Prague Metro

Prague's underground metro is efficient, fast, clean, safe, and easy to navigate. With frequent trains coming anywhere from every 90 seconds during peak hours to every 8 minutes on weekends and holidays, and inexpensive tickets ranging from CZK 24 for 30 minutes or CZK 32 for 90 minutes to CZK 550 for a monthly pass, you really can't go wrong. Serving around one and a half million passengers per day to make it the most-used subway system per-capita in the world, the metro runs everyday from 05:00am until midnight, with occasional extensions for special events in the city such as Prague Museum Night. Practically all of Prague is easy to navigate by metro, with its dense network of stops, and extensions are being planned to eventually connect with Prague's Ruzyne International Airport. The three metro lines are color-coded, with A line being shown on maps in green, the B line in yellow, and the C line in red. Each metro stop is clearly marked and announced on trains, so finding your stop is easy. With famously long and fast-moving escalators, Prague has gained notoriety for the fact that many of the escalators in the center of the city had to be slowed down to meet EU regulations. One of the longest escalators can be found at Náměstí Míru, and it takes approximately 3 minutes to go up. The Metro first started use in 1974 with the C line, though original plans for an underground subway sytems in Prague were submitted as early as 1898 by hardware store owner V.J. Rott., and its earliest tunnels were designed to double as potential bomb shelters for the residents of Prague's city center, and there were “survival chambers” built into the original metro system for government officials to take refuge in, in the event of nuclear attack, hence the serious depth of some stations. The Muzeum, Můstek, and Florenc stops are the transfer stations between lines, and all are located in the city-center, making line changes easy. The metro loses points only for the fact that not every metro stop is accessible for those with disabilities, orientation, or mobility problems, though efforts are being made to correct this situation and many stations have elevators or wheelchair lifts. Accessible stations are marked on maps, making route-planning simple. For further information, see www.dpp.cz

www.dpp.cz, www.jizdnirady.idnes.cz/pid/spojeni/