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Prague 8 Calls the New Zenklova Cycle Lane Dangerous, and Says It Never Got the Chance to Object
TSK is painting the markings now. The district's transport commission and its transport councillor say a lane that ends between two running traffic lanes on a street carrying 13,800 vehicles a day is worse than none — and that it surfaced only in the comments on the draft, after the point at which Prague 8 could have filed a position.
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A Strip of Waste Ground Between the Tram and the Railway in Modřany Is Now 52 Parking Spaces
TSK has finished converting an unused plot into a park-and-ride, free to use for up to twelve hours. Three of the bays are reserved for blue-badge holders, and the works were mostly clearance: scrub removed, root-damaged asphalt patched.
The Ring Road's Busiest Junction Goes Under the Diggers. Three Weeks Now, the Real Work in Spring 2027
ŘSD has started the first stage of widening the Třebonice interchange, where the D0 meets the D5 and the Rozvadov spur and more than 75,000 vehicles pass a day. Silnice Group has the contract at 568.1 million crowns before VAT; the stage is to finish in 2028.
Libuš Station Has a Building Permit. Whether Metro D Reaches It in 2032 Turns on Mid-2028
The permit is not final yet, and DPP cannot start the contractor tender until it is. Spokesman Daniel Šabík says that if the station is under construction by the middle of 2028, the first stretch of line D could open as far as Libuš instead of terminating at Nové Dvory.
Prague Commits 25 Million Crowns to a Rebuilt PID Lítačka. It Arrives as an Update in Early 2027
The city council has approved the money for a second generation of the transport app, with another six million from ROPID and IDSK. The rebuild is architectural rather than cosmetic: the new version is meant to carry step-free routing, demand-responsive services and EV charging payments.
Prague Puts Dates on the Petřín Funicular's Stations. Újezd First, All Three Step-Free by 2030
The line reopened on Tuesday with new cars on a rebuilt track. Its three stations were left out of that work; the city council approved the accessibility scheme in June at an estimated 80 million crowns, and the deputy mayor for transport has now set out the order.
Balabenka's Spoil Is to Be Crushed 20 Kilometres Away. The Villages There Were Never Asked
Bašť, Bořanovice and Zlonín have filed an appeal with the Environment Ministry and a joint complaint with the Transport Ministry. A mobile recycling plant serving the rebuild of the Balabenka rail junction sits in the plans at Měšice station, with up to 50 lorries a day on road I/9 — and none of the three was listed as an affected authority.
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The Concrete Plant on Rohanský ostrov Now Has an End Date. What Replaces It Has Not Been Approved by Anyone
TBG Metrostav says the batching plant closes in 2028. Prague 8 wants the site opened as a city farm inside a future Maniny park the size of Stromovka — and says in the same breath that this is a vision for the land, not a permitted scheme.
Architecture · 3 days agoEighteen Years After the Fire, the Industrial Palace Is Whole Again
The left wing that burned out in October 2008 has been rebuilt and the centre hall and right wing restored, over four and a half years and roughly three billion crowns. Metrostav CZ led the consortium; guided tours run to 11 October and Designblok is the first event in the hall.
Transport · 4 days agoThe Dolní Chabry Bypass Is Pulled Out of Its Environmental Screening After 288 Objections
The city hall's nature protection department ended the procedure early, on a request filed by the designer Pudis. Prague is talking to ŘSD about handing the 1.2km road over, because it collides with the ring road junction being prepared next door.
Planning · 4 days agoSeven Degrees Between Staré Město and Ruzyně: IPR Publishes the Heat Data It Wants New Districts Designed Against
Prague had 29 tropical days and 12 tropical nights between May and September. The planning institute's new storymap sets out the three methods behind the numbers — weather stations, satellites, and a model that computes street-level air temperature from the city's 3D model — and its director says the point is to catch the risky sites at design stage.
Transport · 4 days agoMetro D Goes Underground at Nové Dvory, Three Months After the Second Stage Broke Ground
The first 2.5 metres of the access tunnel are driven. Roughly 300 metres of access and ventilation tunnel come first, the station itself is to be excavated before the tunnel boring machines arrive at Rezerva in mid-2027, and a lime-wood Saint Barbara now sits over the portal.
Architecture · 5 days agoArchitecture Students Designed and Built the New Public Toilet on the Tovární Playground
A larch-clad structure made by Prague 7 and the CTU Faculty of Architecture together. It has a changing table and opens April to October, 8am to 6pm; on 22 September its authors gathered on the playground and put every design the studio produced on show.
Transport · 5 days agoThe Suchdol Ring Road Section Loses Another Year to a Question About What Can Stand on Top of a Tunnel
ŘSD will not deliver the final documentation for D0 section 518 this year as its schedule assumed. Its director general now expects it in the first quarter of 2027, with the permit application, the contractor tender and a 2028 construction start all pushed behind it.
Transport · 5 days agoBus 137 Ran for the Last Time on Sunday. On Monday the Route Is Trolleybus 52
DPP now owns thirteen Bozankaya SNG 12T battery trolleybuses, enough to put ten on the road every day, and has converted the Na Knížecí – Waltrovka – Jinonice route to electric traction outright. Every second run will now continue to Jinonice, weekends included.