“It simply came to our notice then. He will fundamentally change my work with new colors, but no one has turned to me for it, “Kotas complains.

Prague has announced a non-public contract for a new color scheme. Its winner should be known within a few days. However, pictures of the planned redesign of public transport recently appeared in the daily Blesk.

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The new colors are part of the contract called Rebranding PID, which addresses the new visual appearance of Prague’s public transport. Already last week, the STAN movement called on the Prague coalition to postpone the change of colors.

Unification of visual presentation

“Currently, the PID system is expanding throughout the Central Bohemian Region, and therefore is the right time to modernize and unify the visual presentation of the entire system so that its user can clearly identify at first glance that he pays a PID ticket in the vehicle.” square for transport Adam Scheinherr (Prague itself).

According to him, so far the form of means of transport has been dealt with ad hoc in their management and no system solution was available. And that should change. “It is not only the appearance, but also the uniform system of pictograms inside the cars,” explains the councilor.

Does it violate standards?

But according to Kotas, a change in color will also lead to a breach of safety standards. “For example, it doesn’t address the warning colors at the door,” says the designer.

I also point out another problem. Although the city claims that it will not be an additional cost and the new color scheme will be mainly for new vehicles or will be used in the reconstruction, it is said that it is not possible for some changes.

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“The service life of the paint on the M1 meter is the entire duration of its operation; in the case of the 15T trams, a large part of the body parts is made of materials painted in the mass, so it does not have to be painted or repainted,” Kotas added.

The plan also runs into Central Bohemia

According to Scheinherr, the cost of the competition and the manual is up to two million crowns. “All new buses that are purchased will be in a new design. These are not old means of transport, but above all new ones. New vehicles in a modern design do not adapt any translations, “.

However, the plan also runs into the Central Bohemian Region, and President Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová (YES) has already sent a council letter in which she warns against introducing new colors without resolving the dispute with Patrik Kotas. The Central Bohemian Region recently booked a major modernization of buses that run in existing colors.

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