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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.
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.
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.
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.
A 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.
ŘSD 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.
Prague 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.
Painted Bicycles Instead of Cycle Lanes: Prague's Gentle Fix for the Dvorecký Bridge Pavements
Months after the bridge opened with cyclists and pedestrians sharing its footways, the city has added non-binding pictograms by the tram and bus stops. The separate cycle lanes it was designed with were dropped by the city's cycling commission a year ago.
Smíchov Station Is Half Rebuilt. Platforms Three and Four Open on Tuesday, the Footbridge Slips to 2028
Správa železnic hands passengers the rebuilt half of the station on 20 October and moves the works to the side by the station building. On site its representative was more cautious than its own press release about when the new Smíchov–Radlice footbridge opens.
Žižkov's Temporary Wide Tram Stops Become Permanent — and Lose a Little Width
The Biskupcova platforms widened in 2023 with a bolt-down kit laid on the carriageway are being rebuilt as fixed structures during the Jana Želivského track renewal. The tracks move 60 cm apart so buses can pass each other, and the island from the centre gives up 55 cm of what it gained.
Prague Airport strips the shops, offices and hotel out of its Terminal 2 Skywalk
The 550-metre walkway between the planned car parks and Terminal 2 already had documentation for a building permit. A new tender to redesign it shows the airport cutting it down to a connecting corridor with fewer floors, to save on investment costs.
The Approach from the D8 Narrows to One Lane. TSK Resurfaces 4.3 Kilometres of Cínovecká to 10 December
Work starts on Friday 23 October on the inbound carriageway, overlapping the final stage of the Kbelská reconstruction on the interchange it feeds. TSK expects queues and delays of 10 to 30 minutes at peak.
A Year of Closures at Masaryk Station, Narrowed by One Objection
The competition office has approved Správa železnic' plan of line restrictions for 2027. The Prague entry — Libeň, Holešovice and Masarykovo nádraží — is among the heaviest on the list, and the transport authority ROPID got two platform tracks released from September. The decision is not yet final.
Jankovcova Is Being Cleared Before the Builder of Its School Has Been Chosen
Praha 7 says demolition is under way on the plot for the Jan Vodňanský primary school while the contractor tender is still running. The district now puts the capacity at about 570 pupils; the figure reported when the financing closed in September was 550.
Freeing One Drilling Rig Cost Part of a Railway Bridge and an Estimated 30 Million Crowns
A low-loader wedged under the viaduct on Vídeňská in Krč on 7 October. To get it out the fire brigade demolished part of the span — the one of the three tracks that belongs to the transport undertaking, carrying the siding from Krč station to the Kačerov metro depot. Ten bus lines ran diverted for over a day.
The Ládví Frog Comes Back as a Replica Cast From the Sculptor's Own Model, This Time Under Cameras
Prague 8 load-tested the rebuilt fountain by the Ládví pool on 8 October, and water runs under Vincenc Vingler's bronze for the first time in decades. The original was torn off by vandals in 2007 and stolen for good in 2008. The replica stays in the town hall until the security system is installed.
Prague Starts the Faculty of Arts Memorial With a Brief, Not a Competition
Councillors approved a working group on 5 October to write the brief for an architectural and artistic competition on Jan Palach Square. Bereaved families and survivors will take part. Whether there is a competition at all will be decided after the brief exists — and the square is being rebuilt at the same time.
Žižkov Loses Its Trams Until 18 December for the Last 700 Metres of Jana Želivského
DPP suspends trams between Nákladové nádraží Žižkov and Ohrada from the night of 10 October until 18 December. Nine lines are rerouted or cancelled, 16 and 34 disappear for the duration, and the second phase of the Olšanská crossing rebuild ties the new Jarov line into the network.
195 Million for Every Check-In Desk at Once: Prague Airport Gives SITA a Six-Year Contract, Live in April 2027
The airport is replacing the software and hardware behind all check-in and transfer desks and departure gates, with 450 computer terminals and 35 new self-service kiosks in the tender documents. Terminal 2 loses the twelve oldest bag-drop units from 2020; Terminal 1 gains eight more.
