Kasownik
Buses and trams, from the timetable to the inspector. The validator is a kasownik, 'cancelling' a ticket brings it to life, and the fare-dodger rides na gapę.
rozkład jazdy
phrase · noun, masculine
- EN
- timetable
- RU
- расписание
Sprawdź rozkład jazdy w aplikacji.
Check the timetable in the app.
Rozkład on its own is a layout, a distribution or, unhelpfully, decay; only with jazdy is it a timetable. Printed per line on every stop, and the app the whole country uses is jakdojade.
gapowicz
noun · masculine
- EN
- a fare-dodger
- RU
- безбилетник, заяц
Kanar złapał trzech gapowiczów w jednym tramwaju.
The inspector caught three fare-dodgers on one tram.
The person who travels na gapę, without a valid ticket — Russian безбилетник, or colloquially заяц. The phrase once also covered slipping into a theatre without paying.
tłok
noun · masculine
- EN
- a crush, a crowd
- RU
- давка, толчея
W godzinach szczytu w metrze jest straszny tłok.
At rush hour there's a terrible crush on the metro.
Related to tłoczyć się, to crowd together. Russian толпа is the crowd; tłok is what the crowd does to you at eight in the morning.
przystanek na żądanie
phrase · noun, masculine
- EN
- request stop
- RU
- остановка по требованию
To przystanek na żądanie, naciśnij przycisk.
It's a request stop, press the button.
The bus sails past unless someone presses the button inside or waves from the kerb; marked NŻ on the timetable. RU has the concept, but outside city centres every second stop here is one.
pętla
noun · feminine
- EN
- terminus, turning loop
- RU
- конечная (остановка)
Ten autobus jedzie do pętli na Bemowie.
This bus goes to the terminus in Bemowo.
Literally 'loop', because trams turn round on one; it is the terminus on maps, in announcements and on the front of the bus. RU петля is only ever a loop — the terminus is конечная.
bilet okresowy
phrase · noun, masculine
- EN
- season ticket, travel pass
- RU
- проездной
Mam bilet okresowy na 30 dni.
I have a 30-day travel pass.
Lives on a karta miejska or in an app, and the inspector reads the chip. Students under 26 pay half in most cities — ulga studencka — but only with a valid legitymacja in the same pocket.
kasownik
noun · masculine
- EN
- ticket validator
- RU
- валидатор, компостер
Kasownik przy drzwiach nie działa.
The validator by the door doesn't work.
The yellow box by the door. In most cities a single ticket is dead until it has been through one; an untouched paper bilet in your pocket is no ticket at all. Nothing to do with a cashier.
skasować
verb · perfective
- EN
- to validate (a ticket); to delete
- RU
- прокомпостировать (билет); удалить
Skasuj bilet zaraz po wejściu.
Validate your ticket as soon as you get on.
Two opposite jobs: skasować plik deletes it, skasować bilet brings it to life. RU кассировать belongs in a courtroom; here it is what the sticker above the yellow box orders you to do.
kanar
noun · masculine, colloquial
- EN
- ticket inspector
- RU
- контролёр
Na następnym przystanku wsiedli kanary.
Ticket inspectors got on at the next stop.
Slightly rude, from kanarek: the yellow armbands inspectors once wore. Politely kontroler. They board in pairs in plain clothes, and the penalty is an opłata dodatkowa, not a mandat.
jechać na gapę
phrase · verb, imperfective
- EN
- to ride without a ticket, to fare-dodge
- RU
- ехать зайцем
Jechał na gapę i wpadł na kontroli.
He rode without a ticket and got caught in an inspection.
To travel without a valid ticket: Russian ехать зайцем. The passenger is a gapowicz. Linking it to gapa, a scatterbrain, makes a good mnemonic, though not a proven origin.
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