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Today the Directorate of Roads and Highways (RSD) put into operation a 1.5 kilometer long section of the I/9 road which is part of the Ceska Lipa bypass in the Liberec Region. It is the section between Litomericka street and road II/262. It will divert part of the transit traffic from the city. The price of the building after valuation is approximately CZK 625 million without VAT the greater part of the costs will be covered by the EU.
View gallery (4) The new section of the Ceska Lipa bypass with a length of almost 1.5 kilometers will divert thousands of cars a day from the city center including truck traffic bound for Germany. It will bring safer and quieter traffic to residents and significantly less noise and emissions says Transport Minister Ivan Bednarik.
Part of the I/9 Dubice - Dolni Libchava construction are two roundabouts six bridges and also a 329-meter-long flyover over the Ploucnica river. The entire 1.5-kilometer section of the I/9 road alignment is designed on embankments that are up to 11 meters high using 125000 cubic meters of soil. The contractor had to deal with the way the foundation of the embankments settled and the groundwater level was higher than the surveys predicted.
The existing road I/9 runs through Ceska Lipa near the center which is why there is a strong share of transit traffic in the middle of the city. The interchange will carry over part of the traffic load from the original road which is congested. It will thus allow partial passage of trucks outside the built-up area of the city directly into the industrial zone. It will be used as a whole after the completion of the last section of the bypass Novy Bor - Dolni Libchava which will be more than ten kilometers long and is currently in the project development phase documentation for the construction permit said the general director of RSD Radek Matl.
Road I/9 is one of the important roads in the northern part of the Czech Republic and carries transit traffic from Central Bohemia to the Liberec and Usti regions. The Ceska Lipa bypass was planned as early as the 1980s when a stretch of the city was being built which today is used by up to 15000 cars a day. In addition to the section open today part of the first stage of the bypass which ends in Dubica at the beginning of Ceska Lipa is also finished.
The construction was co-financed from the European Fund for Regional Development within the Transport Program 2021-2027 (OPD3).
I/9 Dubice - Dolni Libchava - (Sosnova - II/262)
Main route:
length: 1451 m
number of all buildings: 65
anti-noise walls: 2 total length 560 m
contractor: association SWIETELSKY stavebni s.r.o. and HERKUL a.s.
construction price according to the contract: 543720085 CZK without VAT
price after valuation: approx. 625 million CZK without VAT *
start of implementation: 4/2024
commissioning: 6/2026
length of construction until commissioning: 26 months
* including changes during construction status as of the end of May 2026
The Directorate of Roads and Motorways is currently implementing a total of 249.7 kilometers of new construction. These are 173.7 km of highways and 76 km of Class I roads.
Another 116.3 km of highways and first-class roads are in the tender process.
You can find a complete overview of all planned and completed buildings in the interactive map on the website www.rsd.cz.
