PM: Railway route leading to international airport will be completed by 2024

Prime Minister Bohsulav Sobotka has said that a planned railway route through Prague 6 to the city’s international airport should be complete by 2024. Speaking to journalists on Monday, he added the project would cost some 24 billion crowns. It is not clear whether the route, as currently conceived, will at all be subsidized from European funds. Transport Minister Dan Ťok confirmed that current plans counted on part of the track running through an underground tunnel to be built in Střesovice; the local city council is against the modernization of an already existing above-ground route.