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finished. first line in 2008
The Warsaw metro has had a long history. Plans for the metro began in 1925. Work officially started on the first line in 1983 and its last stations were opened 25 years later in 2008. The various stations are quite different in style. The southern ones, up to metro Politechnika, are pragmatic and without grandeur. They use simple color schemes and basic materials to differentiate them. Starting with Ratush-Arsenal the style becomes more high-tech. The materials used are lusher, these are the newer stations. Plac Wilsona is the most baroque of them all and has been voted prettiest metro station in the world at the 2008 Metrorail convention. The final stations are more demure, almost ascetic with just a single richer material as an accent. Currently work has begun on the second line which will run perpendicular to the first, leading from Wlochy to Praga. Hopefully it will take less time to complete than the first.
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