Sulická Closes for More Than Seven Months From 25 November as Metro D Digs Into Krč

From 25 November Sulická street in Krč will be closed between Branická and Pod Višňovkou, and it will stay closed until 30 June 2027. The city presented the schedule on 10 November, together with a string of further restrictions tied to building two metro D stations, Nádraží Krč and Nemocnice Krč, according to Zdopravy.cz. The reason for the Sulická closure is the relocation of utility networks and preparation of the station's construction pit.

This is the point at which the second section of metro D stops being a contract and starts being a change to how the south of the city moves. The areas hit hardest are around Krč railway station, Thomayer hospital and Nové Dvory.

Where the cars go

The expectation is that a large share of the traffic now using Sulická will shift onto Vídeňská, which is already busy; queues there are estimated to grow by at least half. The city says it tried to keep the closure as short as possible and to coordinate the individual works.

Around the closure the street network is being rearranged. Entry from Zálesí into Štúrova and into Pod Višňovkou towards Sulická will be restricted. Traffic coming up Štúrova from the south will be sent onto Vídeňská, and Štúrova gets reserved bus lanes. From the north, Štúrova and Pod Višňovkou stay reachable from Vídeňská and from U Krčského nádraží.

Two changes go the other way. On the same day the Jižní spojka on- and off-ramp at V Podzámčí, closed until now, reopens, and at the Jižní spojka × Vídeňská interchange the turning lanes and ramps get more capacity.

While Sulická is shut, Nádraží Krč railway station and the grounds of Krč chateau can be reached by car only from Jižní spojka in the direction from Černý Most, past the OMV filling station and along Před Nádražím.

Three bus lines lose Nádraží Krč

Lines 117, 121 and 203 are all affected, and none of them will serve the Nádraží Krč stop for the duration. Line 121 will run between Na Staré cestě and Višňová via Nad Rybníky, Rosečská, U Labutě and Nad Havlem. Lines 117 and 203 will be diverted via U Labutě, and the other stops they miss will be covered by line 121.

January brings the next round

In the first half of January the end of Branická between Dolnokrčská and Na Strži closes. Traffic will move onto a temporary road now being built to join Branická to Sulická, and at the same time the closed stretch of Sulická will get shorter.

For the Nemocnice Krč station, part of the Zálesí × Vídeňská junction will close and be replaced by a temporary road running north of the present junction towards Kačerov, due to open in the first half of January 2027. North–south traffic on Vídeňská keeps its current capacity, and so does public transport there.

Around Krč station the utility relocations continue, along with work on the Zámecké napajedlo pond and an increase in the capacity of the Kunratický potok stream. At Pankrác, the underpass beneath Na Pankráci is due to be finished by 18 December. A detailed list of the closures is published on opravujeme.to.

The section behind it

Construction of the second part of metro D started in June. It runs about 2.9 kilometres from Ryšánka, the station originally called Olbrachtova, to Nové Dvory, with three new stations: Nádraží Krč, Nemocnice Krč and Nové Dvory. The contract, worth CZK 29.99 billion excluding VAT, went to a consortium of Subterra, Hochtief CZ, Hochtief Infrastructure and BeMo Tunneling, which began the first tunnelling in September.

Work on the first part, from Pankrác to Ryšánka, began in April 2022. On the current schedule the transport company DPP expects the first operable section, Pankrác to Nové Dvory, to open in the second half of 2032, with driverless trains.

Seven months of Sulická is the price of that date. It is also the first closure on this section long enough to change habits rather than merely interrupt them, and the January changes at Branická and Zálesí suggest it will not be the last.