Metro part II in the pipeline

Just before the parliamentary elections, the leading Warsaw candidates for the Sejm said that their parties will strongly support a bill that guarantees the Warsaw Metro state support of at least zł.200 million a year. Among those who committed to the project on the pages of Życie Warszawy were Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz from Civic Platform (PO), Mariusz Kamiński from Law and Justice (PiS), Roman Giertych from the League of Polish Families (LPR), and Ryszard Kalisz from Democratic Left Alliance (SLD).

According to Warsaw Metro calculations, regular government subsidies from 2007 will allow it to start construction of the second line, which could be finished within six years. Had it not been for government aid, the second line, connecting the districts of Bemowo and Bródno, could only be built in 2018, provided that Warsaw succeeds in winning subventions from the EU. That in turn will be difficult without the state's support.

Warsaw Metro is managed by Metro Warszawskie and is one of the youngest underground communication systems in the world, although the first bill on its construction was enforced in 1925. After the War, construction restarted at the beginning of the 1950s only to be ceased in 1957. In 1982 the government decided on the construction of the first metro line. The following year the first steel post was hammered into the ground in the Ursynów district. In April 1995 the first, 11km section from the Kabaty station to Politechnika was completed. Now, Warsaw still has only one line 17km long that connects 16 stations. It takes 28 minutes to travel the whole line, which is used by 280,000 passengers a day.