Dear Mayor,
in politics, I follow several principles, including a degree of leniency towards political novices. However, the time of defense has expired and I no longer intend to hide my disappointment over your oversteps.
When you warned some time ago about the allegedly planned felling of a tree in the Deer Moat of Prague Castle, after which it turned out that no such tree exists and that together with your team of seven media advisers you confused Deer Moat with Deer Street in a completely different place. I have this fact with raised eyebrows, but at the same time with some understanding. Even then, I was amazed that as the mayor of Prague you have time for similar activities. In the spring and summer, your predecessors focused mainly and exclusively on coordinating repairs to the transport infrastructure, because every good mayor knows that this is a period suitable for repairing roads, sidewalks or tracks.
I do not lower the list of your political successes from the spring and summer of 2021, which, according to your media outlets, include, for example, negotiating a discount on admission to the Fork Museum or offering free borrowing of pink shared bicycles. Nevertheless, as the head of state, which is to take care of the well-being of all the inhabitants of our country, I call on you to immediately rectify the dramatic situation in Prague transport and draw the appropriate consequences from mistakes unparalleled in Czech municipal policy.
As a result of a completely amateurish approach to planning and supervision of Prague road repairs, or even a completely deliberate dilettantism directed towards Prague and non-Prague drivers, the capital is completely paralyzed, which is far from being a Prague issue, but also a national one due to the importance of the metropolis.
Your idea of car drivers as someone who uses this mode of transport for their own convenience is completely out of place. The car is used mainly by those people who use it for transport to work, transport of goods, bulky purchases, transport of children to schools or for examinations in the hospital. Although the public transport system in Prague has been relatively high quality in the past, it is not always and everyone uses the use of public transport as the most advantageous option, either in terms of time or now after the increase in fares and financially. Above all, however, it is not the task of us politicians to evaluate and dictate how people should be transported. The mayor represents the interests of all Praguers, including those who prefer passenger transport for any reason. Despite the fact that the current traffic situation is so critical that it ultimately affects the public transport you are promoting – for example in Zenklova Street, where both cars and trams stand due to the surrounding closures, or newly in Veselská Street, where buses transporting to Prague people from a wide area.
The fact that road repairs are completely uncoordinated, chaotic and ill-conceived causes complications for hundreds of thousands of people every day. I hereby invite you to take a few immediate steps:
1. A humble apology to all the people currently affected by your failure,
2. Arrangement of an immediate remedy in the form of an order for the coordination of infrastructure repairs, taking into account the provision of detours,
3. Termination of cooperation with your advisers, who ridicule all complainants roughly and inappropriately on social networks about the current critical situation,
4. Consider declaring a state of danger, as the current traffic situation is so critical that it threatens, inter alia, the work of the components of the integrated rescue system,
5. Consideration of resignation from the position of mayor of the capital city of Prague.
Your actions have brought the metropolis to the brink of chaos, for which you are politically responsible. Mayor, every loss is half the victory if you learn from the fight.
Yours sincerely
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