📋 Tender Overview
Nearly 92 km of modernized lines put into operation commencement and continuation of modernization and reconstruction further steps in the preparation of the construction of pilot sections of the VRT or a record amount spent on reconstruction and repair of railway station buildings with an emphasis on accessibility. This is just a short account of the achievements of the Railway Administration in the past year. During this period the organization invested CZK 600 million more than in the previous year. Almost CZK 20 billion was invested in the modernization of the railway infrastructure alone.The most important sources of coverage were national over CZK 11.5 billion followed by European funds from the OPD2 programs over CZK 5.2 billion and CEF over CZK 2.7 billion. In several cases the organization also made small contributions from regions cities and municipalities. At the same time the trend of growth of funds spent on the preparation of other constructions continued last year. In terms of all subsidies we were able to use almost 99.8 of the maximum limit of all available financial resources says Ji Svoboda Director General of the Railway Administration.The key projects launched by the Railway Administration last year include the electrification of the Uniov - Olomouc CZK 4.8 billion and akvice - Hustopee u Brna CZK 1.7 billion lines and the fourth corridor of the Sobslav - Doub u Tbor CZK 4.9 billion optimization of the line Praha-Smchov - ernoice CZK 3.7 billion or Lys nad Labem - elkovice CZK 1.8 billion. 91.2 km of modernized track sections were put into operation. These include Optimization of the esk Tn - Dtmarovice line 21.0 km Modernization of the Rokycany - Plze line 14.1 km Plze Node 2nd construction - reconstruction of the passenger station including the Mikulsk bridges 5.6 km or Increase of line speed in the section ikonn - Vlkov u Tinova 9.9 km. Last year the railway administration also successfully completed the year-long lockout at Brno main station. There was an extensive reconstruction of the signaling equipment reconstruction of two historical bridges and part of the station yard including the replacement of twenty-two switches. The price of the entire reconstruction exceeded CZK 2 billion.An important result of the end of 2019 is the obtaining of the first two final decisions on the location of the construction in the project of the railway connection Prague - Vclav Havel Airport - Kladno and approval of three feasibility studies SP. This is specifically the SP of the new Prague - Beroun Hoovice route in CI variant corresponding to the project scope of a new mostly tunnel line with a maximum line speed of 200 km h. In addition the SP of the modernization of the line Plze - Domalice - state border in variant 3b was approved and the last one was approved of the SP of Prague - Mlad Boleslav - Liberec in the Deko variant.
