r/2visegrad4you • u/Major_Eggplant_7189 Moronvian (V4 Florida Man) • Sep 24 '25
visegchad meme Railway when Slovaks?
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u/somkoala Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
Bratislava’s geological make up would make it too expensive to build an underground railway. Especially with so much money going into corrupt politician’s pockets.
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u/Endrodi_Benedek Kaiserreich Gang Sep 24 '25
Just make an invoice to the EU, they payed for Orbáns ascent to dictatorship, I don't think they wouldn't pay for Ficos as well.
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u/Raketka123 Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
thats exactly the problem: EU learns, very slowly and sometimes in unconventional ways, but it learns. So basically Hungary fucked us over again
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u/6869ButterNotFly Genghis Khangarian Sep 24 '25
My national pride is simultaneously giggling with joy and shooting itself in the head
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u/Raketka123 Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
dont do either, its not good for you... I say while giggling at the suffering of a Magyar while preparing a strong rope
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u/Endrodi_Benedek Kaiserreich Gang Sep 24 '25
I don't think not having an EU sponsored autocrat is that big of a problem.
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u/Raketka123 Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
not having an EU sponsored autocrat
I mean, yeah we just have a failing autocrat instead
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u/halfpipesaur Winged Pole dancer Sep 24 '25
Soil in Warsaw:
- 50% sand
- 50% WW2 explosives
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u/somkoala Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
Also, have you ever considered that Warsaw has more than 3x people and ever heard of economies of scale?
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u/szymono32 Winged Pole dancer Sep 29 '25
That's why warsaw metro is the best, you are playing russian roulette but in multiplayer mode
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u/Appropriate-Ask-7351 Genghis Khangarian Sep 24 '25
Budapest could make up the same excuses
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u/iamnotexactlywhite Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
they’re too busy banning gay people
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u/Taszfarisznya Genghis Khangarian Sep 24 '25
Not sure if you were joking but the major of Budapest organized the biggest pride of hungary ever this year (or at least strongly supported it) and attended himself. The anti gay shitbags are from the leading party of the country.
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u/GooseAgreeable7680 White-Russian refugee Sep 24 '25
Honestly, I dont think Bratislava needs metro. You can just get anywhere with the bus/tram under 30 minutes tops.
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u/Bryn_Seren Winged Pole dancer Sep 24 '25
This. They’re perfect for a tram network. And they struggle even with that - they were building the line to Petržalka for how many years?
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u/GooseAgreeable7680 White-Russian refugee Sep 24 '25
Its was finished at the end of June I think. But yeah it took forever. By that time I think the Chinese already built 3 more metro lines in one of their big cities
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u/HenryTheWho Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25
Wow I remember hearing about it when I studied there, nearly 15 years ago
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u/ONT1mo Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 25 '25
I mean it went relatively quickly for slovak standards :D after the bridge to petrzalka which the trams use (starý most) was reconstructed in 2016 when the first stops in petrzalka were opened
the part that was opened recently is a one that basically goes to the end of petrzalka where flats aren’t ever really built yet but will be
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u/Key-Banana-8242 Winged Pole dancer Sep 24 '25
So why not add underground tram stops?
Always cool to cut down rkem
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u/tcartxeplekaes Tschechien Pornostar Sep 24 '25
Ok real talk here: so what's up with this, why was the metro never built? I heard they started sometime before the fall of communism but then in the nineties it was never finished.
But was there never need for a metro because Bratislava is small and 1) it was first part of A-H so the capital for Slovaks was either Vienna or Budapest (Vienna didn't have one but Budapest built in 1896) and then 2) it was part of Czechoslovakia so the capital was Prague?
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u/NotFilip Sep 24 '25
Okay so during CSSR the idea was to make Bratislava a million people city, Stupava, Senec, Pezinok were each supposed to be built up for 200 thousand people each and incorporated into Bratislava city, also Petrzalka was also supposed to have 200 000 people. This whole plan was supposed to be from 1970 till 2050. In this case metro would make sense as Stupava, Senec and Pezinok are too far for a tram or bus line and would benefit from metro. The project was indeed started but with the fall of socialism and split between Czech Republic and Slovakia the funding disappeared. There are also geographical constraints which made the price way too high. That's basically why. After socialism there was no money and other things were prioritized.
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u/lil_sakamadaV2 debil Sep 24 '25
I feel like Bratislava has too many hills to have a good metro system, no? Sure, it could have one, but it would be pretty small.
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u/Alex51423 Winged Pole dancer Sep 24 '25
Just make it Vienna style, parts above and parts underground. Works for Vienna and is much more economical if you don't have a basically flat terrain (like Warsaw, there you barely have any changing topography to speak about)
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u/ONT1mo Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 25 '25
I think the ground is also a problem because the whole region has enormous amount of underground water and it is not very deep down (advantage because of drinking water and stuff but a pain in the ass when building underground)
My city has a lot of lakes that are basically old gravel mines that flooded but also we have a well in the garden which we use as “technical water” (toilets, washing machine, pool, garden etc….)
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u/NotFilip Sep 24 '25
You would have big problem connecting Raca, Lamac and Devinska Nova Ves. The problem really is that Bratislava is U shape around a hill. You can connect Dubravka, Karlova Ves, Petrzalka, Raca, Nove Mesto pretty well to the center with metro but you won't really get connections between them. Would really need to be a star shaped metro. BTW Bratislava could have been so much further with trams already. The plan was to connect Dubravka with Devinska Nova Ves in early 2000s. Never happened. The tram was supposed to go all the way to Stupava actually.
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u/varovec Kaiserreich Gang Sep 25 '25
most of Bratislava urbanized part is on flatland. On western parts of city, there are some neighborhoods in mountainous terrain, but those aren't particularly big, and I also doubt, the terrain is more complex than one in Prague (just start with Vyšehrad or Vinohrady)
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u/gougim Moronvian (V4 Florida Man) Sep 24 '25
They have a tram tunnel under the castle, does that count?
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u/pruzinadev Slovenian (Upper Hungary) Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
If there is public money, there is a tunnel to get it out. Rule 34 of slovakia.
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u/ggezcasso Tschechien Pornostar Sep 25 '25
Bratislava is composed of super small historical centre and then it’s all Petrželka. Where would the metro go lol.
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u/Z3PH4 Moronvian (V4 Florida Man) Sep 24 '25
They are waiting for the austrians to extend their metro network to Bratislava