From toad to hydrogen. A history of public transport in Poland
A hundred and sixty years of getting around town: horses, a spark, the cucumber, the sausage, the metro and a bus that drips nothing but water.
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Where the word kanar came from, how Warsaw rode trams and buses, and how public transport grew across Poland. Long reads with archive photographs.
- Kanar. The story of a word that began with a yellow band on a capWhy Poles call a ticket inspector a kanar: yellow cap bands, a yellow omnibus in old Warsaw, military police, riding na gapę and the Russian hare.
- Toads, sausages and Ikaruses. A history of Warsaw’s trams and busesHow Warsaw got around: the 1866 horse tram, electric trams from 1908, occupation, the 13N, the Ikarus, the 1995 metro and a passenger’s day in 1930, 1970, 2000.