After 11 months, the exit from the Na Knížecí metro station will remain closed

Prague - For passengers in Prague, the exit from the B line metro station Anděl towards Na Knížecí will remain closed from today. The reason is the repair of the escalators and the vestibule. The closure is expected to last about 11 months. People will be able to exit and enter only towards the intersection at Anděl. The costs are estimated at about 250 million crowns. The company has previously repaired the vestibule and replaced the escalators towards the intersection at Anděl, and is preparing repairs at other stations.

At the station, old Soviet three-arm escalators will be replaced with new stairs. The original load-bearing structures and internal staircase will be removed from the escalator tunnel by DPP, and new ones will be concreted. Workers will remove leaks. Enamel-coated cladding plates will be refurbished, and those that are damaged will be replaced.

The repair will also include technical and cable spaces, the machine room, street exits, and the freight elevator. New rooms will also be created, such as a lighting distribution room or a spare parts storage room for the escalators. In the vestibule, the company will replace the ceilings with new ones, repair the damaged load-bearing structure, and fix the lighting. Stone cladding and flooring will be repaired and cleaned, as well as some canopies at the exits.

DPP has been planning the closure and reconstruction of the vestibule at Na Knížecí for several years. The original closure date set for the second or third quarter of 2019 was eventually postponed by the leadership of Prague in January of the same year. The company wanted an analysis to determine whether the stairs needed to be repaired.