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Upper Žižkov backs a 30 km/h zone, but splits by age over giving up parking for pavement
Praha 3 has published its consultation on the next traffic-calmed zone: 71 percent of respondents in favour, works expected in 2027. The argument is at the corners, where wider pavements cost parking spaces.
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FlixBus Starts a Non-Stop Florenc–Airport Bus, the Second New Rival to Airport Express in Three Weeks
Thirteen return trips a day from Florenc coach station to Václav Havel Airport, fares from 78 crowns, a promised 30 minutes. Until the end of October only DPP and RegioJet ran buses between the centre and the airport; now there are four operators.
Adam Scheinherr Returns to Run Prague's Transport, Promising the Ring Road, New Tram Lines and Metro
STAN, Spolu and Praha sobě have agreed a coalition with 47 of the 65 seats. Mayor-designate Petr Hlaváček gives transport back to the man who held it from 2018, and says the transit company DPP needs 'strengthening'.
ŘSD Pays the Knights of Malta CZK 269 Million for the Ring Road's Březiněves Interchange
Three plots of farmland valued at 33.68 million went for eight times that, the multiple the law allows for agricultural land sold voluntarily. They are where the unbuilt northern ring road is to meet the D8.
Sulická Closes for More Than Seven Months From 25 November as Metro D Digs Into Krč
The city has set out the next round of closures for the second section of metro D. Sulická shuts between Branická and Pod Višňovkou until the end of June, three bus lines lose the Nádraží Krč stop, and the traffic is expected to land on Vídeňská.
Part of Terminal 1's Ceiling Has Come Down Twice in a Few Weeks, Both Times Over the Passport Control Being Rebuilt
A suspended ceiling carrying screens fell in front of the arrivals passport desks in October and another section fell early on 5 November. The airport blames the contractor for the first, says the area was cordoned off for the second, and keeps the works going to April.
Praha 1 will close the last block of Pařížská to cars on Advent weekend evenings, taxis included
From 27 November to 3 January the last stretch of Pařížská before Old Town Square is to close to cars from 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday to Sunday. The district calls it a trial and says it will judge it on how traffic and pedestrians behave.
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Hradčanská Shuts on 16 January for Almost a Year — and Reopens Without a Lift
DPP has started preparatory work on a 1.134-billion-crown rebuild of the 1978 station and fixed the date it closes. Step-free access is a separate project, waiting on a railway station that has no permit yet.
Planning · 2 weeks agoWith the Metropolitan Plan in Force, IPR Splits Prague Into Four Offices and Moves Its Weight to Planning Contracts
The city's planning institute has reorganised around the work the new zoning plan creates: one team per quarter of Prague that follows each site from study to negotiation with the developer. The section will also own future changes to the plan.
Transport · 2 weeks agoDPP Tries Again for Up to 140 Battery Trolleybuses, With the Clause That Sank the First Tender Gone
A five-year framework contract worth an estimated CZK 2.64 billion before VAT, for up to 80 articulated and 60 standard vehicles. The previous tender, for 180, was cancelled by the competition office after Bozankaya complained that supplier experience was being scored.
Transport · 2 weeks agoA Private Coach Line Takes On DPP's Airport Express, at 125 Crowns Against 200
Dinarica starts running BusAir between Václav Havel Airport, Hradčanská and the main station, eight times a day each way. It is the first private competition on the route since DPP doubled its Airport Express fare in January.
Transport · 2 weeks agoŘSD Goes to Court Over Its Fine for the Suchdol Bridge Competition, While the Drahaň Valley Bridge Still Has No Confirmed Winner
The competition authority fined ŘSD 220,000 crowns because the winning design for the ring road's Vltava bridge breaks the competition's own rules. ŘSD is suing and says the design will not change. The second bridge, over the Drahaň valley, waits on a ministry commission due to decide by the end of November.
Transport · 2 weeks agoA Fourth Track Into Prague From the East Goes to Tender for 323 Million
Správa železnic is looking for the designer who will take the Běchovice–Libeň corridor from planning permission to construction drawings. The extra track is meant to separate stopping trains from long-distance ones and make room for high-speed services; construction could start in the second half of 2029.
Transport · 3 weeks agoPrague Signs Off CZK 359 Million to Watch the Ground Under the Eastern City Ring
Councillors have chosen SG Geotechnika and Pudis to monitor the rock, groundwater and neighbouring buildings while survey adits are driven for three tunnels. The survey itself, put at CZK 2.47 billion, is still to be tendered.
Transport · 3 weeks agoPrague Moves to Bring Every Traffic Light Under One Owner
TSK opened a single fault desk for the city's signals in October and takes over their field maintenance from THMP on 1 February. Signals built and still owned by private developers are to pass to the city.