The Eighth New Tram Line Starts at Libuš: 1.8 Kilometres to Nové Dvory for CZK 1.26 Billion, Half the Time Spent on Water Mains
DPP laid the foundation stone on 7 October, nine months later than planned, after the competition office cleared the tender. OHLA ŽS has two construction seasons; trial running is set for the end of 2028.
CZK 1.62 Million a Parking Space: Prague Opens the Country's Dearest Park-and-Ride at Opatov
The four-storey garage beside metro C took 663.8 million crowns excluding VAT for 495 cars. A comparable building in České Budějovice cost 175 million. The rooftop park is not finished.
TSK Puts the Half-Built Bridge at Libeň Back Out to Tender, for up to CZK 237 Million
A court upheld the ban on the old contract in May. Rather than finish the U Loděnice bridge provisionally, the roads authority is competing the remaining work on the part-built structure — the first step to getting trams back between Libeň and Holešovice.
Restorers Start on the Golden Lane's Facades, Working Back to Trnka's 1955 Colours for 6.5 Million
The Prague Castle Administration says the lane was last reconstructed fifteen years ago and cracks have opened in the renders. Work starts at house No. 12 by Daliborka; No. 19 is left out, with its structure in bad enough shape to need a project of its own.
Praha 2 Will Pave the Lawn Tourists Stand On to Photograph the Dancing House
A CZK 35 million redesign of Jiráskovo náměstí over the next two years replaces part of the ruined grass with paving, restores Vlastislav Hofman's Cubist fountain to working order and moves the Jirásek monument.
Ground Broken at Strahov for the Seventh New Tram Line Started This Term
Trial running with passengers is now set for mid-2028, a year later than DPP once planned. Vaníčkova gets three lanes, Malovanka loses its present stops, and the loop by the stadium becomes a shared terminus for trams, buses and trolleybuses.
Seven Firms Will Build the Smíchov Terminal for CZK 6.2 Billion, a Billion Under the 2023 Assumption
Prague's councillors signed off the winning bid at their last meeting before the election. Construction waits on the platform piers Správa železnic is building and will then sell to the city.
A Crane Seats the Last Steel Over Nádražní on Two October Nights
Správa železnic says two steel structures go in on the nights of 6–7 and 8–9 October, completing the crossing whose first part was lowered in July last year. The finished bridge over Nádražní is the only three-track structure on the stretch between Smíchov station and the Vltava.
The Heritage Tram Drops Vinohrady and Runs to Masaryk Station Instead
From 19 September line 23 ends at Bílá labuť rather than Zvonařka, a change ROPID files under permanent. Neither the organiser nor the operator says why.
Prague Airport's Board Votes the Departure Charge Up Six Per Cent, to CZK 723
Radomír Lašák's first substantial decision as chairman raises the fee an airline pays for each departing passenger from CZK 682 to CZK 723, from the end of March 2027. He told Czech Television it still has to be discussed with the airlines — the airport's own published invitation put that meeting on 16 September.
Libuš Metro Station Goes Out to Tender at 3.755 Billion, With Price the Only Criterion
DPP wants a contractor for the sixth station of the shortest operable stretch of line D, built in 54 months from site handover and open with the rest in 2032. The winner will not dig the tunnels — those arrive already bored.
A 1980s Nursery on Barrandov Is to Become Six Classrooms and Flats for Teachers
Prague 5 now has a study for converting the building in Renoirova street into the lower stage of a primary school. New housing on Barrandov is filling the schools at V Remízku and Chaplinovo náměstí, and the district is reaching for a building it already owns.
Prague 10 Signs Six Residents' Associations Into the Redevelopment of the Town Hall It Sold
The district sold the derelict old town hall, the Eden cultural centre and the land around them for 1.117 billion crowns in June. On 29 September it signed an agreement with six owners' associations from the Vlasta estate, who are to take part in preparing the architectural competition.
CAMP Moves Into a 1915 Engineering Hall in Karlín for At Least Three Years
From November the city's architecture centre is at Pobřežní 20a, in a hall built for the Havelka & Mész works and later part of ČKD Dukla. It opens with a reading room, and the alterations are meant to be reversible.
Prague 1 Answers the Kampa Rumours Line by Line: No Hidden Design, No Stage, No Cycle Highway
With the competition authority's decision final since 10 September, the argument about Kampa has moved from procurement to what the scheme actually contains. The district has published a point-by-point rebuttal and a list of things that will not be built.
