Stretching the subway to the airport cost 27 billion and permanently 11 years, says the analysis
The analysis is the basis for future decisions of the city management whether to start building the extension of metro A.
According to the study, the section to the airport would have five new stations, measuring 6.86 kilometers, and the journey to the airport would take 25 minutes. The route would include the new stations Bílá Hora, Dědina, Dlouhá Míle, Staré Letiště and Václav Havel Airport.
The greatest distance would be between Bílá Hora and Dědina, 2.16 kilometers. On the contrary, the shortest distance of 0.88 kilometers would be between Dědina and Dlouhá Mile.
Václav Havel Airport is designed to be excavated at a depth of 21 meters. It should have a so-called island platform, ie trains would be boarded from the platform between the tracks, as at most Prague stations. The Staré Letiště station should serve not only the original airport, but in the case of construction the entire site.
At Dlouhá Míla, the station is designed to operate together with the planned railway station. “The main importance of this station lies in the possibility of creating a quality transport terminal,” the document said.
Long-distance or suburban buses could end here. The station would be over 33 meters deep. It would include a P + R car park, which was considered in the plans more than ten years ago.
The Dědina station would be northwest of the intersection of Drnovská and Vlastina streets and its east would go directly to the Dědina housing estate. However, its appearance will still need to be elaborated in detail, as in the case of the Václav Havel and Dlouhá Míle Airport stations, the material states.
Due to the stability of the built-up area on the surface, the route should run deeper below Ruzyně than in the other sections. This will also affect the Bílá Hora station, which would be at a depth of 44.4 meters. It was supposed to be central between the intersections of Karlovarská and K Motolu streets and Karlovarská and Thurnová streets.
Between the Motol Hospital and Bílá Hora stations, the route would be built so that, apart from the possible construction of the route to Řep and further to Zličín, where it would connect with route B.
The construction will take eleven years to prepare
6.5 years of construction should prepare the preparation, ie obtaining all the necessary documents. According to the analysis, the construction itself will take 4.5 years. The extension would not require a fundamental change in the spatial plan for transport, nor would it run counter to the principles of territorial development.
The city has already considered extending the metro to the airport in Ruzyně in the past. Originally, the route from Dejvická was to lead to the airport. Eventually, the city decided to turn her to Motol to the hospital and end it here. The building was ceremoniously opened less than three years ago and cost 21 billion crowns.
Prague is also considering the construction of a new section of metro C from Letňany to Čakovice, which would last 12 years and cost 16 billion crowns. The route of line C would be extended by 3.5 kilometers, three more stations would be created on it.
Another possibility of transport to the airport is the modernization of the line from Prague to Kladno with a turn to the airport. In the section between Dejvice and Veleslavín, the line is to lead through a tunnel.
Remember the excavation of the tunnel to the Petřiny metro station (08/2011)