Is Warsaw’s M2 the Funkiest Metro Line in Europe?

[@n1ckburt0n]

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 📍🤓

[@xxxxxx400]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@xxxxxx400 omg that sounds awesome 🤩 dunno how I missed that! (I’m blaming the cold 🤧🤣)

[@wiktorm9858]

@@xxxxxx400 wow!

[@moonanoke9872]

Wow good to know! I'm from Warsaw and I didn't know that

[@pamietamGryWpodchody]

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.

[@xxxxxx400]

@ pog mo thoin

[@Polifromia]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 😝

[@vipcypr8368]

As a daily commuter. Yeah, it is great to only see a color and instantly know where are you rn.

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

You said “rondo daszyńskiego” perfectly!❤

[@n1ckburt0n]

Thanks 🤩 I’m so proud of myself & Google translate 🦜 on our video editing partnership 😄

[@kubugamer25]

Yeah, but "Księcia Janusza" wasn't really pronounced that good... P.S.: wth is "Święto Krzyśka"???

[@n1ckburt0n]

Try a few of these…”Worcestershire”, “Aberystwyth”, “Loughborough”….then try and say a sentence in Polish with one of them in the middle. See how smooth and accurate you are before being a smarty pants in the comments 😉

[@hottszamp0n]

@@kubugamer25 why does that matter? in my opinion he said it perfectly fine, you can understand it clearly so what's the problem? polish itself is really hard to pronounce so educate yourself and get off youtube as you're a still kid

[@mewosh_]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🤣

[@pankox_pl214]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@pankox_pl214 such a cool contrast that it’s so quiet whilst still being a part of the biggest city 🚇 🇵🇱

[@Tianke]

Szwedzka, Trocka, Zacisze and Targówek are all very seldom used. Szwedzka is right at the edge of Praga Północ district and it's a bit tricky to get to on foot as the district is bordered by train lines and huge roads. The other three are all in fairly low density residential, where many people have cars.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@Tianke Yeh definitely seemed to be less going on there but would be cool to see them above ground at some point 🥸🚇 maybe when they add the extra stations to M2 I’ll do an updated trip 🇵🇱🙌🏼

[@1tsCl0udi3s]

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!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🙌🏼

[@pz6677]

actually the original Rondo Daszyńskiego-Dworzec Wileński stations don't have neons, they look alike with a similar design/different color. Stations to the west were built recently but I love the neons. Stations further east were built at a different time also.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@pz6677 yeh I love the neons too, so cool! 😎😍

[@MrsDanceXD]

I’ve been living by Metro Mlynow station for the last 5 years (almost), so they were not built this recently. However, the north-eastern extension might have been built around 2023

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@MrsDanceXD Great location to live in, I really liked that area 😎

[@nuuskamuikkunen407]

Święto Kryśka. Patronka wszystkich podróżujących metro M2. XD

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@nuuskamuikkunen407 Clearly I must’ve been more accurate on the pronunciation of that station on the M1 video than in this one 🤯🔫🤣

[@mlodykonieczko5770]

@@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.

[@fishoutofwater7743]

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!"

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@fishoutofwater7743 Thank you for translating them all 😎🙌🏼 such an important message & great that they’ve lasted so long there! 🧠

[@tenaciousinvestigator4940]

@@n1ckburt0n I am kinda surprised it's been there for so long. The mental health treatment sector to this day is pretty underfunded and is still often stigmatised. Basically, if someone in the class has a mental illness, they are likely to get bullied for it, I saw it happen a few times. It's sad to see.

[@mewosh_]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 ☠️🤣

[@kFY514]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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! 🚇

[@Stanislaw10]

​​​@@n1ckburt0n These 3 stations to Karolin will be the ugliest and most depressing stations on the entire line. You can check the visualisation by googling "Metro Karolin".The dark gray station is Karolin the white is Chrzanów and the light gray is Lazurowa.

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

From what I heard from different publicity events, Stadion also has additional platforms to accomodate the rush of football fans after a game.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@emberthecatgirl8796 That would make a lot of sense 😎🏟️⚽️

[@arkadiuszrenc1498]

16:40 Around the station Zacisze are almost only single family homes and overall low density of people. It was probably built because a direct route between Trocka and Kondratowicza would have to go through a pretty big cemetery called Cmentarz Bródnowski

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@arkadiuszrenc1498 I’m so interested in Zacisze above ground now that so many people said it’s very quiet/different to the surrounding areas 👻 nobody else has mentioned the cemetery 🪦 makes sense that they’d avoid routing through that 🥸

[@JanTheAnimatorActual]

"Święto Krzyśka" gave me a laugh. Great video! :DDD

[@n1ckburt0n]

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 🙊

[@xxxxxx400]

I heard Świento Kryśka

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@xxxxxx400 I’m guessing that must mean something else 😝💀 think I pronounced that station name better in the M1 video 🙊

[@xxxxxx400]

@@n1ckburt0n it can be translate as Saint Christine but in patois-think of an old woman from a remote village 😉

[@xxxxxx400]

@@n1ckburt0n it can be translated as Saint Cristine but in patois. Imagine an old woman from a remote village ;)

[@franekgruca9905]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 😋

[@katharina...]

Your perfect pronunciations melt my little Polish heart 🥰

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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! 😐”🤣🤪

[@Margitha]

You should visit Warsaw in summer. The parks are much more welcoming then. Thanx for the trip :)

[@n1ckburt0n]

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! 🇵🇱

[@marsjaninzmarsa]

​​@@n1ckburt0nyou need to see Łazienki Królewskie then, we have the domesticated peacocks just wandering around.

