Prague Public Transport Company will repair the ceiling slab and vestibule of metro C Florenc

Prague - Passengers in the Prague metro will face complications on line C over the next approximately five years. The reason is the repair of the ceiling slab and vestibule at the Florenc station. During the reconstruction, metro service will be suspended on selected weekends between Vltavská and Hlavní nádraží, and passengers will need to use replacement tram services. The first disruption will occur in May. The costs for the station reconstruction are 1.79 billion CZK. This was announced to journalists today by Deputy Mayor Adam Scheinherr (Praha Sobě), General Director of the transport company (DPP) Petr Witowski, and head of the metro Marek Kopřiva. The work is expected to be completed by autumn 2026 and will be carried out by the companies Metrostav DIZ and Geosan.

The Florenc station was opened in 1974 under the former name Sokolovská.

The monolithic ceiling slab has an area of about 4000 square meters and is located beneath the intersection of Křižíkova and Ke Štvanici streets. The beams and the slab itself need to be replaced due to corrosion. Work will begin in the area of the current parking lot on Na Florenci street, where the ceiling slab is primarily located above non-public areas of the metro. Workers will also need to relocate engineering networks or build temporary structures for them. The releasing and cutting of the beams will take place at the beginning of May.

This will be followed by work in the second phase outside the parking lot. "We will start closing the street Ke Štvanici, partially close Sokolovská street, and we will have to interfere with the metro tracks, where we will build supporting structures. We will have to coordinate this with the relocation of networks, which are really abundant here," said the chairman of the board of directors of Metrostav DIZ, Karel Volf. Both the first and second phases of the repairs will last 25 months each.

The vestibule of the station will also be reconstructed, and new escalators to the Florenc bus station will be created. Restorers will also repair the mosaic "Battle of Sokolovo," which is located in the vestibule.

"The work in the first phase until May 21, 2022, will not have any impact on passengers in the metro. We are planning the first weekend disruption due to the removal of the original beams for Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, and the second for a weekend in June," said Witowski.

This year, there will be six weekend disruptions, and next year there will be eight weekends when the metro will not operate. The specific dates will be clarified by DPP, as this will also depend on the weather. "We cannot have the station open from the surface in unfavorable weather," said the General Director of the transport company.

The metro will not run only on weekends; people will be able to use it on weekdays. During the disruptions, passengers will have to use a replacement tram service, which will run from the restored route and the new stop in Opletalova street via Masarykovo nádraží, Těšnov, and Vltavská to Výstaviště. Between Vltavská and Nádraží Holešovice and Hlavní nádraží and I. P. Pavlova, the metro will operate with shuttle service.