Metro Station Piața Romană - Bucharest 🇷🇴 - Walkthrough 🚶

filmed in June 2022

Piața Romană is a station on the M2 line.
The station opened on November 28, 1988.

Fun fact: The bulk of the platform is less than a meter wide. The reason for this bizarre configuration is that the station was built in secret against the wishes of Elena Ceaușescu, wife of the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu - as Romanian magazine Historia explains:

The peril of narrow and curved platforms has made Piața Romană unique among the subway stations in Bucharest. We owe its strange appearance to Elena Ceaușescu, who removed it from the map of the subway designers in 1985, for a bizarre reason. 'There are too many stations, stop them!' – this was the order of Elena Ceaușescu when she saw the project for the Berceni–Pipera subway section 2, one of the three designers of the station, Sorin Călinescu, told us. He argues, however, that this subway stop was built in secret, in violation of the comrade’s order, who was unwavering in her decision.

The problem raised by Elena Ceausescu was that both the working class and the youth 'started to get fat' and needed to walk more, recall those who worked on the construction of the subway.

'We received an order from the Communist Party to exclude at least one station from the scheme, which was almost impossible because we were few and they gave us plans. We decided to eliminate, only on paper, the most important station, so that afterwards we would be obliged to replace it.' explained Călinescu, the current head of the consulting department Metroul SA.

Călinescu tells that when the works began on the Berceni-Pipera section in 1986, the people who officially worked on the Universitate-Piaţa Victoriei section prepared the land in the area around Piața Romană. In a record time of three months the builders made some tunnels behind the thick walls we see today, with the thought of being transformed into platforms later.

Initially trains passed through the incomplete station without stopping, but following pressure from the Bucharest residents the go ahead was given to complete the station. The remainder of the station was excavated, and the walls to the tunnel broken through, with Piața Romană station opening a year later on 28 November 1988.

(Source: www.eurogunzel.com/2020/04/bucharest-metro-narrow-platform-piata-romana-station)

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