Scheinherr (Prague itself): The Prague Council will decide on the establishment of a working group for the O
24.02.2022 8:36 | Press Release
At the conceptual meeting of the City Council The Deputy Mayor for Transport, Adam Scheinherr, presented a plan to continue the preparation of the 5th metro line of the Prague metro. Councilors should decide on setting up a working group within the next two weeks. If this happens, we will prepare an assignment for the feasibility study.
As a result of the regular weekly conceptual meeting of the City Council. m of Prague and there is a consensus in the subsequent negotiations on the further preparation of the O metro. The Council of the Capital City will thus decide on the establishment of a new working group within two weeks. In case of approval, its assignment will be the assignment for the feasibility study.
“At the conceptual coalition meeting, we agreed that evaluating the contribution of metro O to the future development of Prague makes sense – however some coalition partners may have different views on the matter. But until we put a comprehensive study on the table, we can’t finally decide. Therefore, within two weeks at the meeting of the Prague City Council, we will present a joint press with Deputy Petr Hlaváček, which will set up a working group. The task will be to prepare the assignment for the selection of the contractor of the feasibility study for metro O, “said Adam Scheinherr, Deputy Mayor for Transport.
“First of all, it is important to do a study of traffic flows in Prague, taking into account and processing the long-term planned development of the city and the subsequent development of an optimal transport solution. This study should not only focus on the territory of the capital city of Prague, but also take into account the entire metropolitan region and their interconnectedness, “said the chairman of the Transport Committee of the City Council. m Prague Pavel Richter.
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The working group itself should be composed of experts in transport, territorial development, sociologists, social geographers, architects, economists and representatives of municipal companies such as ROPID, Dopravní podnik hl. m of Prague or the Institute of Planning and Development of Prague. The capital will also address the Railway Report for coordination and interconnection with well-known high-speed lines and the city railway tunnel, which is currently being examined as part of a feasibility study at the Prague Railway Junction.
It will be important to reflect various perspectives in the terms of reference for the feasibility study, such as the quality of life in the city, transport services in the development area, housing affordability, further development of the city, urban planning or the environment.
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