Prague has documents for a tender for the study of the fifth subway line
The new city management plans to build a new line in connection with the future development of brownfields in particular.
According to Deputy Mayor Adam Scheinherr (Praha Sobě), the feasibility study should include the transport and technical side of the project as well as an evaluation of the economic efficiency and financing of the circular line. “We expect that the study will take 32 months to complete, and the result should be the basis for the fifth subway line to be launched after the D subway is completed,” said Scheinherr.
The materials for the competition are based on the meetings of the working group, whose members are politicians, transport experts, urban planners, sociologists, economists or representatives of municipal and state companies. According to the city management, the circular line marked with the letter O will be necessary due to construction on land in former industrial areas, which will need to be connected to public transport so that people do not have to travel through the busy center.
The line is to connect the already built-up locations in Smíchov, Pankrác and Karlín with similar centers that will be established in the future, for example, in Bubne-Zátory in Prague 7, the former freight station Žižkov, Vysočany or in the north-east of the city, i.e. in Letňany, Kbely or Čakovice.
According to earlier statements, the new line O should lead from Nádraží Podbaba through Dejvice, Smíchov, Dvorce, Budějovická, Vršovice, Žižkov, Vysočany, Čakovice and then in the second phase north back to Podbaba. According to the initial proposal, it would measure about 36 kilometers and there would be 23 stations on it. The circular line appeared in the subway construction plans as early as the 1980s.
The transport company (DPP) and the city management started the construction of the first part of the new line D from Pankrác to Písnice in April. The cost of this part of the line is approximately 14.5 billion crowns and the work will last 90 months, i.e. about seven and a half years. It will then be followed by a section to Nové Dvory, and the last section to Písnice will be created. The costs should total 52.09 billion crowns when inflation is taken into account.