"Prague officials want to expand the A line of the metro to Ruzyne
Airport in a 40 billion Kc ($2 billion) project that could be paid
for, in part, by European Union funds.

What a colossal waste of money. Just about nobody uses the existing
bus services to get to anywhere in between the present terminus of
Line A and the airport. And there are, what, ten buses an hour? How
the hell does that justify several kilometres of hole in the ground?

I was on that bus this morning. It works fine, there is rarely any
congestion on the route. The metro would only be a marginal improvement.
More spacious buses that were easier to board would help - bendies with
more widely spaced seats, maybe. And either on-street ticket machines
that gave change and took Euros. Or just make the service free - the
subsidy required would cost far less than building the proposed line.

There is also an existing surface tram line that goes more than halfway.
That could be extended for a fraction of the cost of a metro line.

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