D8 highway in Czech Republic delayed

Completion of the final stretch of the D8 highway in the Czech Republic will be delayed. The 4.7km section of highway in the Czech region of Usti Nad Labem Oldrich Bubenicek will not be built by 2015 as planned originally. A landslide that occurred near Litochovice in June 2013 is the reason for the delay. Additional geotechnical surveys now have to be carried out before work can commence to to repair the damage cause by the landslide. It is possible that the results of the survey work will show that the ro
September 19, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
Completion of the final stretch of the D8 highway in the Czech Republic will be delayed. The 4.7km section of highway in the Czech region of Usti Nad Labem Oldrich Bubenicek will not be built by 2015 as planned originally. A landslide that occurred near Litochovice in June 2013 is the reason for the delay. Additional geotechnical surveys now have to be carried out before work can commence to to repair the damage cause by the landslide. It is possible that the results of the survey work will show that the route of the highway will have to be changed. In the worst case, this could delay completion of the section of highway by up to 10 years. The D8 is intended to link Czech capital Prague with the German border and is an important economic route for the country, so the survey work has been placed as a high priority by the country's Transport Ministry.
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