Thanks to the state of emergency, Prague is almost without columns, the peak is another time
“Overall, the movement of people around the city has slowed down to a minimum. People are responsible and they travel around the city minimally. With the declaration of a state of emergency, the decline was not so rapid, but after the ban on the movement of people, a large reduction in the number of trips of Prague residents could be seen in the city, “said Deputy Mayor for Transport Adam Scheinherr (Prague himself).
According to data available to the capital’s management, cars have fallen by almost 35 percent in the city center and by more than 29 percent in the rest of the metropolis. The largest decrease concerns the area around the Ludvík Svoboda embankment, where it fell by more than half, from the original approximately 35,000 cars to about 16,000 cars per day.
The situation is similar on the backbone roads, in addition to Evropská Street, it is also operated several times in V Holešovičkách Street – from 90 to 100,000 to 60 cars a day.
There are more rides in the evening
“It is interesting that the morning and afternoon peaks shifted by two to three hours. They are between nine and 12 o’clock in the morning and between four and eight o’clock in the evening. Another interesting fact is that, despite the total one-third decrease in car travel around Prague, we saw more traffic than usual between eight and nine o’clock in the evening, ”added Scheinherr.
Thanks to the reduction in car traffic, public transport is now also faster and smoother, both for buses and trams, with connection delays falling by as much as 10 percent. On the other hand, Praguers use alternative means to travel around the city, most of all bicycles. I add the column in Podolí, for example, recorded 21 more cyclists than in the previous year.
Prague also used the emergency situation to collect data on the use of the paid parking zone. Monitoring vehicles on the streets currently only collect data for possible future improvements to the zone.
A large decrease in passengers was also recorded by the Prague public transport itself, where up to a million passengers per day were lost in the metro alone.