The Winning Design Takes 15 Percent of the Parking off Náměstí Svatopluka Čecha. A Third of the Room Wanted More
Prague 10 has published the record of the second public hearing on ra15's competition-winning scheme for the Vršovice square. It puts the parking cut at about 15 percent — and notes that just over a third of those present, six of them living on the square, raised a hand for a deeper one.
Nádražní Shuts for Sixteen Days While the Second Half of the Railway Bridge Goes In
Prague 5 says the street closes from the evening of 2 October to the morning of 19 October for the erection of a steel railway bridge structure, with trams out between Na Knížecí and Smíchovské nádraží from 3 to 18 October. It is the half that makes the bridge three-track.
A Kilometre Without a Stop Ends on 7 October. Hodkovičky Gets the Tram Stop 164 Residents Asked For
The new request stop halves the gap between Černý kůň and Belárie on the Modřany line, at a cost of around 27 million crowns excluding VAT. It was meant to open in the spring.
The Overpass Velká Chuchle Argued Over for Years Now Has Its Foundations. The Level Crossing Goes in 2027
Správa železnic says the 474.6-million-crown bridge over the Praha–Beroun line has finished its earthworks and moved to the deck. When it opens, crossing P261 is abolished and a pedestrian underpass replaces it.
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.
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.
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 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.
Eighteen 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.
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.
The 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.
Metro 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.
Bus 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.
The 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.
Architecture 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.
Four Teams Left in the Competition for Budějovická, With a Winner Due in November
A8000, UNIT architekti, Harmonic + Masson & Associés and Howells will develop their concepts further for the 40,000-square-metre block around the metro station. The competition was called by Penta Real Estate with DBK, the city and Praha 4.
The City Has Picked the Architects for a Thousand Rental Flats at Nové Dvory
Pražská developerská společnost chose re:architekti and Apropos Architects out of thirty studios for the blocks around a metro D station that is not due to open before the second half of 2032. Two more buildings, sitting directly on top of the station, are still being prepared.
The Petřín Funicular Reopens on Tuesday. Its Stations Stay Inaccessible Until 2030
Two years after extreme rainfall wrecked the track and part of the hillside, DPP starts trial operation with passengers on 22 September. The single fare goes from 60 to 100 crowns, the downhill trip no longer calls at Nebozízek, and step-free access to the lower station is still at the project-preparation stage.
The 4.79-Billion Rebuild Nobody Is Meant to Notice
Reconstruction of the old water line at Prague's central wastewater treatment plant on Císařský ostrov starts on 1 October and runs 43 months. A consortium led by SMP Construction has the contract; the 2019 line takes the whole city's sewage in the meantime.
Praha 8 Has Finished the Chapel at the Bohnice Asylum Cemetery, and It Has No Roof
OHA architects kept the surviving perimeter walls and put an open steel structure where the roof was. The 8.5-million-crown rebuild opens to the public on 1 October; the paths, the mound and the cross come next.
Náplavka's New Benches Took Twelve Years and One Prototype Left Out in the Weather
Twenty-seven oak seating arrangements are going in along Rašínovo nábřeží, bolted to steel frames set in concrete so the Vltava can wash over them. The contract is 4.121 million crowns before VAT and the material was chosen after a single prototype was left untreated for eight and a half years.
Barrandov Gets a Secondary School on Paper, on Land the District Already Owns
Praha 5's development committee has seen the concept study for a 480-pupil secondary school on the triangle between Högerova, K Barrandovu and Štěpařská. The district took the study off the city's hands to speed the preparation up.
Metro D's Vinohrady Terminus Has Been Drawn, but It Has Not Been Designed
DPP has published Metroprojekt's visualisations of Náměstí Míru and Nusle — a mined single-vault station forty metres down, and a cut-and-cover box thirteen metres down. What they show is not the architecture: that is to come from a competition DPP is still hiring an organiser for.
Chybík + Krištof Will Draw the Ground Around Nádraží Holešovice
The Brno studio has won the competition run by Nové Holešovice, the joint venture of DPP and private developers, for the plots north of Plynární. The jury bought arched halls over the interchange, a railway viaduct given shops and culture, and a rotated tower as the landmark.
