D8 motorway to Germany to open on Saturday

The D8 motorway linking Prague and Germany in the direction of Dresden has been completed. The 16-kilometre missing link between Lovosice and Řehlovice should be opened up on Saturday and drivers will be able to use the full stretch of the motorway after 6pm that day. The final stretch of the motorway took ten years to complete due to protests by environmentalists against the chosen route through a protected landscape area and nature reserve. Work was also delayed by a major landslide in 2013 which buried part of the motorway under construction.