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12/03/2017
A lightening inspection of Prague’s bridges, in the wake of the collapse of one of the city’s footbridges on Saturday, has revealed serious problems in other constructions as well.
Prague City Hall is considering closing down several more bridges for emergency repairs, among them the Radotin footbridge and Hlavkův Bridge.
According to the Prague councillor for transport Petr Dolínek trams may be banned from Hlavkův Bridge until its renovation has been completed. A decision is to be made in the coming weeks.
Dolínek rejected claims that Prague City Hall had neglected maintenance of the city’s bridges, saying Prague had invested 1.2 billion crowns into the maintenance of bridges between 2014 and 2017.
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12/03/2017
Prague Mayor Adriana Krnáčová has ordered an assessment of the latest expertise into the footbridge across the Vltava River which collapsed on Saturday injuring four people, two seriously.
The expert assessment reporting on the state of the bridge is just three weeks old and contained no warning that the bridge could present a public hazard. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
It is believed that the footbridge, which was thirty years old, was damaged by corrosion. Emergency crews have been working to clear the debris. The remains of the bridge are unstable and will have to be torn down.
Until a new bridge has been constructed a ferry will serve passengers needing to cross from Císařský Island to Troja.
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12/03/2017
The lower house of Parliament will meet on Tuesday to start debating the 2018 state budget. As approved by the outgoing government the budget has a deficit of 50 billion crowns.
Deputy Finance Minister Alena Schillerová, who is to serve as finance minister in the new government, would like to see it approved without major changes, but observers predict a tough battle ahead. Deputies, including those of the outgoing coalition, are proposing shifts amounting to sixty billion crowns.
The lower house needs to approve the budget by the end of the year otherwise the country would have to start operating on a provisional budget.
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12/03/2017
The extreme Taxis Gladiator Race, copying the Velká Parbubice Steeplechase, including the famous Taxis hurdle, saw its premiere in Pardubice on Saturday. It proved a gruelling track for the 1,200 contestants, many of whom had to give up half-way. Freezing fog, mud and ice- old water in which the contestants waded, weighed down by rubber tyres, proved a major test of strength and stamina.
The track for human contestants was the same as for horses i.e. 6,900 metres but instead of 31 hurdles it had 39. The winner,Tomáš Tvrdík, covered the track in 33.5 minutes.
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12/02/2017
Thousands of people attended the annual re-enactment of the historic Battle of Austerlitz in South Moravia on Saturday afternoon. Around 1,000 military buffs staged the re-enactment of the operation in which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the armies of Russian Tzar Alexander I and Austrian Emperor Franz I.
The Battle of Three Emperors took place on December 2, 1805 near the town of Slavkov (or Austerlitz in German), south of Brno. 20,000 men were killed in action. The battle’s re-enactment is a popular event accompanied by craft and food fairs.
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12/02/2017
Hundreds of people gathered on Prague’s Old Town Square on Saturday afternoon for the traditional Christmas tree lighting ceremony, marking the start of Advent and the opening of the city’s biggest Christmas market.
The lighting ceremony of the 22-metre tall spruce felled near Křivoklát, South Bohemia, was enhanced by a selection from Bedrich Smetana’s cycle of symphonic poems My Country. Visitors will find 99 stalls on Old Town Square and three Nativity scenes, one of which is live.
The Christmas market offers visitors a rich cultural program with some 700 performers appearing on stage in the course of the next three weeks.
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12/02/2017
A concrete footbridge across the Vltava River near Troja collapsed on Saturday injuring four people. Two of the injured are in serious condition, one of them in an induced coma.
The cause of the accident is being investigated. It is believed that the footbridge was damaged by corrosion. Emergency crews are clearing the debris.
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12/02/2017
Sunday should bring partly cloudy to overcast skies around the country with day temperatures between -2 and 2 degrees Celsius.
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12/02/2017
Around 4,500 doctors will not be able to start issuing electronic prescriptions as of January 1st, according to a law that has made them compulsory as of next year, the ctk news agency reports. The State Institute for Drugs Control says it will be unable to process applications filed after November 24th in time.
The law introducing electronic prescriptions went into effect in 2007 but up till now doctors could use them on a voluntary basis. Doctors in small towns and villages have complained that the new measure will place a big administrative burden on them. The measure will affect over 43,000 Czech physicians.
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12/02/2017
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka will represent the Czech Republic at the Paris Summit on Climate Change on December 12th, the Office of the Government said in a press release. It will be Mr. Sobotka’s last foreign trip as head of government.
On December 13th President Zeman will appoint a new government. The Sobotka government has already handed in its resignation, but remains in office until the new cabinet takes over.
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