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

[@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.

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

You said “rondo daszyńskiego” perfectly!❤

[@n1ckburt0n]

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

[@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

[@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! 🇵🇱

[@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 ☠️🤣

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

The m2 line is looking very modern

[@n1ckburt0n]

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

[@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 😝

[@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!

[@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 ;)

[@Halfpipesaur]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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 🚇

[@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.

[@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 🤯🔫🤣

[@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 🚇

[@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! 😎

[@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

[@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! 📱😱

[@___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! 😎

[@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! 🚇

[@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?

[@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 💀🤣

[@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!☀️🇵🇱

[@justdriving9286]

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

[@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 🏙️🥸

[@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 🤓

[@Alix49]

Funny to watch your home in tourist video 😅

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@Alix49 Hopefully it was “funny” in a good way 😝😅

[@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 🥸

[@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 😇

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

I onec biked from kabaty to centrum stations and it was hard😅 but i never walked that much

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@elemelkielemelki2702 still a fair trek even on a bike! 🚲😎

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

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

[@___lzcat]

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]

@___lzcat Oh interesting info 🥸🇪🇺 thanks! Definitely a good thing to splash out on 🚇

[@Tou24601]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

Ahh 🧠 a very important message then! 😎 Thanks for giving an idea of what it’s about 🙌🏼

[@psoras]

The messages were "There's no shame in being depressed", "Don't be afraid to ask for help", "See the doctor" etc.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@psoras very important messages 🧠 👨🏼‍⚕️thanks for translating them 😎

[@robertdziedzic8083]

👍

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@robertdziedzic8083 Thanks 🤩👍🏼

[@emiliawilson8410]

The lines are numbered coded the Red line is M2

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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) 🚇

[@AML-FRL]

🎄☃🎄⛄🎄

[@n1ckburt0n]

I’ve got some festive vlogs coming up from Tallinn 🇪🇪 and Riga 🇱🇻😉…Merry Xmas 🎄⛄️

[@___lzcat]

no one calls the lines by their color, m1/m2 is much faster to say in polish

[@n1ckburt0n]

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 🚇

[@___lzcat]

also why did you skip Dworzec Wileński?

[@n1ckburt0n]

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.

[@krzysztofj1993]

Many of M2 stations logos refer to their historical locations.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@krzysztofj1993 So many cool little details on this line 🚇🇵🇱🤩

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

Even tho i live in warsaw i did not know some of thees facts

[@n1ckburt0n]

Haha 🥸🧠 every day is a school day for us all I guess 😝

[@elemelkielemelki2702]

The traines are 3 minutes apart

[@n1ckburt0n]

That’s a great frequency! 🚇

[@mklml1]

Unfortunately it is not automated system and not protected against falling down on track

[@tenstrateq6262]

10:49 your zooming at the last remanent fo 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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

Is the M2 Line 🚇🇵🇱 the funkiest metro line in Europe? 😝 Discuss ⬇️

[@matrixmannn]

O tej porze roku to jest gówniana pogoda, ani to zima, ani lato.

[@Martinswede]

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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@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! 🚇

[@PiotrJaser]

After the Russians dropped an atomic bomb on Warsaw, Germany, as usual, announced that it did not want escalation and would cooperate with Russia.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@PiotrJaser The “as usual” in this comment made me laugh 🤭💀😄

[@PiotrJaser]

@@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.

[@filipzietek5146]

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.

[@PiotrJaser]

@@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.

[@n1ckburt0n]

@@filipzietek5146 geopolitics is such a minefield though 💣 isn’t it? Whereas metros 🚇 so much more fun 😝