The end of the long wait for the final exams at the driving school. Prague increased the number of examiners and free dates
Author: Anina Russová – Source: City Hall m of Prague – Illustration photo: Kia – 8 September 2022
In recent years, there has been a problem in Prague with very long waiting times for final exams in driving schools. There were a lot of applicants and few deadlines or commissioners. And the restrictions of the corona pandemic did not help much either, which added viruses to the whole situation. However, according to the Prague municipality, it should gradually improve.
During this year, according to the municipality, a number of small measures were taken, as a result of which a turning point occurred and the situation returned to the acceptable state that prevailed even before the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. Currently, it happens that not all the dates listed for taking the tests of applicants for a driving license by driving schools have been used up. However, this does not mean that even now it always reaches all applicants. In such cases, however, the cause is the time inflexibility of driving schools or the applicants themselves.
In the first 8 months of this year, 8,168 were confirmed for the licensing exams alone. But that is just the beginning. The municipality does not want to stay with the current relatively positive situation. A number of other measures are planned, which should further shorten waiting periods. “In addition to the changes in the organization and management of work, for example, this is the planned application of an automated system for listing and allocating test dates for drivers’ license applicants, or newly established cooperation with the processes of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic in matters of the possibility of simplifying the prescribed preparations and performance of tests, including reducing the administrative burden of test commissioners,” described Vít Hofman, press spokesman of the Prague municipality.
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