Transport
Metro, trams, rail and cycling infrastructure.
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.
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.
DPP 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.
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.
A 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.
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.
Prague 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.
One Vltava Bridge a Year: TSK Publishes Its Repair Order to 2033
The series starts with Štefánik bridge in 2028, then Mánes, Čech, Legií and Palacký in turn, with Hlávka and two Libeň structures running alongside. It is the first time the roads authority has set out its river bridges as one programme — and all but Palacký already have money.
Trolleybuses Take Over Lines 51 and 53 at Weekends; Buses 131 and 176 Are Weeks From Ending
DPP has accepted fifteen more Bozankaya vehicles and now owns twenty-eight of the thirty delivered. From 17 October only trolleybuses run to Bořislavka and Strahov at weekends, and once the new batch is ready the diesel lines go altogether.
České dráhy Sign Prague's 30-Year Suburban Rail Contract Without a Contract for the Trains
Prague, Central Bohemia and České dráhy signed the 165-billion-crown EMU 400 operating contract on 16 October. The new trains it depends on are still tied up at the competition office, where Stadler opened a second case against Škoda's win the same week.
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.
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.
Prague's Election Winner Wants the Annual Pass at 4,750 Crowns and a Toll Inside the City Ring
Petr Hlaváček, whose STAN took 23.17 percent and 17 seats, has named the transport items he will carry into coalition talks: fares, parking, and a charge for driving into the centre. Zdopravy.cz reads the first as quick and the third as unlikely.
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.
The Firm That Built the Trams Wanted 71 Percent More to Cool Them
The awarder's written report on DPP's air-conditioning tender, published now that the pilot 15T has reached Łódź, puts Škoda Pars at 5.489 million crowns a car against ENIKA's 3.217 million. All three bidders offered the same warranty, which left price deciding everything.
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.
Twenty-Three Units Short of Fifty-Seven: ČD Changes How It Schedules Repairs After Central Bohemia Threatens Maximum Penalties
On Monday 23 CityElefant units were out of service against an operational need of 57, with five RegioPanters missing as well, and peak trains ran as single three-car sets. České dráhy has now committed to a second check on repair scheduling, more depot capacity and a 6 p.m. warning the night before a train runs short. It paid 46 million crowns in penalties last year and had another 31 million imposed in the first half of this one.
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.
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.
The First of 123 Trams Leaves for Łódź to Have Air Conditioning Fitted
Škoda 15T number 9239 was loaded at DPP's central workshops on Thursday. Three units per car, 3.217 million crowns each excluding VAT, 395.685 million for the whole first series — and nothing else moves until this one passes homologation.
DPP Wants Six More Rebuilt T3s. ROPID Says Stop Buying Obsolete Trams
An order for six further T3R.PLF cars is being discussed inside the transport company. The city's transport organiser objects, and the argument goes to a meeting at City Hall with the city leadership in the room.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The High-Speed Line's Only Prague Section Goes to Tender for 300 Million
Správa železnic's board has approved a designer contract for the northern branch from Praha-Vršovice to Praha-Běchovice. It is short by high-speed standards and the most complicated piece, because it is the part inside the city.
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 Tells the Government to Leave Its Savings Alone. The Transport Minister Says He Is Not Prague's Minister
City councillors have passed a resolution against extending VAT to public transport compensation — a change Adam Scheinherr puts at up to six billion crowns a year — and against the state road fund pulling out of Prague's roads. Ivan Bednárik's answer: co-finance 30 to 40 percent and he will listen.
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.
The Metro's Countdown Screens Are Being Redrawn, and the Countdown Itself Is Being Made to Last Longer
PID and DPP are rolling out new graphics on the IPOČ panels at station entrances and testing, at selected stations, a longer display of the next train. The old timing assumed you stand still on the escalator; most passengers walk.
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.
Metro D May Reach Libuš Without Being Able to Turn Round There
The line's chief engineer says Libuš could open with the second section, but the turnback sidings are at Nové Dvory — so trains would run Pankrác–Nové Dvory with one or two shuttles beyond. Písnice looks a year or two behind, and the documentation for Pankrác–Náměstí Míru has just gone in.
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.
Prague Commissions a Feasibility Study for a Fifth Metro Line It Cannot Currently Afford
City councillors approved on 7 September that IPR should prepare a feasibility study for a Smíchov–Pankrác–Bohdalec–Žižkov–Vysočany–Letňany route. Fully underground it would cost around 220 billion crowns, so the study will also weigh surface metro and light rail.
