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According to [1] the previous mayor was Adriana Krnáčová [2]. There's not much information there. Can you elaborate why she was disastrous? There seems to be a connection to the Blanka tunnel complex [3]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_municipal_election,_201... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Krn%C3%A1%C4%8Dov%C3%A... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanka_tunnel_complex

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From my point of view: most building and development were stopped or stuck, so prices of flats skyrocketed and infrastructure was not maintained.

Part of reason was overreaction to the mayor who built the tunnel - the construction was overpriced and took 10 times the time it should, so mayors after him were afraid to invest too much in infrastructure at all. Which had negative effects in bridges falling apart, and city being in permanent traffic jam.

My other point of view: I used to be active member of Czech Pirate Party years ago when it was small, and it is still a little funny and frightening to me at the same time that those people will be responsible for city of 1 million people. But, what's the worse that can happen...

Well it will be hard for him as reconstruction of Barrandov bridge should start within 2 years. It's major road for transit in/around Prague.

Blanka tunnels is an older issue, but under Krnáčová the entire Prague traffic system basically collapsed. There are frequent traffic jams and basically all bridges are in disastrous state.

Libeň bridge, one of the only few Cubist style bridges in the world, has been closed for past two years, Troja pedestrian bridge collapsed last year and just a few days ago it turned out another bridge has to be collapsed and rebuilt from scratch.

Add to that the fact that she called the people complaining about the traffic issues "zpovykaní" or whiners and that adds up to a lot of people not liking her at all.

[1] https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/collapse-of-prague... [2] https://www.radio.cz/en/section/business/section-of-key-prag... & https://prague.tv/en/s72/Directory/c207-Travel/n16048-Bridge...

> so prices of flats skyrocketed

This was amazing. A friend of mine has bought a humble flat and got 100% profit on the investment in just a couple of years! What are the chances the prices are going to fall significantly? Should I advice him to sell now?

Hard to say...

If you compare Prague prices to local salaries, they are crazy inflated. But if you compare it to other european capitals, it's not so bad. I don't think that prices will collapse any time soon.

Probably best to not advise anyone based on random comments from some dude/dudette on the internet...

It's usually nice to advice as long as you don't insist you're right and as long as the person you advice doesn't follow your advices blindly but just takes your opinion and the observations behind it in consideration. For some people that can't handle advices the right way a misleading (and the chances it's misleading are always high) advice can be very harmful but for others advices from reasonable people that know what they're saying can be a valuable source of information. Anyway, that was me who has told him "my opinion is you should buy this flat now!" to remove his hesitations and it turned out a huge win, I feel like I should also provide a clue when to sell to secure it perhaps.

i do not think the bridges did degrade suddenly, you need decades of neglect. so this is not work of one major.

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