The Libeň Bridge is a Prague bridge complex of six bridges from 1928, designed by Pavel Janák, across which trams have not run since January 2024.
The Libeň Bridge is a bridge complex made up of six bridges. It was built in 1928 to a design by the architect Pavel Janák and has never been repaired. Trams have not run across it since 11 January 2024, when operation was closed because of defects caused by severe frosts.[1]
Plans for reconstruction
The leadership of Prague under Mayor Adriana Krnáčová (ANO) planned in 2014 to 2018 to demolish the historic bridge over the river and replace it with a new structure. Their successors in the previous electoral term decided on a repair. At the end of 2023, on the basis of structural models, it was decided to create a replica on the original piers.[1][2][3]
The contract and the intervention of the competition authority
In 2022 Technická správa komunikací selected the firm Metrostav TBR for the reconstruction. After changes to the project, including the replica, the Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže found that it was in effect a new contract awarded without a tender procedure and ordered that work under the original contract not continue. The partly built section, replacing one of the demolished bridges of the complex, had to be preserved. In October 2026 the roads administration announced a separate contract for its completion with an estimated value of CZK 237 million excluding VAT.[1][2][3]
Chronology
- — Technická správa komunikací hlavního města Prahy announced a separate contract for completing the partly built section of the Libeň Bridge, which it had to preserve after the intervention of the Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže. → Blesk.cz Pražský deník