Category Archives: CEDOP in medias
Do Czechs Have A Right For Better Trains?
The Czech Railways have been criticised many times since they exist. Sometimes wrongfully, because they are not the one responsible for the bad condition of the tracks their trains ride on, however, often rightfully, for some management mistakes, such as when Czech Railways sold freight railcars to Poland just to …
Metro Interview: Trains should be going under the centre of the Prague
Prague Circuit Opens, Catastrophic Scenarios Untrue
The opening of the new part of Prague circuit went smooth and the capital relieved itself. At least that’s what Radovan Steiner, the Prague councilman for transport says. „I twice travelled the length of the route personally, including the predicted problem spots, and I have to say that Jizni spojka …
Interview with the director of the Centre about perspectives of the railway transport
Director of Centre for efficient transport spoke with the magazine Železničář published by the Czech raillways. Petr Šlegr pointed out discriminatory conditions for the railway transport in the Czech republic, e.g. fuel tax exemption for inland water transport. Next Šlegr remarked a good approach of Switzerland to reduction of freight …
The Právo newspaper : The railway tunnel should limit the individual transport
The Czech newspaper Právo informed about the idea of a Prague railway city tunnel for suburban trains connecting lines from the north-east with lines from the south-east under the Prague city centre. The project was presented by the Centre for efficient transport on ocassion of initial introducing of the book …
About High Speed Rails on Czech Radio
Petr Šlegr spoke on Radio Czechia’s programme on 21 April 2010 in connection with the problems of air transport and the necessity to develop high speed railways on the European scale, but especially, to finally start building it in the Czech republic. Excerpt from the podcast: Radio Speaker: What is …