Smíchov City's Investor Will Pay 120 Million Towards the School the District Could Not Afford
Hrotano Czech has given the City of Prague a donation the city assembly accepted last week. Prague 5 handed the 1.16-billion primary school over to the city in July because building it exceeded what a district can carry.
Smíchov's Station Building Will Not Be Touched Until 2029, a Year After the Tracks Are Done
Správa železnic's head of construction preparation told the Prague Transport Forum that the reconstruction and a new southern wing could start in 2029 and take two years. Sudop is drawing the documentation.
An Art Competition Opens for a Plaque on the Building Where the Roma Transports Were Organised
Živá paměť and the Academy of Fine Arts want a design for Bartolomějská 10 from artists under 35 by 21 November. A six-member jury including descendants of survivors will judge it.
A Firm That Never Bid Held Kampa Up for Months. The Competition Authority Has Now Dismissed It
ÚOHS has confirmed Prague 1's tender and the decision is final, so the district can sign with Konsorcium park KAMPA at 51,899,816 crowns excluding VAT — about 16.7 million under the budget it had approved.
The Ring Road's Haul Route Has Become a Public Street Between Lochkov and Slivenec
Prague has opened 2.3 kilometres of road rebuilt from the construction access ŘSD laid more than a decade ago and left unused. Three hundred days of work, just under 30 million crowns against a 52-million estimate.
Prague 10 Now Sends Someone to Walk the Malešice Building Sites Every Day
After a 10 September meeting with the transport company, the water utility and the Počernická tram contractors, the district has put a staff member on the ground daily, extracted direct contacts and promised a single website with every schedule on it. If new contaminants turn up in the spoil, work stops.
ŘSD Paid 190 Million Above the Cheapest Bid to Rebuild the Ring Road Bridge Five Months Faster
A Metrostav TBR and FIRESTA consortium has signed the contract to demolish and rebuild the D0 bridge over Počernický rybník as a six-lane structure. It was not the cheapest of five bids; ŘSD gave a fifth of the score to how long the restriction would last.
Line 145 Will Stop at Kuchyňka, Putting the First Break in Its Run Under the Hill
From 29 September the Blanka tunnel bus calls at the Pelc–Tyrolka campus, after repeated approaches from Prague 8 and a formal request from Charles University. The line was timetabled in August to run V Holešovičkách without stopping at all.
At Nádraží Krč the City Will Build the Station Hall and Then Give It Away
Prague's assembly signed off the property deal that makes the metro D station, a P+R car park and a rebuilt railway station at Krč one construction site. The city demolishes the old station building and puts up the new one; Správa železnic will own it, and DPP will run the metro's control room inside it.
The Industrial Palace Opens for Seventeen Days, Then Goes Back to Work
Eighteen years after fire took its left wing and four and a half years after the builders moved in, the Výstaviště landmark is finished. The public gets guided tours from 25 September to 11 October; after that it returns to being a hall for fairs and events, starting with Designblok.
Prague Lends Praha 7 the Last 166 Million for a School It Cannot Fill Yet
City councillors approved a repayable 165.8-million-crown advance to Praha 7 for the Jan Vodňanský primary school on Jankovcova, closing the financing on a 903-million-crown building. The district's six schools are full; its own demographic study expects 4,500 school-age children by 2029.
The Petřín Funicular Returns on 22 September, and the Fare Rises to a Hundred Crowns
Two years after heavy rain ended the third-generation funicular's life, DPP will start trial passenger service with the new cars at 7am on 22 September. The rebuilt track cost 134 million crowns, the two cars 137.7 million, and the single ticket goes from 60 crowns to 100.
Parking or Planting: Prague 10 Calls a Third Meeting on Náměstí Svatopluka Čecha
Two summer meetings drew about 75 and 40 people and produced a split the architects now have to resolve — more greenery against keeping the parking. A third session comes in the autumn, and heritage protection of the views to St Wenceslas already limits what can be planted in the middle.
Flora's Lift Shafts Break Through to the Platform, With the Lifts Themselves Still Eighteen Months Away
STRABAG and OHLA ŽS have holed through from the new shafts into the existing station, finishing the mining phase of Flora's step-free access. DPP expects the lifts to run at the end of February 2028, after which 12 of Prague's 61 metro stations remain inaccessible.