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.
Ten Trains Short on Wednesday, Three on Thursday — and No Reserve Either Way
České dráhy had 24 of the 71 CityElefant units serving Prague and Central Bohemia out of service on 9 September against an operational need of 57. Lines S1, S9 and partly S7 ran single units where they normally run pairs, and Central Bohemia said the operator would be fined. By the next morning the gap was down to three. Fitting ETCS before the 13 December switch to exclusive operation is one of the named causes, and it is not finished.
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.
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.
Two Bids to Design the High-Speed Line Out of Běchovice, Both Under the Cap
Správa železnic opened bids for the design of 106 kilometres of high-speed railway from Prague-Běchovice to Světlá nad Sázavou. Bidders had called the 370-million ceiling too low; two of them went under it anyway, and two firms are challenging the tender at the competition authority.
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.
Prague Orders 25 More 52T Trams in Eight Days, Ahead of New Cyber Rules
The city council released 1.232 billion crowns on 7 September for a fourth batch of Škoda ForCity 52T cars, half of it from EU funds. Councillors say the hurry is a European cyber-security regulation that would raise the price and stretch delivery once it applies.
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.
Prague Retenders Its Bikeshare Subsidy and Pays More to Reach the Edges
The city cabinet has approved a 50-million-crown procurement for the PID Lítačka bike benefit. Subsidised rides go from two a day to four, and a coefficient will pay operators double for trips in the outer city.
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.
A Thirty-Year, 165-Billion Contract for Prague's Suburban Trains Goes to a Vote
Central Bohemian councillors and Prague's city cabinet were due to approve the EMU 400 package with České dráhy on 7 September. One obstacle is left: an antitrust case over the trains themselves.
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.
The Coaches for Prague–Munich Go Out to Tender Five Years Before They Run
Netinera has opened the vehicle competition on behalf of České dráhy and Die Länderbahn: at least 500 seats a train, air conditioning, wi-fi and a hybrid locomotive able to work both countries' wires and run off them. Requests to take part close on 14 September.
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.
Prague Objects to Older, Unair-Conditioned Trains Returning to the Benešov Line
From December, ETCS-only running on Corridor IV pushes three loco-hauled sets onto line S9 in place of CityElefants. The city's transport councillor calls it unacceptable; ROPID says the swap he wants is not available.
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.
The Metro Ring Now Has a Number: CZK 220bn, and a Feasibility Study Due Next Week
Line E would run 22 kilometres from Smíchov to the planned high-speed rail terminal in the north, enlarging the network by 29 percent. Councillors are to commission the study that decides which parts of it are worth building — and which could be a tram instead.
Olbrachtova Becomes Ryšánka, Náměstí Bratří Synků Becomes Nusle — and One Station Still Has No Name
Prague's city council fixed the official names of metro D's stations on 31 August. Two changed, several proposals were turned down, and the terminus is being left open until the district around it is designed.
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.
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.
A CZK 58,000 Recalculation Clears the Prague–Liberec Railway to Keep Moving
Freight hauliers had questioned the traffic assumptions behind the modernisation. Správa železnic rechecked the economics without the Polish freight, found the case still stands, and will tender the permitting documentation for Mladá Boleslav–Turnov this year.
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.
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.
Prague Re-Tenders Free Bikeshare Rides and Doubles the Daily Allowance to Four
A CZK 50m contract for about two years, up to three suppliers, and a coefficient system meant to push shared bikes out to the edges of the city. The single award criterion is the price of one 15-minute ride.
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.
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.
Two Trams Coupled Tail to Tail: Prague Revives a 1983 Trick to Get Through the Autumn Closures
A pair of T3R.PLF cars joined back to back can reverse without a loop. PID confirms DPP is preparing them as a tested fallback for a season with too many closures and not enough bidirectional KT8s.
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.
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.
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.
Prague Has Europe's Best-Value Transit and Its Least Affordable Housing
IPR's updated comparison against eleven peer cities finds a metropolis that solved mobility and did not solve where anyone lives — while car ownership climbs anyway.
Six Years On, Prague's Priority Projects Have Split Into Two Groups
A progress check on the schemes CAMP put on display in 2020 finds bridges opened and tunnels being dug — alongside brownfields still waiting on a study.