[@TrzyElektrody]

@@n1ckburt0n Good to hear it. Greetings from Warsaw.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@TrzyElektrody Thanks very much! 😎🇵🇱

[@mariusztyranski5845]

4:32 As a Polish, I always thought that station announcements are spoken rather slowly and even a little hypercorrect 😂

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@mariusztyranski5845 hahah 🤣🤭 definitely not for foreigners! But also I think it’s that they are quite quiet compared to the train noise on much of the line 😝

[@agax1351]

when I first noticed this video I thought "why would someone like to record anything about Warsaw metro?" but I started watching and I enjoyed it, well done 👍 Really good, I need to check your other videos 🙂

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@agax1351 Aww thanks a lot! 🤩 Great that you enjoyed it, particularly as you probably weren’t expecting to! 😍🚇

[@jakubfabisiak9810]

at 12:37, if you'd turn back towards the metro exit visible behind you, then taken a right, you'd have arrived at the Copernicus Science Center on your right, and Elektrownia Powiśle (Powiśle Power Plant) - an old power plant converted into a pretty funky (and expensive) shopping mall.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@jakubfabisiak9810 Omg that sounds so cool 🤩 nobody else has mentioned that either! I think I might do an updated video of this line in a year or two when they add the new stations cos there are so many extra interesting details that people have pointed out in the comments 🥸😎 thanks!

[@myszula]

I lived in Warsaw my entire life (I'm from the Bemowo station part of the city) and I've never actually ventured further than the Stadion station, so it was fun seeing how the other part of the line looks like! I even learned some things about what the stations' designs reference, since I've never bothered to actually check lol

[@n1ckburt0n]

Haha 🤣 yeh sometimes it’s easy to miss things that are closer to home, I can be like that with things nearby in the UK 🇬🇧 cos I’m more interested in going abroad ✈️ Glad you enjoyed the video 🤩 definitely worth checking out some of the places/stations at the other end of the line if you get the time 😎🚇

[@mar.real.]

lmao same but im from the bródno side XD i only realised from this video that i havent been at the further stations

[@n1ckburt0n]

@mar.real. 🤣 it’s easy to not explore certain parts of a city you live in when you have specific places/areas you always go to I guess 😝 I’m happy the video contained something new for so many people that actually live in Warsaw 😎🤭🇵🇱

[@maciejz7892]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🚇

[@Tianke]

You missed Dworzec Wileński :) it's a very important transit hub for the east, it has suburban trains, buses and trams, and a shopping centre. It's also near the first train station to ever open in Warsaw (now non-existent)

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@Tianke I feel a bit bad for poor Dworzec Wileński getting brutally erased from this video 😿🤭 will probably do an updated video on this line in a year or two when they add the new stations 🚉 as people have given so many great tips on other things to include 😎

[@dzejrid]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@dzejrid It’s a great story though 😝😎 even if it probably wasn’t fun for you at the time lol 😂 Would make a fun KZbin 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 🤩🇵🇱🚇

[@dzejrid]

@@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.

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

You missclicked the fast travel menu

[@karollwanga9895]

Much apprieciate that you are trying to pronounce polish words, its a really nice gesture and your pronounciation is really great for a foreigner so keep going!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@karollwanga9895 Thanks, Karol 😎🙌🏼 I love getting comments like this 🤩 very encouraging!

[@alexonline69420]

I laughed when you talked about the „menacing looking entrance” and „supervillain’s evil lair” of Rondo Daszyńskiego. The area surrounding the roundabout is the new business district, which some people call Isengard - a nod to the old business district which was widely, and humorously, called Mordor on Domaniewska [street]. So the menacing look fits perfectly!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@alexonline69420 Haha yeh I laughed to myself when I originally thought it to be honest 🤣😝 it does look menacing yet very funky! 👹 Loving this explanation and how it all kinda fits with the menacing theory 🥸😂 nobody else has mentioned this so far either 🖊️ I love all this extra info/backstory!

[@szymonkosowski1154]

Really missed out on Szwedzka, it looks "basic" inside, but the entrance is super cool, a glass/metal shape placed by the wall of a red brick building of an old factory - my personal favourite!

[@n1ckburt0n]

Omg 🤩 that sounds so cool 👌🏻 I couldn’t have predicted that from the inside of the station lol but I’m making a list of extra points of interest people have made (nobody else mentioned this yet) & I’m gonna do an updated adventure when M2 adds the new stations 🚉 😍

[@BodyAndSol96]

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 😊

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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! 🚇🥳

[@___lzcat]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

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! 😎

[@candelas31]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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!

[@marsjaninzmarsa]

​@@n1ckburt0nyeah, the Warsaw cyclist infrastructure has developed tremendously over 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 of are free of charge - the default mode of transportation for many of us on such short distances :D

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@marsjaninzmarsa omg that’s definitely a great tip for next time I visit! 🤩

[@mllenessmarie]

I don't know why it's so entertaining, but it is, immensely. Subscribed!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@mllenessmarie Thank you so much, really happy you were entertained! 🙌🏼🥳😀 You clearly have incredible taste in KZbin videos hahah 🤣

[@annaonyszko]

What a lovely video. Thank you for showing our amazing m2 metro line! Btw, some stations, starting in Rondo Daszynskiego, were designed by a famous Polish artist Wojciech Fangor

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@annaonyszko Thanks very much, really appreciate the positive feedback 🙌🏼🤩 ahh yes, I did research about Fangor (almost put it in the voiceover) definitely some very eye-catching stations! 🇵🇱🚇

[@chinesespy9518]

Wow, great vid man. I really wanted to explore Warsaws metro but never had a chance. Now that it is a holiday break in Poland I'm going to go there and see for myself. Thanks for being a reminder and a push that was much needed!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@chinesespy9518 Thank you 🤩 so much, love that! 😍 There’s so many extra details about the stations/areas that people have pointed out in these comments too…making me wanna go back as well haha 🤣 have a great time exploring! 🚇🇵🇱

[@Mela222PL]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

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 👻

[@felisenpai9625]

@@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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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! 📱😱

[@amadeosendiulo2137]

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.

