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29.08.2017 10:50
Czech Republic

Prague

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Prague - The Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC) today presented pilot projects for revitalizing railway station buildings and spaces that will not be used for railway operations in the future. The police will be based in the Prostějov station, while in Teplice, railway workers plan to move the headquarters of the tax office to the station. This was stated by Tomáš Drmola, the Deputy Director General of SŽDC, at today's press conference. The railway administration purchased the stations from Czech Railways last year. This year, it plans to invest 600 million crowns in repairs and a total of 8.4 billion crowns by 2022.


Finding uses for the stations is a significant task for the railway administration, said Transport Minister Dan Ťok (for ANO). Railway operations are being centralized and controlled remotely, but at the same time, dispatchers are disappearing from stations. Therefore, it is not possible to simply renovate the stations and leave them unused, the minister added.

SŽDC will hand over the spaces in the Prostějov station to the police on September 27, where 45 officers will be based, said Drmola. The project to relocate the tax office in Teplice is not yet that far along. However, discussions are ongoing. For now, these are just isolated projects; broader use of the stations for housing offices or even commercial tenants is being hindered by the fact that they have not been renovated.

Out of roughly a thousand stations, 70 station buildings currently do not need repairs, while the rest require reconstruction to varying degrees. The most money will go towards completing the repairs of the Prague Main Station building, which is expected to begin renovations in 2019, with SŽDC estimating the costs at 945 million crowns.

Another 325 million crowns will be needed for repairs of the main station in Plzeň, while the costs for reconstruction of the stations in Cheb and Most will climb to about 150 million crowns, with the repairs of the stations in České Budějovice and Prague's Smíchov being roughly ten million crowns more expensive.
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