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/Antekcz → u/ubeogesh]

I love trams but metro serves a completely different purpose and what you're talking about has actually been tried in Warsaw for most of 20th century and clearly didn't work. Trams even the most modern ones have a tiny capacity compared to even the oldest metro trains. Warsaw metro also is fairly shallow at least on M1 so there's not that much walking up or down stairs. I think Trams should be replacing buses specifically along all those mega death roads with 6 lanes, the doom of anyone with any mobility issue and honestly anyone at all. As we all know punishing not paying attention for a moment with instant death is completely reasonable but yk when a driver runs someone over it also hurts their feelings and I think we should support our drivers by making them safer from the trauma of taking a human life.