The capital, together with the transport company (DPP), want to obtain a building permit for the construction of metro D from Pankrác to Písnice this year. The geological survey will be completed in the summer and further test wells will be completed this year. Deputy Mayor Adam Scheinherr (Prague Sobě) told ČTK today. It is not clear exactly when construction will begin, but according to the DPP last September, it could be this spring and the first section could be put into operation in the second half of 2028. Metro D will connect Pankrác and Písnice in the first phase.
“The construction proceedings are continuing, in which objections and biases are being settled. We hope to obtain a building permit this year. The geological survey will also be completed and the contractor will be selected,” said Scheinherr.
DPP completed a geological survey at two of the four sites last summer. Other exploratory geological wells are being drilled at the sites of the completed survey, which will be part of the future metro area. The survey will last for the remaining two until the summer of this year. Most of the tunnels from the geological survey will be part of the future D metro.
In the budget, construction of metro D is planned for about 1.7 billion CZK. Most of it will come from the transport company’s budget.
The excavation was originally supposed to start last September. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, construction tenders or deadlines for tenders have been extended. The construction procedure also dragged on a number of comments.
In the first phase, a metro will be built between Pankrác and Nový Dvůr and should then continue to the Písnice Depot. In the future, a section from Pankrác to náměstí Míru is to be built. It has not yet been decided where the metro from náměstí Míru will lead. One of the variants was Republic Square, according to the other, the route should go to Žižkov and further to Vysočany. The total estimated price tag is 72.6 billion crowns and the investor is DPP.
