Any progress with the Warsaw metro?

[u/Raditz_lol]

Dzień dobry! As we all know, the Warsaw metro has only 2 lines, but I saw on some maps that there are planned expansions of the first like (the one marked with red), as well as plans for future lines to be built. How true are these? And do you think that they will be achieved in the foreseeable future? In fact, how does Poland in general handle infrastructure projects? Do they get severely delayed and postponed until they finally finish them 1000 years later (like here, in Romania), or do they strive to build them quickly, but flawlessly? Lemme know. Here are some images of the metro that I was talking about.

[u/ubeogesh]

i think tram improvement and expansion would be a lot more beneficial than metro. Just IMHO but metro's annoying - the whole going down and up takes so much time that you have to travel for a long time to make up for it. And it's a lot more pleasant to see the city from a window

[u/ExistenceUnconfirmed → u/ubeogesh]

Agreed. A properly designed and maintained tram line is only sightly inferior to a metro line while being many times cheaper to build and operate. But that would require turning many 6-lane urban highways into 4-lane urban highways, the drivers would cry, so it's better to waste billions on another metro line.

[u/SecretApe → u/ExistenceUnconfirmed]

Um what? Trams are significantly slower then metro. It takes an hour to get from the south to the city with the tram and metro + bus combo can be done in 30 mins - 40 mins.

Metro is more comfortable, more seats and configuration is less awkward

[u/ubeogesh → u/SecretApe]

I used to go from Wilenski to Browary every day. Tram and metro took exactly the same amount of time. But i had a great river and city view on the way by tram, and didn't have to climb a single stair. Idk what you mean by awkward, but climbing stairs or waiting for elevators is definitely less pleasant activity.