Jiřího z Poděbrad is the 47th barrier-free metro station

02. 07. 2024

On Tuesday, 2 July 2024, the Prague Public Transit Company put into trial operation two pairs of new elevators connecting the platform with the street level at Jiřího z Poděbrad station on the A metro route. The construction of the elevators had taken almost three years, and the Jiřího z Poděbrad station thus became the 47th barrier-free station in the Prague metro network.

The barrier-free access of the Jiřího z Poděbrad metro station consists of two pairs of elevators, which are connected to each other by a transfer corridor. The upper station of the elevators was built on the very edge of the Jiřího z Poděbrad Square, approximately 30 meters from the pavement in Vinohradská street, almost opposite the current Jiřího z Poděbrad tram stop.

Overview of the current status of barrier-free facilities

New elevators in numbers

Elevators construction time: 1,035 days
Capacity/carrying capacity of each elevator: 21 persons/1,600 kg
Lift of the first pair of elevators: 16.9 m
- Speed: 1.6 m/s
- Travel time: <11 second
Transfer corridor length: 40 metres
Maximum slope of the transfer corridor: 0.96 ‰
Lift of the second pair of elevators: 28.1 m
- Speed: 2 m/s
- Travel time: 14 seconds
Estimated costs: CZK 500 million
Number of barrier-free stations of the Prague metro: 47 out of a total of 61 stations

Jiřího z Poděbrad: new elevators

PHOTO: DPP – Petr Hejna.

Interesting facts from the construction

Excavated rubble: more than 9,200 m³
Deepest excavation site: 51 metres below the surface
Length of the excavated transfer corridor: 72 metres including stops
Material used to secure the excavation:
- Sprayed concrete: 1,650 m³
- Reinforcing steel: 250 tonnes
Material used for definitive walling:
- Concrete reinforcement: 370 tonnes
- Concrete mixtures: 3,300 m3