What does it look like with the construction of a new square in Vysočany or the ambulance’s headquarters in Prague 9? Mayor Tomáš Portlík answered
Prague 9, like other areas of the metropolis, is bothered by a complicated traffic situation and the passage by car through this part of the city is in some places tedious. According to the mayor of Prague 9, Tomáš Portlík, solving this problem with the Prague City Hall is not easy. “Since 2018, the Prague City Council has set a policy of simply not preferring cars – in that program statement, the word ‘car’ will disappear once or twice in my opinion – but that it will prefer all other alternative modes of transport, and will proceed accordingly,” he comments. mayor.
According to him, the difficulty is that the 1st class roads fall under the capital city of Prague. “That is why last year I initiated the creation of the city districts as the main communicator and a point of comment on how the various road modifications will be made, and at the same time that they will regularly comment on individual closures and repairs. Unfortunately, this did not happen. “According to the mayor, it could reach this year in October or November to submit this proposal to the council.
Construction of the rescue headquarters and a new square
One of the other intentions of the mayor of Prague 9 is to force the city to start working at the seat of the rescue service. The solution to this issue is moving forward. “We have been talking about the rescue for a long time, so we offered the capital city of Prague the land we have behind the Prosek Polyclinic. At the moment, the land is already entrusted, which means that at the moment the city is the owner, it is counting on the establishment of the seat of the rescue service and at the moment there will be an agreement on a memorandum between the city district of Prague 9 and the capital. the City of Prague on how the seat will be created and made. I think that we will sign the memorandum within a week, 14 days, that at that moment the city of Prague will announce a competition and that it will be. “
Another of his intentions is for Vysočany to have its own square. This should largely be created on the site of today’s factory next to the O2 arena. “We started negotiating with the owner to buy the land. The square would be connected to the Českomoravská metro station, with buses disappearing from there and the gas becoming a completely unique public space that connected and adapted the central square for Vysočany, but also Libeň, “says the mayor, adding that it would be clear things should be at least in half a year.
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