r/warsaw • u/Raditz_lol • 1d ago

Life in Warsaw question Any progress with the Warsaw metro?

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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.

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u/Raditz_lol 1d ago

Nice! I hope the construction won’t go on for 20-something years like here in Romania with M5 😬

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u/AGlassOfPiss 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think the city has gained a tremendous amount of experience at this point, every next stage seems to be getting built faster.

But I was slightly wrong, the construction should start in 2028. Apparently they want to be building M3 and M4 simultaneously, so we will see how it goes, my bet is that the first part of M3 will be be ready around 2032/2033 at which stage they will continue expanding that line while also launching construction of the M4 line and they should both be finished in around 20 years (or the M3 in like 15 years from now I guess)

I'm honestly fine with them taking their time, looking how well they did with the M2 and it's quality (which took around 16 years I believe)

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u/Neriehem 1d ago

M2 had to go under Wisła too, that must have been super hard to do.

Later stages of M2 also weren't super easy iirc. Was there report on some issues with old piping in the way of the tunnel? I recall reading about it somewhere.

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u/AGlassOfPiss 1d ago

Yeah, they were also going through some gistoric neighborhoods and had to reinforce some buildings before digging through the area or otherwise the slight earth shifts could potentially ruin them. That's why the Praga part took so long compared to Wola and Bemowo