There’s a big chance you’ll begin your visit on Warsaw Central rail station. The Polish Railways recently admitted that renovation of the most disgusting rail station in the Europe will cost slightly more then the planned 27 millions pln. It will cost… probably more then 100 millions pln.
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Central Rail Station – the most important rail station in Warsaw, and in the whole Poland. One of the horrors, that almost 50 years of communism left in Warsaw… Apart from it – there are also Western and Eastern (in Polish: Zachodnia, Wschodnia) rail stations. Almost all of the trains pass through the Central Railway Station. If you are planning a trip to Warsaw, ask for exact ticket – to Warszawa Centralna (this is it’s name in Polish).
Entrances to underground stations are marked with a pictogram and the name of the station. There are entrance gates installed before the very entrances to the underground platforms.
ZTM stops are marked with traffic signs with a bus or tram pictogram. The sign is usually placed either on a pillar or the shelter (roof). Markings of lines servicing a given stop are also indicated at that stop. A number of stops of selected bus lines are only on-demand stops. The line is marked as “na żądanie” (on-demand stop), and the number surround is green (for day lines).
The conurbation area served by ZTM lines is divided into two tariff zones marked as 1 and 2. The first zone (1) encompasses the territory within the borders of Warsaw, and the second one (2) – locations outside the borders of Warsaw.
Passengers are obliged to have tickets valid for travel through a particular zone on crossing the zone border at the latest.
There is a validating machine to be found by the door on all buses, trams, and urban rapid rail. Tickets which have not been validated earlier, i.e. each single fare ticket or unused seasonal or time-limit ticket, should be validated immediately after boarding the vehicle.
In vehicles of ZTM lines only tickets issued by ZTM Warszawa are acceptable. Such tickets may be bought in the sale network, including among others, Passenger Service Centres, post offices, authorised points of sale and ticket vending machines.
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