geopolitics pilled Germany. Meanwhile Poland after getting destroyed twice by Germany and Russia still decides to antagonize them both and hope that this time anglosaxons will save us xd. Germany and Rusisa learnt a lesson, Poland didn't.
@@filipzietek5146 hahahah. Rosja wyciągnęła wnioski i chce być wasalem Chin, bo nie rozumie, że XIX wiek się skończył. A Niemcy, niestety dla nas, właśnie wchodzą w spiralę długotrwałych kłopotów gospodarczych wynikających z błędnej polityki Merkel i Scholza.
@@filipzietek5146 geopolitics is such a minefield though 💣 isn’t it? Whereas metros 🚇 so much more fun 😝
Yes, no one in Warsaw refers to the metro lines by the colour. For many years it was just one line so it was known just as "the metro" (except there are no definite articles in Polish so - "metro") and blue was just the colour of the signage in the whole metro system. Then when they'd started building the second line and it was given the red colour scheme, retroactively assigning blue as the colour of the first line.
Maybe you've noticed that the M2 line is being built in chunks of 3-4 stations, sharing similar design.
@@Halfpipesaur That does make sense as it went from only one line to two. I wonder if the way locals refer to the lines will change when there are more of them and journeys could involve more changes. Although I noticed that Polish words for the colours are more syllables so they’re less “snappy” to say than they are in English.
I lived in Seoul 🇰🇷 for a few years and they have a mixture of numbered lines & named lines but it was so much easier to use colours for navigation and say “I’m taking red, orange, yellow & green” 🔴🟠🟡🟢rather than “I’m taking Shunbunbang, Line 3, Suin-Bundang, Line 2” lol 🤪
Yeh I definitely noticed the chunks and the differences in design between them, that’s a nice quirk of M2 I think. My favourite stations were probably all in the same chunk - Ksieçia Janusza, Młynów & Płocka 🚇
This is President Trzaskowski effect on Warsaw metro
typie xdd
@@kazikowski1976 I don’t know anything about him 🥸 but maybe he can come on a metro line adventure with me next time 🚇🇵🇱 lol 😝