[@marekrondo9701]

No i jak jest wspólna, to pieszy ma pierwszeństwo.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@amadeosendiulo2137 congrats 🥳 on paying such close attention to the video 🥸 but, do you see my legs? 🦵🏼 Maybe I have wheels 🚲🤣

[@LesLehistani]

Hi Nick, you made an interesting video about the Warsaw Subway System. Thank you for an interesting tour of the city, also visiting the subway stations. It must be admitted that trains run regularly every few minutes, and the stations are modern, functional and clean. Good job. Keep it up.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@LesLehistani Hi Les, thanks very much for the positive feedback 😎 really appreciate it! 🙌🏼 So glad you found the video interesting & yeh it’s a great modern metro system, very cool! 🚇

[@Mitchellski]

I've been living in Warsaw for 2,5 years now and it's the first time I see most of those! I had no idea they were so colorful & diverse. Back when I lived here as a kid there was only one line ("THE metro") which started on Plac Wilsona.. Amazing, gonna take the wife for a romantic cruise following your recommendation! Hope you come back to Warsaw & good luck with the channel, subsribed! 👍

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@Mitchellski Thanks very much! 😎🙌🏼 Yeh I’m definitely planning to do an update on M2 when they add the new stations (2026 I think 💭) because the comments on this gave so many extra great tips of what to see above the line. I love visiting Poland 🇵🇱 too, so will come up with some more video ideas to do there 🤓 I hope your wife enjoys the romantic subway cruise, sounds like a perfect date idea! 😄♥️🚇

[@slawomirbianketti889]

Thanks for recording your journey along the M2 line! I used to live somewhere between the last two stations, but emigrated to the UK before this entire line was completed, so I'm glad you took time to have a walk in the park I spent most of my childhood! BTW the name Bródno comes from the Brodnia River that used to flow nearby - now it is Bródnowski Canal. Also, in the woods near Zacisze, one of the first settlements in the area of today's Warsaw was established in IX century! You can find remains of that settlements in the woods between Kondratowicza and Zacisze stations. I wish you showed the surroundings of Dworzec Wileński station - quite lively spot with the shopping mall over the train station (interchange spot to suburban train line), beautiful Orthodox church and Zoo garden nearby, and an interchange spot for trams and buses to the Warsaw's Old Town across the river ..but you're excused for feeling poorly. I wish you more happy journeys and videos along the way.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@slawomirbianketti889 Thanks very much!😎 Great information about that end of the line 🥸🤩 nobody has mentioned any of that so far in the comments. Yeh 🤒 not feeling great did hamper this video a bit tbh I would’ve liked to go deeper into more of the areas in an ideal world ☠️ but at least I have a reason to return when they open new stations/lines 🚇🇵🇱

[@allanhfchin]

Greetings from NYC! I lived in Poland in 2018-19, mostly in Warsaw, and rented an apartment on Targowa Street (in a pre WW2 building, btw!) about a block away from the Dworzec Wileński metro station. At the time Wileński was the eastern terminal and the extension was still being built. I absolutely love Poland, Warsaw, and where I lived in Praga North, and I would come back in a heartbeat. Above the station is a not too large mall, Galeria Wileńska, connected to the suburban rail station, with a Starbucks and a Carrefour, which was my favorite place to get groceries. Unfortunately the mall seemed to have closed local businesses, but it didn't seem desolate while I was there. I also agree with you that while Warsaw seems to be sprawling, it's still entirely walkable and bikeable anywhere you go - they didn't forget pedestrians, and I often walked everywhere, even when I could have taken the metro or the tram! 🙂

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@allanhfchin Sounds like a great area to live in & yeh Warsaw is just such an interesting city in general 😎🙌🏼 totally walkable and bikeable despite the rather large distances in some areas 😛 I love NYC btw! Went there on a college trip when I was 17 🇺🇸 had the best time and the people there we SO friendly (and kept asking us to repeat everything so they could hear more of our British accents 😂). I’d definitely be up for doing some NYC subway adventures in the future 🚇 if you have any insider tips of lesser known/quirky things to see and do 🤓 that’d be awesome!

