Wednesday 18 May 2011

Zeno's Paradoxes In Poland: Shortest Path Between Wroclaw And Warsaw


According to PKP Intercity [1] it goes either via Poznan or Katowice. Look at the map and weep.




Layman would think that it's shorter via Lodz, but when Intercity CEO heard about it, he ordered to fire Mr. Layman immediately. Lodz shouldn’t be connected to the network as it’s only second biggest city in Poland [2], and who would want to go there anyway. Since Lodz means “boat” in Polish, PKP Intercity obviously concluded, that people just swim there, so the train connection would be redundant.

Poles love PKP Intercity for many things; its magnificent logic is just one of them.

[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_Intercity
[2] Or third. Lodz and Krakow are constantly fighting over that.

1 comment:

  1. no regrets. Warsaw is not a very attractive town, well then, that we have a good connection to Berlin;)

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