Turnstiles to return to Prague metro after 25-year absence

Turnstiles are set to return to the Prague metro system, 25 years after they were discontinued, Mladá fronta Dnes reported. The city’s transport authority plans to invest around CZK 3.5 billion on the new system, which should be in place throughout the city’s underground rail network in 2011 or 2012, the newspaper said. In the past entrance to the metro cost one crown, paid in the form of a coin inserted into a turnstile. The modern equivalent will make use of tickets, SMS tickets and electronic cards.

Author: Ian Willoughby