[@allanhfchin]

@@n1ckburt0n Re NYC, sure thing! If you have the time, there are a few different themes you can do. Subway connections to what we call the Outer Boroughs, meaning to the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. There are fantastic ethnic neighborhoods, like Arthur Ave Little Italy in the Bronx, a South Asian neighborhood in Jackson Heights, Queens, various Chinatowns in Queens(Flushing) and Brooklyn, a trip to famous Coney Island on the subway. Even Staten Island has a one line train line that's technically not the subway, but is included on the subway map. Visit museums and parks and sports venues outside of touristy Manhattan. You may also want to explore the "other" subway, the PATH trains that go between Manhattan and New Jersey. If you also cover transportation modes other than the subway, I would check out our commuter railroads, Metro-North and the LIRR/Long Island Rail Road, the Roosevelt Island Tram (a cable car), the NYC Ferry (some routes go quite far!), and the Staten Island Ferry, which is free. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! 🙂

[@pafilos3176]

Just became your 1000th subscriber ha!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@pafilos3176 Omg, awesome!🤩🥳 Thanks very much 😎🙌🏼

[@wiktorm9858]

Stations are ultra cool, I like travelling through them. So proud of our state in these moments! 🎉

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@wiktorm9858 Yeh you definitely should be proud of it 🇵🇱🚇 this is such an interesting set of stations to explore! 😎

[@incognit-o9098]

Great vid ❤

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@incognit-o9098 Thank you! 🤩😍🙌🏼

[@kasiabasiaa]

The big bold lettering of the oldest 7 M2 stations was designed by a late famous op-art artist, Wojciech Fangor - only Pole to ever hold a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. Loved the video!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@kasiabasiaa Thanks very much! 🤩 Really happy you enjoyed it 🙌🏼😎 Ahh yes, I read a bit about Fangor when I was writing the audio script, probably should’ve included him really 😋 at least he has left his mark on so many stations 🚇 🇵🇱

[@thatdudethatcommentsstuff]

You could really make a video on the brilliant designs of tram networks in Poland, including Warsaw. Love from Bielany, Warsaw 💖

[@n1ckburt0n]

@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 🤩

[@axing_]

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!

[@n1ckburt0n]

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 🙌🏼

[@bogdangruszka9407]

Cenne informacje . Jedno zastrzeżenie, Polska nigdy nie należała do ZSRR .

[@matrixmannn]

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.

[@leno_o17]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🏙️🥸

[@inomi1337]

Nice video!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@inomi1337 Thank you! 🤩🙏🏻

[@MaciejowPL]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🤔😀

[@MaciejowPL]

@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

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@MaciejowPL an airport connection ✈️ would be amazing!

[@MaciejowPL]

@n1ckburt0n on Stadion you can hop onto suburban train (SKM S2) and get there that way, second connection so the Northerners and Southerners can have it as easy as us East-West railway axis people would be good though

[@annag9715]

It's nice to hear such a good opinions about my city :)

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@annag9715 Thank you! 🤩 I had a great time there! 🚇🇵🇱

[@annag9715]

@@n1ckburt0n People living here do not always appreciate the advantages of this city, beauties

[@mareksicinski3726]

My favourite look out of the colourful stations, Rondo ONZ - most ‘tasteful’ etc.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@mareksicinski3726 yeh I can see that many people would prefer the more neutral background 😝 my thought was just…if you’re gonna go with huge colourful lettering, you may as well go for a bold wall colour as the other stations on that part of the line have 🚇🇵🇱

[@alexdiels466]

2:20 I don’t know exactly how to describe it but it just feels weird and awesome to see someone taking the path you are taking very often. This mall is called Wola Park and I used to be there every single Saturday. Now it’s less often but still at least once a month.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@alexdiels466 haha 🤣 yeh I can imagine…sometimes KZbin does suggest me videos of people exploring me hometown and I’m like “oh, they went there…how random, but also cool” 😎 lol

[@ElGriegoTravels]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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! ✈️

[@xxxxxx400]

@@ElGriegoTravels don’t you think visiting Eastern Europe is very risky this time? Ukraine and Russia are in war and Belarus is very hostile.

[@Robertino12]

A co chcesz zwiedzać w Rosji

[@marekrondo9701]

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.

[@svaty_peter]

@@xxxxxx400Can you please elaborate what exactly is dangerous in EU countries like Poland or Czechia for example?

[@_Hellscaqe]

9:09 Most Polish scenery ever. On right: advanced, futuristic, clean skyscrapers. On left: some dilapidated hovel with graffiti ''life is beautiful'' xD. Jee, I love Poland.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@_Hellscaqe Hahah I love that contrast too, so cool! 🤩😍🇵🇱

[@wolfsberg88]

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!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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!

[@wolfsberg88]

@@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?

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🥸

[@wolfsberg88]

@@n1ckburt0n Yeah, if the humor will include singing Cascada for example then I'm in 🤣 Definitely, I would recommend Poznań over summer or spring time, or for the Xmas market. I've just been recently and it looked lovely, but I'm probably biased. And yes, plenty of 🚃 to use! Oh, lucky you to have had the opportunity to work abroad! And my next guess was actually going to be Newcastle. See, I told you I was bad - going from Manchester to Newcastle... 😅😅 Anyway, keep on posting! Looking forward to more clips 😊

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@wolfsberg88 haha I’m sure future videos are gonna include that level of randomness 😂🤪 Newcastle is fairly close (about 1 hour north), closer than Manchester…but the Geordie accent (Newcastle) is a very specific/strong one 😋…as you’ve probably experienced, UK accents can vary a lot even if the places are only 1 hour away from each other 😂

[@TheBlackRangerPL]

I'm not sure if going to the malls (both here and the M1 video) and then skipping the very core of the city (Politechnika in the first one and Nowy Świat in this one) is a good way of showing off the city, but you do you! I hope you had fun staying in Warsaw :)

[@n1ckburt0n]

