[CZ] Czechia | road infrastructure • České dálnice

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kokpit

Discussion Starter · Sep 8, 2006

Thread appointed to discuss and show motorways (dálnice) and expressways (rychlostní silnice) in entire Czechia

Motorways: 1007 km planned length; 626 km + 18 km (half profile) in operation; 61 km u/c

Expressways: 1150 km planned length; 406 km + 37 km (half profile) in operation; 36 km u/c

<2007>
newly opened: 24,0 km of motorways; 25,9 km of expressways
construction start: 65,8 km of motorways; 50,7 km of expressways

<2008>
newly opened: 40,2 km + 29,8 km (half profile) of motorways; 27,3 km of expressways
construction start: 71,9 km of motorways; 150,2 km of expressways

<2009>
newly opened: 47,7 km of motorways; 36,4 km of expressways
construction start: 96,2 km of motorways; 123,3 km of expressways

<2010>
newly opened: 33,1 km of motorways; 125,6 km of expressways
construction start: 64,5 km + 12,9 km (half profile) of motorways; 131,3 km of expressways

<2011>
newly opened: 16,1 km of motorways; 84,5 km of expressways
construction start: 7,9 km of motorways; 48,9 km of expressways

<2012>
newly opened: 72,2 km of motorways; 76,9 km of expressways
construction start: 9,7 km of motorways; 29,8 km of expressways

<2013>
newly opened: 85,1 km + 6,3 km (extension profile) of motorways; 83,9 km of expressways
construction start: 6,4 km of motorways; 33,1 km of expressways

<2014>
newly opened: 40,4 km + 6,6 km (extension profile) of motorways; 99,2 km of expressways

<2015>
newly opened: 9,7 km (extension profile) of motorways; 102,2 km of expressways

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Qwert

· #5 · Sep 9, 2006

Timoth12 said:
So this year and again 2008 and 2009 are the highlists of the highway construction. in 2009 impressive number of more than 100 km of new opened sections :cheers:

And, also the expressway between Zilina and Ostrava seem to be more and more realistic. On www.dialnice.info is an article,where Czech Ministry of Transport expressed the will to plan and construct expressway /Jablunkov bypass is already U/C,but I am not sure, whether it´s expressway/

Yes, I've read it yesterday in newspaper Pravda, here is link:
http://www.tvojepeniaze.sk/cesi-chcu-dialnicu-do-ziliny-d1n-/sk_pludia.asp?c=A060908_163617_sk_pludia_p01

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Qwert

· #7 · Sep 9, 2006

Timoth12 said:
Yes, just for the information to the others - little off topic: Pravda is now owned by British newspaper company.

I cannot see any connection between new owner of Pravda and highway between Žilina and Ostrava. It is very offtopic.

Qwert

· #46 · Dec 23, 2006

How many kilometres of highways were opened this year in Czech republic?

Qwert

· #48 · Dec 23, 2006

Nice, you are building them pretty fast.:applause:

Qwert

· #51 · Dec 28, 2006

Maybe it's sign for ships

Qwert

· #143 · Jan 26, 2008

Chriszwolle said:
St. hranice means border if i'm correct, i haven't seen this that way in western Czechia. I have never visited eastern Czechia.

This motorway is actually in Silesia what is Eastern part of Czech republic. Eastern Czechia is completely different region.

Qwert

· #149 · Jan 26, 2008

PLH said:
I've heard some time before that painting these lines directly after new asphalt was applied, is only temporary and it shoud be recured after some time

Maybe there's still not the last layer of asphalt. One section of Slovak R3 was opened before completition without the last asphalt layer and with temporary painted lines and after few weeks of winter the lines are almost invisible:

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Qwert

· #151 · Jan 26, 2008

PLH said:
I don't think so. Even if it were like you've said, this road would be full of small bumps (at least in Poland it is so when there are no all asphalt layers)

Maybe, but what sense has painting temporary lines on finished road?

Qwert

· #168 · Jan 27, 2008

x-type said:
nice. now i remember that we have few blue cat lights. actually, not cat lights, but LED in tunnels - they sign how large the distance should be kept.

i have one more question - this plant - is it nuke or thermo?

