Disappears “Matejko”, thousands of people protesting – Onet.pl

Disappears "Matejko", thousands of people protesting – Onet.pl

 
  Photo: Norbert Litwiński / Onet
 
 
  Railway station in Krakow
 
 
 

Pendolino will run on most routes, or Gdańsk-Warsaw, Warsaw-Wroclaw, Krakow and Warsaw and Warsaw-Katowice. The biggest advantage of the new trains will be traveling time. Example, the trip from Krakow to Gdansk will take approx. 5.5 hours. Currently, this route by train overcome an average of more than 7 hours, and a car in more than 8 hours.

Of course, for faster ride comfort will have to pay. – Ticket prices will start from 49 zł. Pula cheapest tickets will be available in each train. Also estimate that about 40 percent. our customers to buy a ticket at a discount price, taking into account (20 and 30 per cent.) – says Beata Czemerajda the press office of PKP Intercity. Ticket price will be similar to the current average PKP Intercity and reach approx. 120 zł.

It Pendolino, but disappears “Matejko”

Sorry, a ticket for 49 gold on Krakow and Warsaw route is unlikely to be widely available. If, for example, we would like now to buy a train ticket to Warsaw on Sunday, it will pay for the ride Pendolino 135 zł in the second grade.

Introduction Pendolino has had a hiccup on trains Regional trains, which now will be much less. The company’s CEO Thomas Pasikowski portal rynek-kolejowy.pl said that many of the connections you need to cancel, because “they are unprofitable.” Victim of cuts include “Matejko” for which he lacked the time of their courses after the introduction of Pendolino, and thus the profitability of this combination decreased even more.

“Matejko” was very popular both on the route by train to Warsaw and Kraków how. He drove at affordable hours and ticket cost only 54 zł. Therefore, often overcrowded. After elimination of line passengers were very few low-cost alternatives from Cracow and Warsaw.

Protest Facebook

That’s why people started to protest strongly and revile the whole station. Facebook was founded towards “Matejko is! Not for the elimination of low-cost connections between Krakow and Warsaw”. It is already more than 1.7 thousand. people.

– As we are outraged passengers information about the liquidation of a rail link between Krakow and Warsaw, previously operated by train “Matejko”. Replace it with the much more expensive Pendolino will force a huge part of people to find another, cheaper mode of transport, which certainly adversely affect the financial results of the station. (…) Liquidation cheaper rail only lead to the deterioration of the situation of passengers on medium or smaller incomes. (…) We demand the return of the “Matejko” on existing terms and conditions! – Write outraged creator of this page.

Abolition cheap from Krakow and Warsaw are not the only ones on which suffer capital of Malopolska. Liquidation is furthermore take the train “Galicia” the Cracow-Wroclaw, which enjoyed an average of 400 passengers per day in the direction of Wroclaw and more than 400 in the direction of Krakow. The new timetable for this train, there is no alternative.

also protesting politicians

His protest across the Małopolska politicians also express the Law and Justice. – One might ask, for what reason again Krakow and Malopolska into a process of marginalization and prowincjonalizacji that the current government will fund the region – Mr Andrzej Adamczyk said.

He notes that the station in exchange for liquidated train “Matejko” does not give its passengers other proposals cheaper connection from Krakow to Warsaw. – And yet, even in July, representatives of the station, asserted in parliament that a ticket from Krakow to Warsaw will pay 48 zł. The current price and the lack of alternatives to expensive trains is scandalous and unacceptable situation for less or moderately wealthy passenger – Adamczyk added.

PiS MPs are preparing a proposal to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on the Elimination of Infrastructure cheap. They will also want to find out who from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and the PKP group is responsible for deciding under which surpass expensive Pendolino timetable cheaper rail. The application shall be made in the next week.

(KT)