I had a few minutes for a brief exploration of the post-Communist Warsaw Metro system. Well, system is a bit keen as there's only one line. And, from what I saw of a quick spin, it's all a bit sensible and functional, in a Heathrow-extension-of-the-Piccadilly-Line type way.
All the thrills of a double-decker Hounslow West.
The old rolling stock will give caravan-fanciers something to enjoy.
Good thing that veneer is waterproof.
The Metro entrances I saw were uninspiring Thatcherite blue-frame canopies. Presumably the Polish civic planners were keen to make up for having missed out on the delights of the 80s.
Yawn. DLR-chic.
However, Plac Wilsona seems to be a pointlessly lovely (although probably accidental) homage to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Bored-looking commuters ride a short escalator into an elliptical abduction fantasy of soft pink and blue uplighting.
[Insert Star Trek cliché here]
Thank god it's not modelled on DS9 </geek>
Plac Wilsona reminds me of the utterly random Star Trek-themed Page's Bar pub in Westminster, which had a model Starship Enterprise hanging in pride of place over the pool table, and the occasional fan in full Worf-from-season-3 gear. Whilst surely too niche an interest to be a viable business proposition, Page's Bar was more interesting that the pub that replaced it, the expensive-and-humdrum Westminster.
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