Fair point, I do wish I’d included more in both videos in those sections you mentioned but that wasn’t really deliberate “leave out” either time. I am gonna try and improve future videos based on constructive comments though 😎 Nowy Świat did get credited for its purple UFO-ness 🛸 in this vid. 😝 It’s more that the malls were something to show at the beginning station or two on each line. Beginning of videos are really important on KZbin & the end of metro lines naturally tend to have less to see. If you start the video like “here’s the first station…nothing here”…”also at the second station…nothing here”…viewers won’t even get to the middle of the video 🤣🤪 By the time I’m in the middle of the line it’s a question of making sure I can get the whole line finished to make a logical video. It takes a lot longer to do in real time than it looks in a 20 min edited video😀 M1 - I thought swerving slightly off the line to show the Old Town was a better use of time and more interesting to potential Warsaw visitors than Politechnika 🤭 but I guess there’s a couple of cool things there? Overall, I did have a lot of fun in Warsaw 🇵🇱😎 even whilst ill 🤧 lol. I’d definitely like to come back & maybe do something on the trams or when more metro stations/lines get added 🚇 Polish 🇵🇱 audience on these has been generally really engaged, sees things in detail, and supportive too, so it’s somewhere that’s obviously great for KZbinrs to make videos 😀

[@jakubszczudowski4661]

​@@n1ckburt0n Nowy Świat is definitely a "must-see" outside, in the most historical part of the city & with some really nice parks (i.e. the University park). To name just a few landmarks within ca. 0.5km from the station, you can see the Presidential Palace, University of Warsaw, Academy of Fine Arts, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and a ton of different museums, including the National Museum. All this while walking along the most representative road/avenue in the City, "Trakt Królewski". Looking forward to seeing more on your channel! :D

[@n1ckburt0n]

Thanks 🤩 sounds very cool tbh, maybe I’ll do an updated M2 adventure once they add the new stations 😉 I did have a lot of fun checking it out even though I was feeling pretty rough haha 🤒

[@felisenpai9625]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 😇

[@pz6677]

ah I wish you got off at Dworzec Wileński, there's a couple of beautiful things there to see xx

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@pz6677 Yeh I really wish I hadn’t been ill 🤒 on this filming day, would’ve definitely got off at more stops. Planning to do an updated video on M2 when they add more stations 🚇 What are the best things to see at Dworzec Wileński? 😎

[@JkGozdzik]

Your speech is so peaceful you could be taking about blue almonds and I'd feel no stress of life

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@JkGozdzik That’s such a nice compliment 🗣️🤩 thank you! I’ll see if I can somehow weave blue almonds into the next video 😉🤣

[@jacekwesoowski1484]

In Warsaw we're used to calling lines by their numbers, and when we use colours, it's for something else (namely to differentiate between regular and express buses). But using colours is fine, it's not like I wouldn't know what you mean. In my case I like the "bland" stations in Targówek best, I guess because I just like muted patterns. The ones near the west end are a close second, though. If you'dre curious how these designs hold up over time, you can take a look at M1, which was opened in the 90s. The city takes good care of the metro infrastructure, because it's the city's prestige investment. When local elections are coming up and the local government is trying to get re-elected, they always put up a lot of ads about how the metro is great and keeps growing. So, you know, they need to keep it shiny. ;-) I don't vote for them but at least I can agree about this one thing. As for the traffic, both ends of M2 are densely populated. These areas are sometimes called "sleeping districts" because you don't have many reasons to go there unless you or your friends live there. Which means traffic depends on the time of day, since it's mainly people commuting between work and home. By the way, it's always nice to see someone take a look at the metro in Warsaw and not hate it. Compared to other cities, our public transport is just plain average. It's there for you when you need it, it's affordable, and it gets the job done, so people kind of take it for granted, and only notice when something breaks (which it does, because come on). Also, good job with the pronunciation. Your "Księcia Janusza" is better than my "Worcestershire".

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@jacekwesoowski1484 Wow 🤩 such a detailed comment, thanks! 😎 Yeh I read the colours are also more syllables in Polish so it’s less “snappy” to say. I was a bit bemused how a few people couldn’t make the colour connections, considering all the station signs and line maps are blue on M1 and red on M2 🤭😝 sometimes there’s a small % of viewers who just want to find something to correct though I think ☑️ I can see your point about the “bland” stations definitely 🚇 they’re probably classier in a way & could stand the test of time better. It’s good that the city makes a solid effort to keep it all shiny ✨ though! I’m really excited to see what they do with the new stations/lines. Yeh I think the Warsaw metro is amazing tbh. I like the contrast between the two lines & also M2 has so many memorable stations. Particularly to make a video about, some lines in other cities can be difficult cos there just isn’t much of interest you can say about the designs. Haha 🤣 yeh “Worcestershire” is a very tricky one. I got mixed reviews for my pronunciations, which is fine, but I did try my best with them 😎…again, I think a small % of viewers just watch KZbin as if they’re a teacher grading your homework 🤣🫢 and they get a buzz from correcting something 😋 Really enjoyed reading your comment, lots to unpack! 🚇🤓

[@justdriving9286]

Fun fact about this neons. Inspiration for that is history - in Warsaw in PRL there were many of them around the city.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@justdriving9286 Very cool inspiration 😎 I really loved all the neon signs, definitely added to the funky vibe of the line! 🚇

[@hildonek8152]

i made some english pronunciations of M2 metro stations (i'm not a lingwist so probably i mest up somethink and also they are only my interpretations): Bemowo - Bemovo Ulrychów -Ulryhuv Księcia Janusza - Kshiencia janusha Młynów - Mwynuv Płocka - Pwocka Rondo Daszyńskiego - Rondo Dashyniskiego Rondo ONZ - Rondo ONZ Świętokrzyska - sivientokshyska Nowy Świat Uniwersytet - Novy Siviat Universytet Centrum Nauki Kopernik - Kentrum Nauki Kopernik Stadion Narodowy - Stadion Narodovy Dworzec Wileński - Dvogec (in this scenario i used "G" like hard "z" or in polish "rz" or "ż") Vileniski Szwedzka - Shvecka Targówek Mieszkaniowy - Targuvek Mieshkaniovy Trocka - trocka Zacisze - Zachishe Kondratowicza -Kondratovicha Bródno - Brudno

