Visualisation of teh Martanovičova metro stop. (source: Andrej Fridrich)
Although construction work was actually started on it twice, and its potential role as part of a public transport system for the capital continues to be debated today, for residents of Bratislava, the metro remains just a dream.
But now visitors to the city’s Museum of Transport can at least get a virtual experience of what might have been.
“It was very impressive, a very lively experience of what a ride on the metro across Petržalka might have looked like,” Viera Lučeničová, a lady in her fifties, said after seeing the 30-minute documentary screened at a new exhibition about the city’s uncompleted metro. “I still remember the years when the metro was under construction, hearing promises that it would be completed in a few years. Unfortunately or fortunately – it is hard to say - it never happened.”
Opinions on the metro remain divided in Bratislava even now, and myths and legends around the project have grown over the years.
You will read in the article:
what the Bratislava metro was supposed to be
why its construction was not completed
what is left of it
myths about the Bratislava metro
