The Railway Administration (SŽ) will have two billion crowns less available from the state this year for repairs and maintenance than originally planned. This follows from the budget of the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure (SFDI) approved yesterday.

The daily Zdopravy.cz confirmed the approved version with a proposal submitted by the previous government. It shows that the start of some construction will be postponed until next year. At the same time, these are rather larger projects in the order of billions of crowns. Thanks to the large amount of money for projects already under construction, the only events on the railway with a budget of over a billion crowns will only be the beginning of the modernization of the Prague-Bubny – Prague-Exhibition Grounds section.

According to the approved proposal, the railway administration will have 53.4 billion crowns at its disposal. A total of 33.5 billion crowns is to come from national sources, almost 20 billion crowns from European funds. For the first time, the Railway Administration will also come from the European resources of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). In total, the SŽ has over 10 billion crowns in this budget.

The biggest cuts are in repairs and maintenance: in the autumn the state expected 16.6 billion crowns, in the end it will be 14.4 billion crowns. The budget in the area of ​​railway operation (3.1 billion crowns) and in the volume for construction preparation (1.67 billion crowns) is unchanged. The amount of more than half a billion crowns for the preparation of high-speed lines was not reduced either.

For investments, the launch of some events will be postponed until next year at the earliest. At the same time, it is planned to move a number of buildings in 2023, which were originally supposed to begin in 2024 or later. However, it is not clear how realistic these plans are, in total, these are constructions with a budget significantly exceeding the current level of expenditure of the Railway Administration in recent years.

Already at the beginning of the year, the Railway Administration announced that it had no action on all the money. One such example is the modernization of the Chomutov – Kyjice line, where construction companies have lost time by preparing bids. Already in the autumn, according to the draft budget of the SFDI, there will be money for the construction in 2023 at the earliest.

Events launched by the Railway Administration launched this year (name / total price)

GSM-R Uničov – Šumperk CZK 83.6 million.
Completion of I. railway. corridor in the track. Lanžhot (Czech Republic) –⁠ Kúty (Slovak Republic) CZK 786 million (to be built last year).
Karviná ON – reconstruction of a part of the station building CZK 4.9 million.
Kravaře ON – reconstruction of the dispatch building CZK 31.6 million.
Railway infrastructure operability management tool CZK 257 million.
Segmentation of traffic in the technological data network CZK 49.9 million.
Reconstruction and modification of the railway network’s transmission network CZK 573.6 million.
Implementation of the ŽDC Unified Recording Environment system CZK 151.9 million.
Network status event management CZK 199.3 million.
Reconstruction of the station building in Tábor railway station CZK 153 million.
Rehabilitation of the Březová nad Svitavou embankment body Svitavy 224,600 – 25225,000 CZK 247.2 million.
Cancellation of the P6801 crossing at km 179,826 of the Brno – Č. Třebová line and construction of an underpass in Blansko 132.2
Modernization of the Prague-Bubny (inclusive) – Prague-Výstaviště line (inclusive) CZK 3.37 billion.
Reconstruction of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm railway station CZK 157.5 million.
Reconstruction of bridges over Šámalova Street in Brno CZK 131.7 million.
Creation and development of digital technical maps (DTM) and mapping of technical infrastructure CZK 1.6 billion.
Reconstruction of Semily railway platforms CZK 223.5 million
Reconstruction of the Prague-Radotín railway station building CZK 51.5 million

Event originally planned for this year and moved to next year

Reconstruction of the Bystřice pod Hostýnem railway station CZK 539.9 million (originally supposed to start last year).
ETCS state border Germany –⁠ Dolní Žleb –⁠ Kralupy nl Vlt. CZK 13.2 billion.
Reconstruction of the Prague-Smíchov railway station CZK 3.9 billion.
Optimization of the Karlštejn (outside) – Beroun (outside) line CZK 1.6 billion.
Track electrification incl. PEÚ Brno –⁠ Zastávka u Brna, 2nd stage CZK 1.9 billion.
ETCS Brno Horní Heršpice – Stop at Brno CZK 481.9 million.
Extension of the underpass at the Hořovice railway station CZK 62.3 million.