A New Pavilion at Zlíchov More Than Doubles a School Prague Has Too Few Of
The city has finished the new pavilion at the primary school for pupils with specific behavioural disorders at Zlíchov, lifting first-stage capacity from 50 pupils to 120. It is fully barrier-free, it brings the school the gym it never had, and the next stage — rebuilding the older building — starts now.
The Eastern City Ring Loses Its Congestion Charge Condition and Gains a Tunnel One
Designers finished the permit documentation for the missing eastern section this month and will file with DESÚ in December. August's updated environmental decision drops the requirement for a central congestion charge and for the outer ring, but ties three sections to a tunnel that will not be finished until 2033.
Five Billion, Three Years and a Bribery Case: the Oncology Centre at Motol Opens
The National Oncology Centre at Motol and Na Homolce opened on 9 September at a cost of CZK 4.96 billion, most of it EU money from the National Recovery Plan. It will lift the hospital's oncology capacity by 40 percent. Its construction outlasted the hospital management that started it, a corruption investigation and a fire in the new cladding a week before the ribbon.
A Parking Space at Dědina Cost 1.38 Million Crowns
Prague 6's new 290-space parking house opened three years after the tram it was promised alongside, two years after the site was handed over for a twelve-month build, and about 80 million crowns above the tendered price.
Carbon Strips Buy the Výtoň Bridge Two More Years
Správa železnic starts gluing CFRP laminates onto the fatigued diagonals of the railway bridge at Výtoň next week. Six weeks of work, no change to the one-train, 20 km/h regime, and a decision on the bridge's future promised before the year is out.
A Greyhound Track on Plzeňská Becomes Prague's Missing Western Athletics Stadium
Councillors picked VYSSPA Sports Technology on 7 September to design and build an eight-lane, 400-metre oval on the site the city bought from its own tenant last year. The bid of 70.35 million crowns before VAT came in 10.4 million under the estimate; opening is expected in 2028.
Prague Trades Land at the Main Station for the Ground the Philharmonic Stands On
Councillors approved a swap with Správa železnic on 7 September: the railway gets plots in Nové Město and Vinohrady for the main station's departure hall, the city gets the Holešovice land it needs for the concert hall, and the railway pays 152 million crowns for the difference.
Water Returns to the Kranner Fountain After an Eighteen-Month Restoration Begins
Prague 1 has started work on the Monument to Emperor Francis I on Smetanovo nábřeží. A retendered contract went to Agentura „Jan Zrzavý“ at 16.9 million crowns before VAT — some 45 per cent under the estimate — and includes repairing the water technology so the fountain runs again.
Prague 10 Calls the Diggers to One Table: Who Is Responsible for Malešice?
The mayor is convening the contractors of the Počernická tram line, Pražské vodovody a kanalizace and the utility firms after months of overlapping excavations, closures and burst mains. The district is not the investor in most of the works — and says that is not the same as having nothing to answer for.
The Airport Approach Clears Its Appeal: Six Lanes, and a Road Bent Around a Runway
The Ministry of Transport has dismissed appeals by three residents of Nebušice and Číčovice against the planning decision for rebuilding I/7 between the Ruzyně and Aviatická interchanges. ŘSD now expects a building permit in 2027, construction from 2028 and completion in 2031.
The Ring Road's Biggest Noise Bund Is Made of Soil That Will Not Hold
ŘSD planned to bury the spoil from the whole Běchovice–D1 section inside a ten-metre embankment at the Dubeč junction. The material turns to mud when wet, and the reinforced sections now have to be redesigned.
Prague Takes Ownership of Eleven Bozankaya Trolleybuses, and Bus 137 Is Next to Go
The acceptance protocol was signed on Friday after months of deadlock. Three vehicles are fit for service, one ran on line 51 the same weekend, and once the other eight are finished DPP says the 137 bus will be converted permanently into trolleybus route 52.
Trams Return to the National Museum Nearly Six Months Early
Lines 11 and 13 run through Muzeum again from Saturday morning. The build took under fifteen months instead of twenty, the stops are step-free for the first time, and five illuminated warning strips along the rails are the first in Prague.