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@hildonek8152 Wow 🤩 great effort doing all of those! Thanks 🙏🏻 I think there are even more sounds in some of the words that English speakers wouldn’t naturally say, unless we knew about it…for example in “Płocka” we would need to know the “w” sound from the “ł” but we would still naturally say “wock” (as in a wok or rhymes with “sock”) whereas the actual sound is more like “Pwotska” because of the “c” being a more “ts” sound 🔈 at least that’s how it sounds to me when I make Google translate say it anyway 🤣🤭🤪 A lot of your interpretations look really good though 😎

[@fengwei9403]

Not sure if anyone commented this yet, but the patterns on the last three stations - Zacisze, Kondratowicza and Bródno - reveal silhouettes of famous buildings from that area! You can kind of see it at 17:40 when the camera points down the tunnel - the big silhouette betweent the orange and yelllow stripes is the district's town hall!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@fengwei9403 Great fact! 😎 Yeh it was mentioned once in one of the comment threads but not the bit about the town hall, very cool! 😋 I love all the extra little details on this line 🙌🏼🤩

[@RaindeadHiro]

Warsaw is just a damn beautiful city. And the ticket prices are so nice.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@RaindeadHiro Yeh it’s such a great city & this is amazing value 🎫💰 for getting around the entire place! 🚇🇵🇱

[@prk2543]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@prk2543 Ahh ok thanks 🙏🏻 for adding that…I’d clocked the roundabout connection but not the UN bit 🤓

[@darekmisiuajtis9004]

The "Red line" ran from Rondo Daszyńskiego to Dworzec Wileński only as fas as 7 Yeats ago I think. Then it was extended to Płocka - Trocka on 2019 and only recently - late 2022 - got the whole line working. The "bland" ones - as well as the rest of the eastern part - are what You would traditionally call suburbs, so they see most activity before 9am and after 5pm. Except for Zacisze :D that place is positioned in a way that both Trocka and Kondratowicza - neigbour stations - have better access to buses/walkways. If You belive the politicunts come back on ~10 years and revisit to include 2 more lines :D

[@n1ckburt0n]

This is a good roundup of it all pretty much 😎 I do really like that you can see the differences in style between each section of the line that was added at each stage 🚇 I really wanna explore Zacisze above ground now that everyone said it is so quiet 👻🤣 I’d definitely like to come back to Warsaw and make more videos there, love the city! 🇵🇱 Hopefully they get some new stations/lines built soon 🤓🙌🏼

[@vladsafronov7642]

You did Dworzec Wileński dirty, man... There's a small train station there + trams + buses + a shopping mall + an Orthodox church. I've transferred at Wileniak countless times :)

[@n1ckburt0n]

Haha 🤣🫢 it wasn’t intentional, I was just doing the best I could whilst actually not feeling very well 🤒 lol was the only day I had in Warsaw to film M2. Probably do an updated video when they add the new stations to this line 🚇🥸

[@cathulhu3772]

10:46 - my block :D Funny enough that i've never used M2 xD Maybe i'll give it a try :D

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@cathulhu3772 that’s a cool looking block 😎✌🏼 yeh definitely give M2 a whirl! 🚇

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

15:27 Bit sad you didn’t get out at Dworzec Wileński. It’s a stop that’s very near to an endpoint commuter rail station with a cool design that also incorporates a shopping mall.

[@n1ckburt0n]

Same tbh 🤒 I would’ve totally got out at more stations if I’d been feeling 100% on the filming day, just bad luck I guess 😝 I’ll definitely come back and check out the additions to the line & areas I missed in future 🚇 🇵🇱

[@ewacisek8085]

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

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🤣🐯

[@neverbrick]

it's true for all 3

[@hubertwaliszewski5740]

YES.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@hubertwaliszewski5740 Definitely the funkiest 🚇🙌🏼🇵🇱

[@Lusinski19]

I was interested in public transport, especially metro, so here is some things about the metro stations The metro line was opened in 2015 - the first section was from "Dworzec Wileński" to "Rondo Daszyńskiego" From both sides they were extended to "Trocka" and "Księcia Janusza" The final extension was to "Bródno" and "Bemowo" with bemowo being the most recent one There are 2 stations being made being from the west side after bemowo The stations were made by different companies and in a different time period so that may explain why the stations are so funky Also, at 14:22 you can see a platform made for M3 16:03: When I saw the tilte of the video, I thought of "Zacisze", its the only station that is surrounded by houses and a quiet area. Its the reason why not many people enter and exit at this station. Zacisze is also next to a forest. "Szwedzka", is around a 2 minute walk to a train station called "Warszawa Targówek" and if you cross the train tracks there is also a place with houses.