It's coal power plant in Třebovice.

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Qwert

· #394 · Aug 9, 2008 (Edited)

Chriszwolle said:
Can someone explain me the prefixes? I see I/xx or Sxx or Rxx or Dxx, I know what the last two are, but I'm not sure about the others. Do those I/xx numbers mean some kind of classification? (like class I, class II etc.)

R means expressways, D means motorway, S means road (silnice), but AFAIK "S" is not used in names of roads only in parameters of roads (e.g. S 11,5/80). You can say D1 or R50, but something like S11 I see for the first time in the last post by X236K in this thread

. Roads or "silnice" are being named simply with numbers, for example road 11. More usual form is, however, I/11 where "I" means it's first class road as ABRob said. That "I" is actually useless there since you know it's first class road from the number of digits - first class roads have one or two digits numbers, but it looks better.

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Qwert

· #396 · Aug 9, 2008

X236K said:
There will be two more important parts of road 11 U/C very soon. For detailed information follow the links (opens PDF file).

I would rather see some upgrade of I/11 between Český Těšín and Mosty u Jablunkova.

Qwert

· #399 · Aug 10, 2008

X236K said:
Believe me that this stretch is much more critical. A friend of mine died over there year ago. Anyway, there is a plan to upgrade the 11 between CT and Mosty, see the link

I believe you. Is this stretch already U/C or still only planned?

Qwert

· #417 · Sep 25, 2008

H123Laci said:
I thought Kosice is in Slovakia... :lol:

Czechs have Košice, Slovaks have Prague

: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praha,_Slovakia

Qwert

· #536 · Dec 18, 2008

pijanec said:
Nice video. 80 km/h speed limit through 2x2 tunnel? :nuts:

That's standard in Czech Republic and I think in many other countries as well.

Qwert

· #641 · May 6, 2009 (Edited)

auto_bahner said:
I have no idea. I grew up already in the Czech Republic, but I asked in our czech forum and I hope I'll have an answer ASAP

According to the book:

Transition from yellow to white horizontal traffic signs. When it
turned out that both our standards and European standards
allow white road markings for motorways as well, the foreign
purchase of yellow paint was abandoned.

There is no date when it happened, but this text is surrounded by pictures from the first half of 1970's.

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Qwert

· #645 · May 6, 2009

X236K said:
Frankly speaking, this is the first time I hear about using yellow color in Czech...

I guess there were only few such sections. At home I have old "Autoatlas ČSSR" from 1975. It's in quite bad shape

, but on its top page yellow markings are visible (sorry for quality):

BTW, another interesting fact:

At the beginning of July 1971 the Prague–
Mirošovice section is ready to be put into
operation. For motorways yellow road surface
markings were reserved. It was not equipped
with a centre guardrail since the centre barrier
line was considered at that time to be sufficient
security against driving into opposing
traffic. The traffic regulations did not contain
speed limits outside of municipalities. For that
reason drivers of fast cars could make maximum
use of vehicle speeds with impunity.

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Qwert

· #659 · May 7, 2009

H123Laci said:
btw, motorway history:

why is the prague beltway in a very initial stage?

according to the "70 years" book the its first section (slivenec-trebonice, 6.9km) was opened in 1983.

since then (26 years) it was extended with 9km in 4 stages...

why is that extremely low tempo?

Praha is in a very centralised position (maybe more like budapest) I assume that there is a significant transit traffic...

Prague has central position within Bohemia, but not within whole Czech Republic. And the reason why the outer ring is progressing so slowly may be the fact Prague has more rugged topography than Budapest.:dunno:

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Qwert

· #683 · May 18, 2009

D1 and D2 are very old motorways. In this case simple repaving won't help for long time as the roadbed is already pretty much damaged. But, it should be done anyway even though it's expensive, because some sections are indeed terrible.

Qwert

· #691 · May 19, 2009

When the R35 will be finished?

Qwert

· #710 · May 28, 2009

mapman:cz said:
Nice visualisation of D1 x R1 junction, currently under construction:

http://www.rsd.cz/rsd/rsd.nsf/0/b7ac32cb7272d864c12574f7005e072c/$FILE/MUK_ORTO_02.jpg

What type of junction is it?

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