Prague Airport Buys Five More Passport Desks, and Three Shops Come Out to Fit Them
CZK 259.8m of building work in Terminal 1 starts this month and runs to the end of April, at night and under full operation. Counters go from 12 to 17, e-gates from 9 to 13, and Costa Coffee, Food Lovers and Relay are removed from the perimeter wall.
A Derelict Strip by Nádraží Holešovice Opens as Spot Holešovice
CZK 6.5m has turned the ground between Plynární and Vrbenského into an adventure playground, a sports yard and a rest area — the third such conversion in Praha 7 this year, and the district's own staff helped build it.
Lesovna Opens in Suchdol: 405 Cubic Metres of Czech Timber, and a Government Target Attached
The forestry faculty's new CZK 49m research building by Mjölk architekti is 581 square metres of exposed timber structure. It was opened by the prime minister, who used it to restate a target of a quarter of new buildings in timber by 2035.
DPP Buys the Study That Decides How Metro D Reaches the Two Main Stations
A consortium of Metroprojekt, Sudop and Mott MacDonald will spend CZK 12.85m working out a 2.2-kilometre extension from Náměstí Míru to Náměstí Republiky — and whether the line should instead branch towards Žižkov.
Prague Castle Will Compete the Stájový Dvůr This Winter, Picking Up an Unfinished 1990s Idea
The Renaissance stables courtyard behind the wall of U Prašného mostu is to become a visitor and information centre. The competition is announced for the winter months or early next year, and the castle skyline is the constraint the entrants will have to answer.
Prague 6 Opens Two School Buildings on the First Day of Term, at a Combined CZK 276m
A passive-standard pavilion on Na Kocínce for 240 pupils and a rebuilt nursery in Liboc for 110 children. The city paid CZK 118m of it; the district found the rest.
Prague 7 Paints Three Streets Around Its Holešovice Schools, With a Fourth Due in September
Rajská, Plynární and Jablonského were repainted over the summer holidays under the district's asfalt art programme. Antonínská, the link between Strossmayerovo náměstí and Vltavská, is next.
Prague Approves a CZK 1.03bn School for 1,152 Pupils at Západní Město, With CZK 112m From Developers
The city council signed off the Stodůlky campus as a new investment on 31 August. Design documentation, a final permission and construction documentation are all in hand. The start date is not.
Prague Starts Building the Olšanská–Habrová Tram — and Its First Single-Track Section Since 1983
1.9 km for CZK 599.2m, six stops, twelve months of work, and a 600-metre single-track stretch deliberately built cheap because the Jarovská třída will one day cut through it.
Prague Files for Permission to Build the Vltava Philharmonic — and for CZK 5bn of Ground Around It
The application went in on 31 August: a CZK 12.33bn concert building plus public space, a new embankment and transport works. Permission is expected in early 2027, construction in early 2028, trial operation in 2033 — with state funding still unsettled.
Bohdalec's 1913 Truss Overpass Reopens After Its Second Overhaul
The riveted steel span that carries Moskevská over the Vršovice marshalling yard returns to full traffic on Monday. TSK worked above a live rail corridor on a structure built as a close relative of the bridge at Výtoň.
Four and a Half Years Later, Ke Štvanici Reopens: the Florenc Slab Is Done
DPP has finished the ceiling slab over the Florenc vestibule — 48 replaced beams, roughly CZK 2bn, and a hoarding that has stood since March 2022. The underpass itself, and two of the exits, wait until December.
Pod Krejcárkem Bridge Reopens on the Last Day of the Holidays
TSK has finished the road bridge linking Ohrada with Palmovka after work that ran from April. The diverted bus lines return to their normal routes.
Plzeňská Reopens Before Saturday Rush — and TSK Abandons the Concrete Kerbs Prague 5 Objected To
Works that began in February between Mozartova and Pod Kotlářkou clear the street by 4:30 on Saturday morning. The district also got the city's road authority to drop plastic kerbs filled with concrete at five junctions, days before they were to go in.
Bollards Under the Church: Prague 7 Closes the Rat-Run Past Stross School
TSK changed the signage, added blocking bollards and new road markings at the junction below sv. Antonín on 28 August, ending a shortcut that carried centre-bound drivers off Bubenská into a calmed residential area. Emergency vehicles and refuse collection keep access.
