A nice surprise as I walked into Chynów yesterday – a pair of nice new bus stops for the centre of the village! The first one stands where the waffle wagon stood and before it the kebab truck. Frem where will they ply their trade now?
Below: westbound stop for Drwalew, Słomczyn and Grójec. Elegant. I like the metal-framed wooden flower boxes on either side. At last, local bus travel is starting to look respectable. Easy-to-read signage.
There are no buses at the weekend. Like, zero. There are three buses in the morning to Góra Kalwaria, four in the afternoon and none at all in the evening, the last bus leaving Chynów at ten to five. Does this service look like you can trust it? Can you buy a ticket on your phone via an PKS Grójec app, the way you can buy a Koleje Mazowieckie ticket? Outside of Poland's agglomerations, the bus as form of public transport is a hit-or-miss throwback to the bad old days. Turn up at the bus stop with some loose change (who knows what the fare will be?) and hope that a bus arrives. Not a form of transport that can persuade the rural citizen to abandon their car for. PKS (Poland's communist-era road communication enterprise) needs to be shaken up for the 21st century.
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