Will it be good to live around metro D? Experts draw attention to the problems that construction can bring | iRADIO
Plans for the construction of Metro D have existed since the 1980s, the first part began to be built this year and should be completed in seven years. The line should end at the Písnice housing estate. To the concerns and expectations of local collaborators, the Waiting for Change festival. The metro can improve the quality of life for local residents of Prague, but if the construction raises real estate prices and the metro station looks like Budějovická, it will bring them more negative, sociologist Barbora Matysová assures.
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It should take seven years to build metro station D from Pankrác to Olbrachtova, later the line should lead to Nové Dvory and, as the last section, to Písnice.
“We don’t know what the context will be when the final stop comes. For example, the metro brought a better quality of life to people from Černý most at that time because they did not have to commute by bus and could stay longer in the center of Prague and still get home later,” says sociologist Matysová.
“If the metro is to be built, it must go all the way to Písnica, because otherwise it makes no sense as a whole. Even people in the most remote regions should benefit from it,” appeals the sociologist.
But even then it doesn’t have to be won. “If the metro stop looks similar to Budějovická, it will ultimately serve someone other than the residents of Písnice. There is insufficient public space on Budějovická, although there are shops there, but it contrasts with how it looks a little further on on Pankrác. No money was spared there, it’s glaring, it’s spitting in the face of the residents,” says Matysová.
What life will be like
It also depends on how the completion of the subway will affect property prices in the area. “That the municipality of the provider, that even after the transformation there will be services and that people’s access to affordable housing will be maintained. For example, it didn’t happen in Karlín,” the sociologist compares.
“New neighborhoods are to be created there. But there is a question as to whether it will really be a district, or rather a satellite town.”
The construction of metro line D has begun in Prague. The first part is expected to cost 14.5 billion and will be completed in 90 months
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In the Libuš housing estate, where the metro is also supposed to lead, people are already active and are negotiating with the town hall about how the area should look in the future. But it is more complicated in Písnice: the apartments there belong to the developer, not to the locals.
However, much has changed in 40 years of subway planning, the sociologist reminds. “We have a climate crisis, a housing crisis, inflation, we are building unaffordable housing. And all of this will also affect the construction of the subway,” he adds.
In the meantime, the well-known SAPA market was also created, adds Eliška Málková, curator of the Waiting for Change festival: “The market is not included in the metro plans, but its liquidation is also not proposed. It’s a blind spot. At the same time, it is a rather unique local center.”
The moment shortly before the change is the theme of the Waiting for Change festival, which will last until mid-October.
Listen to the entire debate in the audio recording.
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