Prague 14 Breaks Ground on a CZK 950m School at Jahodnice After Two Stopgaps
Eighteen homerooms for 540 pupils on U Hostavického potoka, built design-and-build by Metrostav, with CZK 350m from the city. It is the third answer the district has given to the same shortage in four years.
The K Prádelně Bridge Over the Botič Comes Down on 1 September, and a Wider One Replaces It
TSK has BM Constructions demolishing the road bridge in Záběhlice and building a single-span monolithic frame on micropiles in its place, with the Botič channel reshaped underneath. Full closure until 15 December, and the pond dam is shut to walkers and cyclists too.
One Bid, CZK 1.221bn, and Prague 6 Walks Away From Its Cultural Centre Tender
The only offer for the concert hall in the fourth quadrant of Vítězné náměstí came in at half again the expected price. The district will cancel the procedure and re-tender in February 2027.
Thirty Trolleybuses Sit in Řepy While Prague Argues Over a Translation
The Bozankaya SNG 12T fleet has had type approval since April, but DPP still has not taken delivery — the dispute is now about Czech documentation, not hardware. ROPID has three versions of the new timetables ready.
The Ring Road's Missing Link Slips to the Second Half of 2028 — and Gets Dearer
Tunnel tubes are taking shape at Na Vysoké and Dubeč on the 12.5km D0 section between Běchovice and the D1. Unexpected geology has pushed the opening back from the end of 2027 and added hundreds of millions to a CZK 9.8bn contract.
A Symbolic Key for Invalidovna: CZK 2.15bn and Four Years to 2030
The National Heritage Institute has started the largest project in its history. Two new wings by Petr Hájek go up on the southern plot, the Prague Philharmonic Choir gets a home, and the site changes hands to the builders on 31 August.
Six Weeks Without Trams to Nákladové Nádraží Žižkov — Because the New Line Is Finally Starting
From 29 August to 10 October the track east of Olšanské náměstí closes for preparatory work on the Olšanská–Habrová line. Line 34 disappears, line 26 stops short, and line 5 is rerouted across a bridge that reopens to trams on 31 August.
A Bus Through Blanka: Line 145 Puts Kobylisy Twenty Minutes from Dejvice
The first PID service to use the Blanka tunnel complex started on 15 August, running every six minutes at the morning peak. A wider network shake-up follows on 29 August, including unified weekend timetables on the metro.
Twenty Months On, Žofín Still Has the Wrong Tenant
Prague 1 awarded the riverside palace to a new operator at double the rent in September 2024. The old tenant has not moved out, and in June an appellate court sent the eviction case back to be heard again by a different judge.
Three Town Halls Force the Roztocká Lane Closure to End — and Are Told the Street Will Be Dug Up Again
PVS wanted to keep the four-lane approach from Suchdol down to two until the end of September. After protests from Prague 6, Suchdol and Roztoky, full traffic returns on 6 September — but the pumping station rebuild is not finished.
Palata II Tops Out: 73 Dementia Beds in Košíře, Due April 2027
Prague has formally launched its first mental health centre for seniors, in rented rooms on Starokošířská. The building that is meant to anchor it is already structurally complete next door.
Prague Puts a Listed Farmstead in Suchdol Out to Tender as a CZK 1.07bn Gymnázium
Brandejsův statek gets 12 classrooms for 408 students, two new buildings and a design-and-build contract — while the city police keep their horses on site.
Rotten Beams Above the Platform Push Flora's Reopening to February — and Hradčanská Closes Anyway
DPP found the ceiling slab at Flora far worse than its surveys predicted. The station stays shut three months longer than planned, and for two of those months line A will be missing two stations at once.
Trams Head Up to Strahov: DPP Signs a CZK 824m Contract for the Malovanka Line
The winning bid came in almost CZK 196 million under the estimate. Eighteen months of works will rebuild Vaníčkova and Bělohorská along with 1.3 km of new double track.
Park Maniny Starts This Year: Prague Digs Down to Let the Vltava Back In
Fifty-six hectares between Hlávkův Bridge and the Libeňské kosy become a flood park by 2035. The central move is lowering ground that was raised with spoil from the metro.
Prager's Cubes Come Apart Before They Go Back Together
A 1.4-billion-crown reconstruction of Karel Prager's 1973 complex at Emauzy starts by cataloguing everything worth keeping — then taking the building to pieces rather than knocking it down.