There will be a thousand parking spaces in Prague, and drivers will not have to pay in Hostivař
“This year, at the end of the year or at the turn of the year, two new P + R car parks with a capacity of almost a thousand parking spaces will be launched,” said Adam Scheinherr, Prague’s deputy for transport. Prague councilors have agreed that Hostivař will be included in tariff zones 0, which means that no fee will be paid here. The Černý most car park will be in tariff zone 1, ie with a payment of CZK 50 for the whole day, but originally a payment of CZK 20 per day was planned.
It will relieve people in the housing estate
The two-storey car park in Černý Most will have two entrances and two exits. Part of the floor at ground level is reserved for cars with alternative propulsion and on each floor also for holders of a ZTP card. There is also a parking lot for cyclists.
The parking house for more than half a billion crowns is intended primarily for drivers outside Prague, so they should no longer park in the crowded streets of the housing estate, which are mainly for residents.
The car park at Hostivař by the Dolnoměcholupská road for 20 million crowns will primarily serve passengers who will continue to the city by train. There will be parking in the length of 300 meters along the noise walls, where there is also a pedestrian area. It will be possible to lock 10 bicycles here. Security and occupancy monitoring are provided by sensors and security cameras.
It is expensive in the center
From August, new tariffs apply on 20 P + R parking spaces in the capital. In seven of them, the first 12 hours of parking are free. Nine others, including the large-capacity parking space in Letňany, Chodov, Černý Most and Zličín with seats for more than 600 cars, have a daily tax of 50 crowns. For the other four, the drivers pay a hundred crowns a day. The most expensive are the locations with the best accessibility to travel to the city center, such as parking at the Congress Center, Holešovice, Ládví and one of the parking lots in Skalka (number 1).
In addition, the current municipal coalition is preparing two dozen other car parks. “It is from the small car parks that we are preparing at the railway stations to the large car park, the most important ones are in Nové Butovice in Petržílkova Street, where we have selected a contractor and we will start construction soon,” said Scheinherr.
Another large, but temporary P + R stand will also be built in Nové Butovice on the land of the future Radlické radiály. There are also new car parks in Zličín, Opatov or Dědina near the new tram line, but they will only serve local residents.
Projects are also being prepared in Čakovice, Satalice, Lipence, Horní Měcholupy and Uhříněves, among others. DEPO Zličín and DEPO Hostivař will also be designed for about 1,100 cars.
On Monday, the Prague Council also approved the extension of parking zones at the request of city districts. Most of them will be in Prague 5 and Prague 6, specifically in the area of the Baba housing estate and in the Libocký pond. Parking lanes will also be drawn in Prague 5 – in Barrandov and in the vicinity of Zlíchov and Staré Hlubočep.
The purpose of the P + R car parks is to facilitate traffic in the city center by commuters not driving on the outskirts and continuing by public transport. There are now about twenty of them in the metropolis. The lack of these car parks is often a recalled problem of Prague transport.