[@n1ckburt0n]

Lots of really interesting information there 🤩🥸 thanks! M2 is such a great line to explore, love it 😻

[@Szylepiel]

You should have gone out to see neighbourhood at Zacisze station, you would definitely be surprised by how different it is to all other you have seen!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@Szylepiel I definitely regret that after a few people said it’s so different/quiet 🤫 👻 I wish I had all of this local knowledge from the comments before shooting the video 😝

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

11:52 There is also a direct passage between M1 and M2 metro lines, but the metro administration put up a ton of signage to direct the traffic through the shared basement level instead. It doesn’t work.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@emberthecatgirl8796 Hmm 🤔 that sounds messy 🤪 I don’t remember transferring between the lines (although I must’ve done at some point)

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

The m2 line is looking very modern

[@n1ckburt0n]

Yeh it’s pretty snazzy for the most part 🤩🚇🎨

[@alexdiels466]

I don’t know about the entire thing but I can tell you for sure that the first three ones don’t have more than 4 years.

[@werth7113]

4:28 Księcia Janusza. For english it would sound like Kshenchya Yanoosha

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@werth7113 Oh yeh that is actually helpful seeing it written out like that 😎🙌🏼

[@werth7113]

@n1ckburt0n but it's not exactly perfect. I wanted to write it somewhat phonetically

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@werth7113 yeh I think it’s just a difficult combination of letters/sounds for English speakers to process and say accurately however much we are helped with it lol 🤭🤪

[@pz6677]

The Zacisze station (which means "quiet/cozy place") you had to yourself is the least busy station anywhere in Warsaw. The city deeply regrets including it on the metro since it's a waste of money xD

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@pz6677 Haha yeh I wish I’d known the English translation of Zacisze at the time 🤫🧘🏻‍♂️, definitely would’ve gone above ground to see it! I wonder how much money was “wasted” on it 🫢 at least it’s on the way to the final two stations, so they didn’t take a huge detour to include it 🤓

[@bunjection]

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')

[@n1ckburt0n]

@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 😎

[@bunjection]

@@n1ckburt0n that too! keep up the good work!!!

[@JoATTech]

I'm kinda surprised these stations are so different. And they are quite interesting if someone line more modern design :D.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@JoATTech Yeh I was surprised too 😎 but it made for a cool adventure & M2 is definitely one of the most interesting modern lines I’ve seen 🙌🏼🚇

[@Thurden_mixd]

9:44 "and very hard to pronounce" almost nails it unlike some others ;)

[@n1ckburt0n]

@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 😝🤪

[@Thurden_mixd]

@@n1ckburt0n lol

[@candace8281]

im polish watching this while being to warsaw once while m2 wasnt open kinda fun

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@candace8281 Haha nice 🙌🏼 did it make you want to visit Warsaw again and explore on M2? 🚇 🇵🇱

[@wojciechstolarski2294]

Super wideo. Informacja dla turystów. Bilet dobowy pozwala nie tylko "zaliczyć" wszystkie stacje metra ale pozwala na wielokrotne korzystanie z wszystkich tramwai, autobusów, a w ramach obszaru Wspólnego Biletu także z pociągów SKM, KM oraz WKD. Stacja Metro Stadion jest tak rozbudowana bo oprócz metra obsluguje także pociągi miejskie SKM i podmiejskie KM, na których ten bilet jest ważny i upoważnia do podróżowania. Ma także już wybudowane perony dla przyszłej linii metra M3.

[@n1ckburt0n]

Thanks a lot 🤩 yes, I also used the other modes of transport 🚈 🚎 on the daily ticket, just not in this particular video…very efficient system overall 😎 Great information about Stadion Metro station, makes sense why it has extra platforms/space for the arrival of M3 🚇

[@waterman7082]

the drawing right next to the big graffitti at 9:07 translated into english means "life is beautiful", also there's 2 more metro lines (M3, the shorter of the two, and M4, the longer of the two, which is similiar to M1) and a metro line M5 planned.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@waterman7082 ahh thanks for translating it! 🤓🥳 yeh I’m really excited to see what they’re gonna do with the new lines/stations design-wise 🙌🏼🚇🇵🇱

[@andrzejmikolajczyk9561]

Hope you really enjoyed your Warsaw stay :) Today, the weather is REALLY bad.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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!☀️🇵🇱

[@the_kombinator]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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? 🇰🇷🚇

[@the_kombinator]

@@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!)

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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!

[@the_kombinator]

@@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.

[@serceband]

After seeing Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, London and many more, I honestly think Warsaw's metro could be the nicest and cleanest in Europe. Maybe Stockholm could compete as well

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@serceband Agreed, I love the Warsaw metro!🚇🇵🇱 Haven’t been to Stockholm yet 🇸🇪 but it’s on my list for metro line adventures in 2025 🤓✈️

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

2:31 Which is interesting, since it’s positioned in the innermost “splotch” of suburbs surrounded from the east, west and north by population-dense infrastructure

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@emberthecatgirl8796 lol 😂 I don’t think I’m gonna use the word “suburbs” again after this video cos ppl seem to get mad about it 😝

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

@ Eh, I’m not one to police how you define city zones, just pointing out how Warsaw has big shopping malls baked into the citly like raisins, or chocolate chips.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@emberthecatgirl8796 that’s a very good description about the raisins & chocolate chips 🍪🤓 it wasn’t your comment in particular, just had a few that got prickly over the use of the term “suburbs” so I guess I gotta be careful with it in future 😝

[@Error-mn4el]

hey mate if you are sick i recommend zipping up the jacket you are wearing, maybe a weird thing to comment about but due to how Warsaw was rebuilt the wind is rather powerful and it doesnt help when you are sick (speaking from experience), also as someone who never used the metro its interesting to see it

[@n1ckburt0n]

@Error-mn4el yes 🙌🏼 that does make sense with the cold 🤒 and the wind 💨 it was wild on the filming day! 🤣 I often get too hot and sweaty though so I gotta balance the two as best I can 😋 Glad you found it the video interesting, definitely give the metro a go! 🚇🤩

