DPP has started preparatory work on the construction of a trolleybus line at Václav Havel Airport Prague
30/11/2022
Prague, November 30, 2022 – In the garage of Řepy Transport Company hl. m of Prague (DPP) has started these days preparatory work for the start of the construction of the trolleybus line at Václav Havel Airport Prague. The actual construction at Evropeska and K Letišti streets should begin, depending on the climatic conditions, during January 2023. The construction will last a maximum of 15 months. It will be completed by Elektrizace železnik Praha, which won the DPP public contract. Estimated construction costs amount to 354.5 million crowns. DPP anticipates the start of trial operation on the second trolleybus line in the modern history of Prague during the first quarter of 2024.
The construction of a trolleybus track at Václav Havel Prague Airport is part of the bus route electrification project No. 119, which was approved by the City Council. m of Prague in September 2019. In the area of the Řepy garage, DPP will build a new brick transformer station and charging points for up to 21 three-cell battery trolleybuses that will run on the future trolleybus lines at the airport as part of this project. In the Řepy garage, however, DPP is now preparing up to 50 additional charging points for battery trolleybuses of the Standard category, which it will build here as part of the construction of other bus line electrification projects being prepared in the left-bank part of Prague, e.g. C. 131, 137, 176 or 191. The Řepy garage will home to the trolleybuses that DPP will run on these lines and which will replace the existing diesel buses.
In addition to the Řepy garage, as part of the electrification of bus line No. 119, charging points were also created at the terminal, at the interchange at Václav Havel Airport Prague, where DPP will also build a container exchange station. The catenary line of the track will be powered from a total of four substations. In addition to the mentioned two DPP, install another container transformer station in the bus terminal of Nádraží Veleslavín, and part of the trolley line will also be powered from the new Dědiny transformer station, which DPP is now building in Drnovská Street at the location of the future tram loop together with the new tram line Divoká Šárka – Dědinská.
The traction trolley line will cover roughly 50% of the existing route of bus line No. 119 Nádraží Veleslavín – Prague Airport, the trolleybuses will run on battery power on the remaining section. The trolley line will start at the existing Nádraží Veleslavín bus terminal, Povedena Street, then K Letišti Street, where it will end before the roundabout at Terminal 3. In the opposite direction to the center, the trolleybuses will connect to the traction line at the Terminal 3 stop. The traction line will continue uninterrupted continue to the final stop at the bus terminal Nádraží Veleslavín. DPP will build a total of 11.6 kilometers of trolley lines for the future trolleybus line at Václav Havel Airport Prague.
On the future trolleybus line between Nádraží Veleslavín and Václav Havel Airport Prague, DPP will deploy new high-capacity three-cell battery trolleybuses with the working trade name Škoda-Solaris 24m. Their supplier DPP launched a competition in February this year, DPP will buy 20 of them in total. The first should appear in Prague at the end of next year.
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