PM wants working group to assess planned high speed rail links

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka wants a working group set up to discuss plans for high speed rail links, the CTK news agency reported on Monday, following the prime minister’s meeting with the head of the Rail Infrastructure Administration, Pavel Surý. The working group should be made up of experts on transport, local development and the environment. Possible high-speed routes have been identified as between Prague and Brno and Prague to Dresden, Germany, where they might be extended to Berlin and Hamburg. Sobotka will discuss the latter possibilities with the minister president of the Saxony region, Stanislaw Tillich, when he visits Prague on Tuesday. Sobotka and Surý also discussed a rail link between Prague’s Václav Havel airport and the centre of the city.