[@emberthecatgirl8796]

16:47 Where is the music at this point from? I swear I recognise it.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@emberthecatgirl8796 lol 😂 that’s just the station announcement and the sound of the train 🚇 no? 🤔

[@duniabarecka7404]

I think you missed Rondo ONZ station? Overall you are doing a great job with the pronounciation! I only couldn't help myself but giggle at the Świętokrzyska, it came out like Świętokryśka, which made "saint cross' " more into "saint sturdy christine's". "rz" is a tricky one, in polish if those two are bundled they create another sound alike English "sh"

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@duniabarecka7404 Thanks very much 🤩 Rondo ONZ is in there briefly, with the white walls & bold lettering, big roundabout above it 🥸 Haha I think I pronounced Świętokrzyska better in the M1 video 🤭 rolling the “r” sound is often good with foreign languages but not in this particular case lol it is also kinda difficult to remember the Polish word and then narrate smoothly in English 😝 usually one or the other gets a little messed up 🤪

[@duniabarecka7404]

@n1ckburt0n It gets a little firsky 😂 for r though, I think it's the only pronounciation exception (the only I can think of). General guideline is whenever there is anything atypical around "z", like a consonant in front of it, it's time to get suspicious. sz - literal "sh", rz - harder "sh" closer to g from george, ż - g from george... It's the z who is the little prankster

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@duniabarecka7404 haha love this explanation! 🤩👨🏻‍🏫 I’ll be watching out for that prankster in future 😉

[@birotariusintaberna818]

👍 👍 for getting Rondo Daszyńskiego 95% right. Impressive for an Anglophone.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@birotariusintaberna818 Thanks very much 😎🙌🏼 I’ll take 95% haha…Google translate is gonna be mad at me for not getting it 100% though 💀🤣

[@katharina...]

6:13 "Footpaths and psychopaths everywhere..." Oh no 😉😁

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🤒

[@katharina...]

​@@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 😁

[@n1ckburt0n]

lol 😂😂😂

[@mxxg799]

you seem so likeable❤ come back for the spring/summertime

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@mxxg799 Aww thank you! 🤩 Yeh I’m definitely gonna come back at some point, I loved Warsaw 🇵🇱😍

[@zanafar476]

You just buchering the nas in the right way xD

[@n1ckburt0n]

I’m not sure I know what this means 🤭🤪 but I’m gonna “like” it anyway 😆

[@all-about-minecraftm]

in Warsaw lines there are 2 anounsmens one in Polish other in Eglish and one on the station to where the train go

[@n1ckburt0n]

Yeh 🚇🙌🏼 they are quite quiet though compared to the noise of the trains, and particularly if you’re trying to pick out how to say the station names 😝

[@WielkiKaleson]

Świętokrzyska is terribly cramped as for a junction. Those huge pillars on the platform steal precious space!

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🚇

[@respectthefish4992]

my Polish ahh from Warsaw watching this vid like I have not been to those places

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@respectthefish4992 hope it was fun to watch! 😎🚇🇵🇱

[@MagKalii]

Man I aaw my house, that was so hype. Kinda sad that you missed the straight-tusked elephant bones in thr floor of płocka statikn tho.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@MagKalii Haha 🤣 must be quite random/cool seeing your house! 🏠 Yeh I dunno how I missed that 🤔 probably doing too many things at once, I had no idea it even existed tbh

[@MagKalii]

@n1ckburt0n i mean its in the other exit thats back the way you arrived there. So you had low chances of seeing that unless you looked thru the entire station.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@MagKalii ahh that makes a lot of sense as to how I missed it then! 🤓 A couple of comments were worded as though it would be basically impossible to miss lol 😝

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

Im in warsaw right now too. I thought it was old

[@mel90212m]

chill, we're using the hammocks whole year round, just if they are dry, its not weird 😄😄😆

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@mel90212m haha yeh I thought they were a fun addition definitely 😝 I’m sure they’re amazing in summer though ☀️

[@JanMichalSzulew]

Shame you didn't have the time to get off at Nowy Świat and Targówek Mieszkaniowy. The walk from the latter to the next station (Trocka) is very much "residential" (doesn't even follow a regular street, it's like a green pedestrian promenade)

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@JanMichalSzulew Yeh I’ll probably do an updated adventure of this line once they add the new stations cos people gave so many good tips of what to do/see in the comments 😎

[@prk2543]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🥸

[@jakubfabisiak9810]

@@n1ckburt0n for such a quiet neighbourhood, Zacisze is pretty spoiled with public transport. There's a train line running from Dworzec Wileński to the nearby towns, and when a developer built condos on the other side of it, they had a train station put in as well (thanks to that, I can walk 8 minutes from my home to the station, take a train which takes 4 minutes to get to the terminus, as it's the next-to-last station on the line, and a 5-minute walk to get to work). Between that, the bicycle paths, it's really easy to get "to the city" from Zacisze, and just a couple minute drive to a big shopping center.

[@jotsgame]

literally me when I was in warsaw

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@jotsgame hope you had a great time exploring! 🚇🇵🇱😃

[@videoprikoly2015]

Warsaw metro is small, but looks better than Prague or New York metro

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@videoprikoly2015 Yeh the Warsaw M2 line particularly is just so freakin’ cool. There are some really nice stations on the Prague metro too, usually further away from the centre. Last time I was in NYC was 2003 so I’m overdue a visit 😝🚇