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According to the view of legal interpretation, Uber or its drivers are violating the Road Transport Act, Trade Act and the Civil Code in the Czech Republic. The Magistrate of Prague is leading several administrative procedures against them. However, the managers of Uber are not worried: they say they aren’t …

The taxi drivers will most likely lose one of their most advantageous “stepladders”. The government of the capital wants to prohibit them from entering Pařížská Street and the Old Town Square. That is one of the riskiest spots – the taxi drivers pick up tourists there and often charge them …

More than a quarter of the accommodation in the Czech Republic takes place in private due to dedicated web portals, and this fraction continues to grow rapidly. For the state, it means the risk of tax evasion. The price of a room for two people in a three-star guest house …

By 2025, the transport company must build lifts in nineteen metro stations. It does not have the money yet. More than 100,000 suitcases have already been carried by porters from the station hall of the Nádraží Veleslavín Station to the bus stop of the same name during 2015. And their …

The editors of the newspaper MF DNES, along with magistrate officials, conducted checks of taxi drivers on 26 January 2016 at night. Eleven out of the fifteen tested drivers cheated. At first glance, it seems that the situation in Prague is getting worse instead of improving despite all the different …

The ill-famed taxi driver Aleš R., a member of the gang from around the Prague Ruzyně Airport, attacked in August 2011 again. This time there were no pleasantries and he beat his client, who refused to pay CZK 500 for a journey of less than four km. It is the …

It cost billions of crowns but there was not enough money for an escalator? This question will come to mind of the passengers at the metro station Veleslavín, who will need to change from subway to an airport-bound bus. In the area where we can expect constant movement of people …

The line is now extended from the station Dejvická via Bořislavka, Veleslavín, Petřiny to the station Motol Hospital. The train will take some eight minutes to drive through the six-kilometre-long stretch. The new section is 6134 metres long. The journey from the underground station Motol Hospital to Můstek will take …

German airlines AirBerlin will fly to Prague from mid-April 2015. This is not just some random experiment, but full coverage of the Prague-Berlin line from the start. It will provide 20 journeys a week. Between the Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague and the Tegel Airport in Berlin, AirBerlin will fly …

The entire tube line A will be closed in both directions over Easter because of repairs. The tube will not run from Friday afternoon till Tuesday morning.The reason for this traffic interruption is the repair of railroad switches and replacement of turnout sleepers, said Jiří Štábl, a press agent for …