News site: parking will be a problem when new metro stations open

The Czech news website idnes has reported a planned parking complex which was to have gone hand-in-hand with the extension of Prague’s “A” (or Green) metro line will not be built. The planned multi-level parking site would have cost the city roughly 1.3 billion crowns, funds Prague lacks, the Deputy Mayor for Transport Josef Nosek confirmed. The planned site was to have accommodated 600 cars – mostly for motorists from Kladno and surrounding areas just outside of the capital. Instead, existing parking space will have to suffice.

The news site reports that that could lead to difficulties, with motorists being left little choice but to “flood” local residential areas; to complicate matters, the site notes, the district of Prague 6 is currently planning on introducing so-called blue zones, requiring annual parking permits, in Dejvice and Bubeneč. Four new metro stations are being added to the “A” line: Červený Vrch, Veleslavín, Petřiny and Motol. The new stations are to open in 2014.

Author: Jan Velinger