The Slovaks caught up with the Czechs with high inflation. The Prague metro is awaiting repair and modernization. Prague 6 is asking for low-floor trams for pensioners and mothers with prams
Repairs and modernization in the subway
The Prague metro is awaiting the replacement of sleepers on route C, the modernization of the train security system. In the Prague Uprising – Florence section (route C), a substitute XC bus service is introduced. Considering that demonstrations are announced in the center of Prague on Thursday, November 17, 2022, while it should also be partially routed along the main road, and the replacement XC bus service will run mainly along 5. května, Legerova, Sokolská and Wilsonova streets during the lockout, it can demonstratively disrupting the regular operation of not only replacement XC transport, but also surface public transport in general in the given area.
In addition, the DPP will implement the next stage of modernization of the security equipment on route A, which is why metro service was suspended in both directions on line A in the Skalka – Depo Hostivař section from Wednesday, November 16, and in the Strašnická section from Thursday, November 17 to Sunday, November 20, 2022 – Depot Hostivař
60th birthday of tram T3
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the start of regular operation of the iconic Tatra T3 trams with passengers, Dopravní podnik Praha invites you to a ceremonial parade of these vehicles. And that on Sunday, November 20, 2022 from 2:00 p.m., Za Ženskými domovy street, Prague 5. The trams will be on display from 13:00 onwards. The parade route will lead from the stops Na Knížecí direction Anděl – Újezd - Malostranské náměstí – Mánesův most – National Theater – Lazarská – Wenceslas Square – Náměstí Republiky – Strossmayerovo náměstí – Letenské náměstí – Špejchar.
The Councilor of Prague 6 is asking Dopravní podnik for low-floor trams
Prague 6 requests the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague to include new low-floor and streetcar trams in the depot in Vokovice. The letter form, which is addressed to the management of the Prague transport company, requested this step from Ondřej Matěj Hrubeš – Prague 6 councilor for transport.
According to data from the Czech Statistical Office, Prague 6 has the second highest proportion of residents over 65 years of age among all city districts in Prague. “Seniors and people who have difficulty moving due to health reasons would be greatly helped by the extension of low-floor tram lines. Whether traveling to see a doctor or to go shopping, which is a routine matter for many of us, but not for our elderly fellow citizens,” says Ondřej Matěj and adds: “Sestka is also a place to live for many young families. Mothers with strollers or small children certainly deserve comfort when carrying large loads, which modern low-floor tram can provide.”
Inflation in Slovakia showed a level of 14.9 percent in October
“For the first time since last summer, the pace of price increases in our eastern neighbors is practically the same as in the Czech Republic. The year-on-year inflation rate in the Czech Republic was 15.1 percent in October, which was only 0.2 percentage points higher. in addition, in the Czech Republic, year-on-year inflation is already in a downward phase, while it continues to rise in Slovakia. The equalization of inflation rates in the Czech Republic and Slovakia is a manifestation of a wider process, in the framework of which the difference in the rate of inflation in the Czech Republic and in the countries of the eurozone has been decreasing recently – specifically since this July. This tightening of the scissors between the rate of inflation in the Czech Republic and the rates of inflation in Slovakia , or in the entire eurozone, it is all the more remarkable that in the Czech Republic there has been no further increase in interest rates by the central bank since June of this year, while currently there is,” economist Lukáš Kovanda assesses the situation.
According to Kovanda, the tightening of the scissors to a large extent calls into question the explanation, often given in the second half of last year and in the first half of this year, that the Czechia mostly “made itself” the rapid inflation. First, by the fact that it still uses the koruna instead of the euro, and secondly, by the fact that it spent more than other countries during the pandemic. Not that the given explanations did not play any role at all, it just now becomes clear that its importance was inappropriately overestimated. The current wave of inflation is much more of an international phenomenon, to such an extent that even a world reserve currency such as the euro does not necessarily protect against it. The importance of a relaxed fiscal policy in the Czech Republic during the pandemic seems to have been similarly inappropriately overestimated, otherwise there would no longer be a tightening of inflation in the Czech Republic and in the eurozone.
Source: Author’s text, Dopravní podnik hl. m of Prague, Lukáš Kovanda, ÚMČ Prague 6