Agata Cieslak-Wroblewska
2023-02-15, last update 2023-02-15 15:45
Warsaw presents a new plan for the development of the transport network, in which the city is to entwine as many as five subway lines with a total length of 113 kilometers.
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The authorities of Warsaw showed on Monday their master plan for the development of rail transport until 2050. The most important information – more metro lines are to be built, and ultimately there will be as many as five of them.
According to the new Warsaw development study, the M3 line is to connect the districts of Ochota and Praga, M4 – Wilanów and Tarchomin, and M5 – Ursus and Gocławek. Let us remind you that the M1 line connects Ursynów and Bielany, while the M2 line is to be extended to Ursus, and on the Praga side – to Białołęka and return via the Vistula to Bielany.
The metro threads drawn on the map are not straight lines leading straight to the city center, but rather they wind around the whole city (the M2 line will cross the Vistula River twice), intertwining with each other, creating something like a bypass between the districts located further away, but also of course ensuring access to the center.
Rafał Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, argues that this is not a coincidence. – We want more than half of Varsovians to have access to a subway station not far from their homes by 2050 – he emphasized at the Monday conference.
Trzaskowski pointed out that the planned metro network is the result of two-year analyzes taking into account the current and future traffic in the city, spatial development plans, building densities, transport corridors, number of inhabitants, etc. most effective, he said.
The data presented at the conference show that the M4 line (which is to run through Wilanów, Centrum, Wola, Bielany and Tarchomin) is to be the most effective in terms of the number of passengers. On the busiest section, the metro is to carry 19,000 passengers. passengers per hour. For comparison – on the M1 and M2 lines this indicator is approx. 14,000, on the M5 it is expected to reach approx. 10,000, and on the M3 – approx. 6,000.
– But all planned lines are to be efficient enough for us to meet the requirements for co-financing such projects from EU funds – noted Trzaskowski.
The costs of building the metro are huge and the authorities of Warsaw do not conceal that such investments are not possible without EU support. That is why Trzaskowski is counting on EU funds from the reconstruction plan, but also under the cohesion policy.
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