Public transport could return to normal in September. But the subway will still not run after midnight
Fill it in from the document discussed by the Municipal Transport Committee on Wednesday. Public transport is now running due to the covid-19 pandemic according to the modified regulations and some connections have been restricted. Due to the pandemic, the number of passengers decreased.
“From September, we can hope and believe in the transition to full operation,” Petr Tomčík, director of the Ropid organization, which has Prague’s public transport, told the committee.
However, the development of coronavirus infection will depend. The basic scenario of changes now works with the assumption that there will be a gradual loosening of government measures and that life will return to the situation shortly before the covid from about September. According to Ropid Deputy Director Martin Šubrt, the number of passengers is rising and according to Ropid’s forecast, they should have a child in the coming weeks.
An exception to the normal situation before the pandemic would be the earlier termination of metro operation from September. It will end between 23:00 and 23:30. The night operation of trams and buses should not return to normal.
The night tram 99 will return
From Friday, April 30, the operation of the night tram line 99 will be resumed. The intervals of the night bus number 912 will be shortened to 30 minutes and on lines 913 and 916 to 60 minutes. From May 10, the operation of the metro should be postponed by one hour compared to the current situation, when the last trains will depart from the final ones at 23:00 to 23:05.
Until the beginning of the summer holidays, the connections will run according to “covid” timetables, and from 1 July, public transport would be switched to holiday timetables, which were valid last year. This means greater restrictions outside peak hours and on weekends, especially in bus transport. Similarly, tram timetables affect the closure from 21 June to Palackého náměstí and subsequently Národní třída.
Due to coronavirus in the capital alone, approximately 60 percent of passengers use public transport on weekdays against normal. The biggest drop is in the metro, which was used daily by about 1.2 million passengers before the covid. The largest decrease in passengers so far was last March, over 80 percent.
Passengers must have a respirator or nanotowder in public transport in Prague, it is forbidden to get on trams and buses through the front door. Public transport runs according to limited timetables.