Prague plans to build a northern vestibule and exit from the Vltavská metro station

Prague - The Prague Public Transit Company (DPP) will prepare a feasibility study for the construction of the northern vestibule of the Vltavská metro station with an exit to the Bubny railway station. This was approved by the city councilors today. The vestibule is intended to serve the future district that is to be created in the Bubny-Zátory area, where there used to be a freight station. The city also plans to build a concert hall there.

"Even during the design of the Vltavská metro station at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, the possibility of creating a second vestibule to the north was provisionally structurally established in this station," states the approved document. For the reason that the area is sufficiently served by trams, the construction ultimately did not take place.

The current leadership of the metropolis plans to change this in light of the upcoming development in the area, as they want to ensure the service of a new district located between the Vltavská and Nádraží Holešovice metro stations for up to 25,000 people primarily with the help of public transport. "Given the location of the new district and the resulting complicated and long access routes to the existing southern vestibule, it is highly appropriate to implement the northern vestibule," the document states.

The city also plans to build a concert hall at Vltavská, for which architects are currently working on the documentation. Construction is expected to begin in 2027 and finish five years later. According to estimates, costs are expected to be around 12 billion crowns. The construction of the new cultural center is, according to the municipal leadership's plan, intended to initiate the transformation of the entire surrounding area of Bubny-Zátory.