A Bus Through Blanka: Line 145 Puts Kobylisy Twenty Minutes from Dejvice

On 15 August PID put line 145 into service between Sídliště Čimice and Dejvická. It is, by ROPID's own description, the first bus line to run through the Blanka tunnel complex: a permanent connection between Prague 8 and Prague 6 that goes under the city rather than around it.

The route and the numbers

Line 145 runs from Sídliště Čimice along Čimická through Kobylisy, then via Nad Šutkou and Zenklova into the Blanka complex, out through the Bubenečský tunnel at Hradčanská next to the metro A station, and terminates at Dejvická on Vítězné náměstí. PID puts the scheduled running time from Kobylisy to Dejvická at under twenty minutes.

Headways are the part that signals how seriously this is meant. Six minutes at the morning peak, seven to eight in the afternoon, fifteen to twenty at midday and in the evening; at weekends twenty in the morning, fifteen through the day, twenty in the evening. The full route runs from 05:00 to 23:00, and outside those hours the service shortens to the Kobylisy–Sídliště Čimice section only.

The line comes with priority measures rather than just a timetable: new bus lanes on Nad Šutkou, a passage over the tram track on Zenklova, and ramp access via Nová Povltavská. Most stops get digital departure boards showing real-time information.

Two other permanent changes from the same date

Line 218 was extended on the same day. It now continues from Nádraží Veleslavín south along Kladenská to Bořislavka metro station and on to a terminus at Na Písích, with new stops at Škola Červený Vrch, Nad Tratí and Kladenská in both directions. It runs every 30 minutes at peaks and hourly otherwise, including evenings and weekends — a low frequency, but a first fixed link along that stretch of Kladenská.

With the reconstruction of Kbelská finished, line 110 has been permanently split at Hloubětín. Line 110 now runs Hloubětín – Letňany – Obchodní centrum Čakovice – Třeboradický hřbitov; the Bazén Hloubětín – Dolní Počernice section becomes line 206 as a permanent designation rather than a diversion number. Line 201 goes back to running Nádraží Holešovice – Černý Most without a break.

And a network-wide change on 29 August

The larger item lands at the end of the school holidays. From 29 August, PID unifies Saturday and Sunday timetables on the metro and on most city bus lines. In practice, as both PID and Prague 10 put it, that means more service on Sunday mornings and through Sunday midday — the weakest slot in the week, and one that has been weak for years because Sunday was timetabled separately and more thinly than Saturday.

New stops open the same day: Poříčanská, Radnice Letňany, Sourozenců Čapkových and Zličín (Řevnické ulice). U Blaženky is renamed Popelka, and Vrbova is extended to serve the Novodvorská direction. Prague 10 confirms that Sourozenců Čapkových sits in Soběslavská at the junction with Šrobárova and U Zdravotního ústavu, and that five lines will call there: 124, 139, 150, 155 and 213.

Around Nové Letňany three lines are rearranged. Line 158 begins serving Toužimská and Nové Letňany from 29 August; line 166 stops serving Nové Letňany; line 278 is rerouted via Toužimská as a school service.

What is actually new here

Most of a PID release is bookkeeping — a stop renamed, a diversion made permanent. Two things in this batch are not.

The first is 145. A road tunnel is now carrying a scheduled bus every six minutes at the peak, with bus lanes and a ramp built to feed it. Whether that turns out to be a one-off or a template will depend on how the running times hold up, since the priority measures ROPID lists are all on the approaches — inside the tunnel the bus has no more protection than anything else in there.

The second is the weekend timetable merge. It affects no route and appears in no map, but it changes what the network offers on Sunday morning across the whole city — which is more people, more often, than any single new line in this release.