Events for 2023 (start, including constructions that were planned to start later)

Polom – Suchdol n. O., BC CZK 1.79 billion.
Construction of a footbridge in ŽST Praha-Smíchov CZK 265 million.
“Relocation of the hall for OTV and establishment of an integrated workplace of OTV and ST within the Prague Regional Office” CZK 258.3 million.
“Ensuring barrier-free access to the platform at Kolín railway station” CZK 359.1 million.
Modernization of the Prague-Ruzyně line (outside) – Kladno (outside) CZK 5.2 billion.
Reconstruction of the line in the section Kyjice – Chomutov CZK 1.72 billion.
Revitalization of the Kostelec – Telč – Slavonice line CZK 2 billion.
Reconstruction of Nový Bor railway station CZK 250 million.
“Reconstruction of the line section Chomutov (outside) – Kadaň-Prunéřov (inclusive)” CZK 3.5 billion.
“Reconstruction of the bridge km 287,291 of the Retz (ÖBB) – Kutná Hora line” CZK 188.4 million.
Cyber ​​Security of the Railway Administration CZK 501 million.
ETCS Milovice – Prague n. (out) CZK 370.3 million.
Reconstruction of tracks in Vinohrady tunnels CZK 4.16 billion.
Double-tracking of the Branický most – Prague-Krč – ⁠ Spořilov line CZK 2.85 billion.
New construction of the Prague-Ruzyně (outside) – Prague-Václav Havel Airport (outside) line CZK 7.05 billion. Modernization and construction of the Prague Masaryk Railway Station station CZK 2.53 billion.
Track optimization Odb. Berounka (inclusive) – Karlštejn CZK 7.95 billion.
Modernization of Rakovník railway station CZK 1.05 billion.
Reconstruction of Pečky railway station CZK 2.42 billion.
Modernization of the Nymburk marshalling yard CZK 1.8 billion.
Reconstruction of the station building in the Benešov railway station near Prague CZK 112 million.
Reconstruction of Loukov u Mnichova Hradiště railway station CZK 350 million.
Reconstruction of the bridge at 1,279 km of the Tábor – Bechyně line CZK 207.3 million.
ETCS České Velenice – České Budějovice – Horní Dvořiště CZK 450 million.
Modernization of the Pilsen – Domažlice line – st. German border, 1st construction, new line Pilsen (outside) – Stod (inclusive) CZK 8.31 billion.
Modernization of the Pilsen – Domažlice line – st. German border, 2nd construction, section Pilsen (outside) –⁠ Nýřany –⁠ Chotěšov (outside) 2.5 billion.
Modernization of the Pilsen – Domažlice line – st. German border, 4th construction, Domažlice section (outside) – German state border CZK 967.6 million.
Modernization of the Horažďovice line předm. (outside) – Plzeň Koterov (outside) CZK 10,031 billion. Reconstruction of the dispatch building in the Klatovy railway station CZK 458.4 million.
Replacement of the P284 crossing at km 71,756 of the Prague Smíchov line CZK 200 million.
Reconstruction of Hrádek nad Nisou railway station CZK 422.3 million.
Reconstruction of Chrastava railway station CZK 633.5 million.
Increasing the capacity of the Týniště n. O. – Častolovice – Solnice line, part 4 CZK 3.59 billion.
Modernization of the Česká Třebová railway junction CZK 10.4 billion.
Reconstruction of Přerov railway station, 3rd construction CZK 1.041 billion
Replacement of the P6532 crossing at km 204,392 of the Přerov – Olomouc line CZK 236 million.
Optimization of the Havířov line section (inclusive) –⁠ Havířov střed stop (outside) CZK 2.93 billion.
Lipník n. B. – Drahotuše, BC 2.2 billion CZK.
Modernization of the Brno-Přerov line, 5th construction of Kojetín – Přerov CZK 9.62 billion.
Modernization of the Brno-Přerov line, 4th construction of Nezamyslice – Kojetín CZK 6.7 billion.
Reconstruction of the Prague hl. n. (outside) –⁠ Vyšehrad (incl.) CZK 1.61 billion.
Reconstruction of railway bridges under Vyšehrad CZK 1.088 billion.
Modernization of the Pilsen – Domažlice line – st. German border, 3rd construction, Stod section (outside) – Domažlice (inclusive) CZK 1.41 billion.
RS 4 Joint cross-border section CZK 185 million.
RS 4 section Ústí nad Labem –⁠ state border CZ / Germany CZK 70 million.
Choceň – Hungary, BC CZK 2.77 billion.
Reconstruction of the line section Chomutov (outside) – Kadaň-Prunéřov (inclusive) CZK 3.5 billion.

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