Three lane option for part of D1 rejected: report

The Ministry of Transport has rejected plans to turn the country’s main motorway between Prague and Brno into a three lane highway for a large part of its length according to the news server Aktualne.cz. Instead of adding an extra lane along a 160 kilometre stretch of the motorway the existing lanes will be widened, it said. The Ministry of Transport eventually decided that the 50 billion crown cost of an extra lane in each direction was too high compared with the cheaper reconstruction option billed at around 20 billion crowns. The major reconstruction is set to start in 2017.

Author: Chris Johnstone