Today the Czech Republic won the vote of the PIARC Council in Japan on which country shall organise the World Road Congress. This means that in 2023 Prague will see the arrival of traffic experts from all the world. Our capital will follow up the 14th World Road Congress which took place in Prague in 1971.
The Ministry of Transport accommodated some remarks and proposes the free-of-charge use of three motorway sections in a total length of 13 km in its new regulation. Starting from next year, drivers could be using the sections D11 Sedlice – Kukleny (exits 84 – 90), D35 Sedlice – Opatovice nad Labem (exits 126 – 129) and D48 Frýdek-Místek – Dobrá (km 50 – exit 54) without the motorway sticker. A total of 199 km of motorways are already free of charge – mostly city bypasses or those crossed by category I roads. The exemption of these motorways sections did not have any impact on the sales of motorway stickers.
The water corridor project connecting the Danube, Odra and Elbe rivers is economically efficient in terms of transportation, water management, energy and recreational use. A connection between Danube and Odra received a better assessment, the Elbe branch of the corridor lowers the effectiveness of the entire project. Evaluating the benefits of an investment amounting up to CZK 582 billion, the feasibility study has confirmed this after two years of work.
Next year CZK 86.3 billion shall be invested in the construction of new sections but also repairs of motorways, category I roads and railways. The government approved the budget of the State Fund for Transport Infrastructure. It also ruled that the finance and transportation minister shall invest four billion in repairs of municipal roads during the first quarter of next year.
The motorways where work has most progressed are the South-Bohemian D3, the D6 to Karlsbad, continuation of the D11 to Hradec Králové and construction of the Frýdek-Místek bypass on the D48. An extension to the D35 in section Časy – Ostrov and the Budweis bypass are also soon starting. Of the 177 km, 100 km are motorways and 67 are category I roads. The government today received information on these construction projects.
The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, represented by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and the Czech Republic, represented by the Minister of Transport, Dan Ťok, signed a memorandum of understanding on a cooperation in the frame of space resources exploration and utilization.