Chabr: By 2025, we will build 100 fast car charging stations in Prague
The councilor of Prague approved real estate exchanges worth 2.2 billion crowns. What will the land you get the city for?
It primarily concerns the Veleslavín Castle, where there is a long-term interest of the city district of Prague 6 and the capital city of Prague in creating a background for education. It is also a piece of gardening colony in the Balkans. There, gardeners are afraid that if the state sells it at auction, it will lead to a gardening colony.
We should also get the Karlín Barracks, where it is possible to build affordable housing. The work is, for example, a building in Hybernská Street 2, where the intention is to create a service point for citizens or another school, such as a high school.
Are you also exchanging land for subway D?
We approved that on Monday. It is an exchange of land in Libuš between restituents and the Capital City of Prague. We have thus solved a long-term problem where Prague has a subsidy for the construction of tram tracks in place. But we lacked the land just needed. Thanks to them, however, the D Libuš metro station can also be created, which would not otherwise be there.
What will the city exchange for these plots?
We give them other lands in Libuše that are in the neighborhood and will be buildable in the future.
What is their value?
Land for 60 million crowns is given by the city. For about 60 million, they are given by restituents.
You should also have agreed with Škoda in cooperation regarding electromobility.
It is a memorandum between Škoda, Prague Energy (PRE) and the city. We will select places on the map and maintain a network of fast charging stations, which should be at the main transit stations, such as the Southern Link or the main road.
Cars should be charged in five minutes, up to a hundred kilometers. One hundred of them should be established by 2025.
Who will finance the charging station?
It will be a Skoda with PRE. We want to have control over where they arise so that it makes sense from a transport perspective. At the same time, we want to help reduce our dependence on Russian oil.
Speaking of Ukraine, are you planning further assistance for refugees? For example, new accommodation capacities?
We have selected almost everything within the city buildings. The private and public sectors also helped us. For example, in cooperation with Charles University, we acquired two dormitories, where we put into operation 497 beds.
We also negotiated with the state to give us the Veleslavín Chateau for a free loan. There, the need for education would be realized, teaching classes could be created in it. At the same time, we also took properties that are intended for reconstruction, and we want to create basic infrastructure in them for a long time, such as hot water or heating.
And Karlín Barracks?
These are more complicated. If the weather was warmer, they could be used. But the problem is water distribution and heating. We now have a team of designers who are finding out what could be put into operation there.
At the beginning, about a quarter of Ukrainians went to Prague. Is that still the case?
Maybe more. The onslaught on Prague is enormous in comparison with other cities.