Wednesday 1 June 2011

Zeno's Paradoxes In Poland: Will The Train Outperform Tortoise?

Poland has world's biggest Railway Museum. It involves vast majority of the rolling stock in the country, most train stations and tracks. Actually you can't use any of the rail services outside the Railway Museum. O course unless you're willing to go to Dresden.

Last time I used PKP services we just stopped in the wood and waited for an hour so the other train could pass. Another time the train was running so slow, that it was overtaken by several pedestrians, including lady with a baby carriage.

PKP Intercity's trains have names, like "The Miner", "Panorama", "Slowacki" [2] and so on. How come none is called "Lame Snail", "Turtle On Drugs" or "Wounded Frog"? No-one should be surprised when it's delayed. You've entered "the lame snail", what did you expect?

Maybe one should be called "Toilet paper", so that passengers would know, that's the one that actually have toilet paper (most others don't).

There's so many things in Poland that has developed significantly in the last 20 years, railways unfortunately isn't one of them.

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