Are Central Bohemian cars a problem in Prague? Representative Prokop started the debate
A car with the letter S on its license plate is not much to look at in Prague; not at all parking in housing estates. That’s what the posts posted last week on the social network of Prague representative Ondřej Prokop (ANO) sounded like. It defends itself against Central Bohemia, who commute to the capital for work by car – and thus take up parking spaces for the people of Prague. He is calling for the creation of a system that would introduce Central Bohemian drivers to P+R parking lots, from where they will continue by public transport.
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The streets of Prague must belong to the people of Prague, not to Central Bohemia, wrote Prokop on Twitter. Petra Pecková (STAN), the Governor of the Central Bohemian Region, responded to the Central Bohemian riots via social networks. Jokingly, she drew attention to the number of Praguers who come to Munich on weekends, where she lives, and “buy burritos” in the two butchers there, which she says will not be left over for the locals.
A letter that evokes emotions
Although Prokop and Pecková also met in a debate in front of television cameras, the issue of parking of Central Bohemians in Prague continues to feed the attention of social networks. On Monday, Prokop published a handwritten list of four dozen license plates, the creation of which was said to have inspired one of the neighbors in the housing estate, who wrote down the cars parked around the house. Six Central Bohemian brands can be counted – but there are also those from other regions; the rest is certainly not represented only by “A” in Prague. “He made a walk around the block of flats and copied down the number plate. In the evening, when he walks with the dog, he will compare how many license plates are still on the housing estate (he actually lives here) and how many left “after work,” explained Prokop on Twitter.
The remarkable debate surrounding the Central Bohemian license plates in Prague was “split” by a Monday tweet on the official profile of the Prague Integrated Transport, accompanied by an image from the monitoring of vehicle movements: “We have an overview of all aspects of traffic 24/7. For example, tonight there were five buses with “S” and two from Prague in Hájy – if anyone wants to record it.”
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