A Challange

So you thought Sisyphus had it tough? Try living in Poland. I heard that Bear Gryll was planning to survive a month on a typical retirement pension at Warsaw, but decided to do some easier and safer things first, so he settled for wrestling alligators[1]. If you need a challenge, try to get things done when you're dependent on Polish public administration. Or live in the Wroclaw estate of Lesnica.

Lesnica is a part of Wroclaw[3], that has been constantly humiliated, belittled and ignored by the city officials. At least in the means of public transportation. Private too, but that's another issue.

Problem is that Lesnica is one of farthest estates from the city center, and there is a lot of free space on the way. So naturally, there's a lot of investments, and some of them are seriously disrupting the poorly developed transportation network in the west part of the city. Lesnica and its surroundings usually suffers the most.

This time municipalities have organized traffic so brilliantly, that people from Lesnica must change their means of transportation FOUR TIMES EACH WAY, only to get to the city centre. So each day, one would have to change tram or bus EIGHT TIMES to get to work and return home. Or even more in the worst case scenario, when someone in living in Lesnica, but working on the other side of the city in some poorly connected place.

Gee. Godot would be faster.

Of course it's easy to deduce, that none of the city officials lives there. And even if one does, he's definitely not using public transportation.

[1] Actually we have some crocodiles in Poland as well. In Polish slang "a crocodile" is a Road Traffic Inspection officer, since they're wearing green uniforms. Police officer hunting for speeding tickets is called a "teddy bear"[2].

[2] At least as long as the hunting is unsuccessful. Vocabulary for the other situation is being constantly increased by esteemed researchers all over the country.

[3] Seriously! Since 1928.