A new poll of 1,000 Prague residents by IPSOS asking what their priorities are for Prague put major infrastructure projects at the top of the list. Among the most important of them was the completion of the outer and inner loops, with 56 percent of respondents saying it should dealt with by the city. Another 22 percent named completion of the metro line D, whose construction only started earlier this month. There’s even public concern (10 percent) over the need to complete new bridges and fix the ones that are crumbling. Only half as many named expanding Prague’s network of trams, while 2 percent were for the construction of new bike paths. But prime minister Andrej Babiš’s plan to build a new government quarter in the wilderness of Letňany was considered important by exactly a single percent of those polled. When asked what Prague’s biggest problems are, it’s unsurprising that the residential crisis was named by more than half the people and over one-third are irked by the city’s collapsing traffic system. Just 3 percent listed security as a major concern.
