Below: a westbound 209 bus pulls away from Pozytywki 02, heading for the temporary loop by Biedronka (once the viaduct over the railway line is complete, the bus loop will be moved to the other side of the tracks). As you can see, the bus stop sign is provisional, and there's no bus shelter here.
Left: Pozytywki 01. The siting of these two stops is intended for people working at the new Totalbud Karczunkowska business park, as well as for the state security printing works, PWPW. A good location, as up till now, people wanting to use public transport would either have to walk between 350m and half a kilometre from existing bus stops.
Note lack of bus stop name on the temporary sign. The in-bus announcements also fail to mention its name: 'Następny przystanek" - ... [silence]. Soon after: "Następny przystanek - Karczunkowska". Wonder when this will change.
Too many people drive to PWPW. They leave their cars littered along the grass verges and pavements; at least they can no longer claim that they must drive to work because the bus stops are too far away.
Note lack of bus stop name on the temporary sign. The in-bus announcements also fail to mention its name: 'Następny przystanek" - ... [silence]. Soon after: "Następny przystanek - Karczunkowska". Wonder when this will change.
Too many people drive to PWPW. They leave their cars littered along the grass verges and pavements; at least they can no longer claim that they must drive to work because the bus stops are too far away.
The screenshot from Google Earth (below) shows the location of the new stops in relation to the Trombity and Karczunkowska stops. Click to enlarge - you can see just how necessary the new stops are, by two large zakłady pracy (the word 'workplace' is inadequate here!).
The ZTM website as of yesterday includes the new bus stop on the timetables (below) for route 209 (the L39 currently terminates on Puławska, by bus stop Karczunkowska 01 - hopefully just for the summer). Incidentally, the numbers by the names of the bus stops are... the numbers of the bus stops, and not the number of minutes between each stop. The bizarre one is PKP Jeziorki 53, I guess the '53' denotes a temporary/provisional stop.
The online timetable also shows bus times from the two new stops, as you can see, three buses an hour during the peaks - although bear in mind it's the summer; by autumn there will be more. And, no doubt, by the time the viaduct's ready, there will be more buses serving Karczunkowska.
Below: ZTM's public transport map of Warsaw (which now covers from Nadarzyn in the south-west to Tłuszcz in the north-east and from Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in the north-west to Celestynów in the south-east) includes the city's latest bus stop - Pozytywki. Very impressive that it's so up to date!
So - Warsaw's public transport continues to get better and better. Now to tempt those idle fossil-fuel guzzlers out of their cars and into the buses!
This time six years ago:
Who should pay for railways?
[Interesting stuff about America's advanced electric railway line over the Rockies - built over 100 years ago!]
This time eight years ago:
Grunwald - the big picture
This time ten years ago:
"Take me right back to the track, Jack"
This time 11 years ago:
The summer sublime
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I wonder when these bus routes will make it out to Zgorzala. They are now starting to clear the field behind us, so our view will go. Problem is they still have not done anything to resolve the access to Zgorzala so all still funnels through one road. A lot of new building all around us, even before the major development for Mysadlo and scant sign of any infrastructure to support it all.
@ Ian Wilcock
Just wait until the S2 goes roaring through the back of Zgorzała... three-four years of construction traffic before then. I'm amazed that there's no access to your estate from ul. Postępu - every time I'm there I'm thinking that by now there should be a lick of asphalt - but no :-(
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