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One of the main priorities of Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) in the field of railway infrastructure construction is ensuring the implementation of the governmental Programme of Rapid Service connections development in the Czech Republic. To ensure its successful preparation and implementation, intense cooperation of SŽDC with state administration represented especially by the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Regional Development and bodies of regional and local authorities is necessary. That is why the infrastructure manager prepared for this year a project of presentation meetings named Current state of preparation of high-speed lines (HSL) in the Czech Republic which continued today in Brno.

At the end of September, the contract on geodetic bearing of the high-speed line Praha-Běchovice – Poříčany (HSL Polabí) was published in the Register of Contracts. The supplier of works for a price of almost CZK 10 million will be the company GEFOS. Geodesists will be working in the field up to the end of the year; they will hand in results of their work next March. Geodetic documents will speed up considerably the elaboration of documentation for a territorial decision.

As of this day, Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) has a new interactive map of constructions on the Czech railway network. It is available on the SŽDC website homepage and offers an overview of unfinished or prepared constructions embedded. It will be gradually extended with the growing number of projects in preparation.

Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) considers infrastructure modernization together with development of its conventional railway network as well as Rapid Service (RS) as one of its top priorities. Due to the current state of the railway junction Praha (RJP) and the need of verifying its possible development for purposes of handling prospective transport demand both in passenger and in freight transport, SŽDC prepares a tender Feasibility study for RJP including RS which will also include a preliminary market consultation planned for 8 October 2019.

During past months, Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) carried out repairs on several corridor lines in Praha and Central Bohemia. Works were going on in the section Poříčany – Praha-Libeň, Praha – Vraňany and lastly between Praha-Hostivař and Votice.

The planned reconstruction of the passenger building at České Budějovice Station is near its implementation. The Central Committee of the Ministry of Transport already approved the project intent. SŽDC will open a tender for a supplier up to the end of the year, construction works will start during 2020. Extensive repairs and modernization of the listed building dating from 1908 will cost CZK 585 million.

One of the main priorities of Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) in the field of building railway infrastructure is ensuring the implementation of the governmental Programme of Railway Rapid Service Development in the Czech Republic. A necessary prerequisite for successful preparation and implementation is intense cooperation of all components of state administration represented by the Ministry of Transport, SŽDC and regional as well as local administration authorities. That is why the infrastructure manager prepared for this year a project of presentation meetings “Current state of HSL preparation in the Czech Republic”. The project continued today by a meeting in Jihlava.

One of the possibilities how to increase railway operation safety is closing level crossings of roads with the railway. Although the administrative procedure is rather complicated, Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) was able to decrease since its creation in 2003 up to the end of last year the number of crossings on its network by 727. Currently it registers 7,847 railway crossings.

Modernization of the line Sudoměřice – Votice on Czech Rail Transit Corridor IV continues successfully. Today, Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) festively launched boring another of the two tunnels in construction – Mezno Tunnel. Its construction will allow decreasing journey times of trains running from our capital city to the south of Bohemia.

Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC) considers preparation of a high-speed line network construction in the Czech Republic as one of its current top priorities. Due to the current phase of project preparation, it is implementing a tender for elaborating documentation for a new high-speed line (HSL) Praha-Běchovice – Poříčany territorial proceedings. The tender will also include a so-called preliminary market consultation planned for 30 September.