“The planned terminal with the working name Prague East will serve mainly the inhabitants of the north-eastern part of the Central Bohemian Region and the adjacent areas of the capital. The purpose of building this peripheral station is primarily to enable people living in the vicinity to take advantage of high-speed rail transport without having to drive to the city center, “the Railway Administration said in a press release.

According to foreign experience (similar transport constructions on the outskirts of large cities are common in France, for example), the organization under the Ministry of Transport, led by Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Industry and Trade Karel Havlíček (ANO), will give the new terminal an impetus to develop the surrounding area. Therefore, the architectural competition also had an urban part, in which the author’s teams developed their visions of what the wider surroundings of the modern railway station should look like. The connection to the nearby D11 motorway was also addressed.

New point on the railway map. A high-speed train terminal will be built on the outskirts of Prague

“The proposals examined several approaches, from relatively dense urban development to the open countryside and the gradual rebirth from the station in the open countryside to the possible center of the new city. The discussion on the integration of the new station would not be possible without so many different perspectives and will certainly continue at the level of the region and surrounding municipalities. The Railway Administration will present all submitted proposals online, about which it will be informed in a timely manner, “promised Nela Friebová, a spokeswoman for SŽ.

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“Of course, everyone has different ideas, different tastes, but I believe you will appreciate its appearance. For the fact that I greatly appreciated the professionalism of the experts in choosing the final form of the terminal and that I greatly appreciated that everyone accepted the Nehvizd view, which I promoted as one of the jurors in the competition, “said Jiří Poběrežský, mayor of Central Bohemia. According to the town hall, one of Nehvizd’s conditions was also the incorporation of a cycle path to the new transport terminal.

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In addition to the visualizations of the winning design, you can now get acquainted with the work of the Prague company “ra15”, which finished the second and third SBS Engineering Group from Poland. The expert jury also praised the other two for “originality and quality”.

The railway terminal is enough for a fast train connection for regular commutes to the center of Prague with a travel time of about fifteen minutes and high-speed connections to Brno, Jihlava, Ostrava, Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Ústí nad Labem, Dresden or Vienna. SŽ estimates the total investment in the station in Nehvizdy at CZK 780 million. Trains could run on VRT at speeds of up to 300 km / h. Implementation is expected to begin around 2025.