End in sight for Poland's bus route 666 to Hel

The fashionable autobus way 666 to Hel successful bluish Poland is being changed to 669, aft long-running complaints by spiritual conservatives successful the country.

Route 666 - utilized by those heading for sandy beaches successful the edifice of Hel - has go a spot of a gag for some, including English-speaking tourists.

But immoderate spiritual conservatives assertion the way is "spreading Satanism".

The Bible identifies 666 arsenic the "number of the beast", and Hel is conscionable 1 "l" abbreviated of the English connection "hell".

Following the complaints, autobus institution PKS Gdynia announced: "We are turning the past 6 upside down!"

Explaining the crushed for the change, the firm's decorator Marcin Szwaczyk told the trojmiasto.pl quality website the fig 669 was "less controversial".

While the relation betwixt 666 and the connection "hell" whitethorn beryllium mislaid connected immoderate Poles - arsenic the Polish connection for it is "pieklo" - a fig of societal media users successful the state person condemned the coming change, which the autobus institution says is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected 24 June.

"It was a worldwide advert," Krzysztof Nadolski wrote.

"I person often work astir way 66 to Hel connected overseas websites oregon Facebook groups. I americium convinced determination were tourists who would person astir apt arrived faster by train, but for amusive they took autobus way 666."

"What is Hel without 666," quipped Dawid Jastrzebski, portion Kamil Galczynski argued that this was "a cleanable illustration of however NOT to bash marketing".

Another societal media user, Robert Eryk Wozniak, wrote: "I deliberation that the adjacent measurement should beryllium to alteration the sanction of the municipality of Hel to thing other due to the fact that it is against our Christian Polish roots!"

Poland is simply a predominantly Roman Catholic nation, wherever the Church has traditionally been influential.

Over the past fewer years, spiritual conservatives from 1 Polish radical person complained that autobus institution PKS Gdynia is "spreading Satanism".

Route 666 usually runs successful the summertime on the Baltic Sea coast. The portion boasts miles of sandy beaches, and is simply a fashionable tourer destination.