A dozen or so cars parked up informally on the muddy verge of ul. Gogolińska, the untarmacked track that leads from Jeziorki to Nowa Iwiczna. These are the spontaneous beginnings of Park and Ride; drive to your local station (and most of these cars have Ursynów or Piaseczno plates) and take the train into town. I guess that within three years, there will be a large car park here with hundreds of park and ride commuters leaving their cars here rather than facing the stasis that is ul. Puławska.FOLLOW UP - 8 OCTOBER 2011. Three years on - no car park. Puławska more congested than ever. The number of cars left on grass verges and in muddy puddles around W-wa Jeziorki is now around 50 - a drop in the ocean compared to the volume of traffic crawling all the way into town along Puławska.
Found this map of railway use today - ciekawe :)
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the other map images are quite informative too.
Nice one! Poland quite put in the shade by Germany and France...
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Michael - have you seen a good map of the greater Warsaw area that shows all train tracks and uses of those track? Would be interesting to see it. I would guess that there are tracks that are either seldom or never used that could be converted to light rail quickly and easily.
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South of Warsaw, just two - the Metro link (see next post up) and the coal line from Nowa Iwiczna to Siekierki via Konstancin-Jeziorna.
ReplyDeleteThere are many short industrial spurs in Służewiec that are of no use and the rails pulled up for scrap.