Skalka is a station of the Prague metro on line A. The track lies 9.3 m below the street and the station has been open since 4 November 1990.
How deep is Skalka
The track at Skalka lies 9.3 m below the street. It is the 44th deepest of 61 platforms.
Elevation: street 242 m a.s.l., track 233 m a.s.l. Depth is measured from the ground above the station to the track.
Step-free access
Step-free: lift or level access all the way to the platformStep-free entrances from the street: 3 of 7. Source: PID open data.
Entrances from the street: 7
- E1Stairs · 32 steps
- E1Level entrancestep-free
- E2Stairs · 36 steps
- E3Stairs · 39 steps
- E4Stairs · 32 steps
- E4Level entrancestep-free
- E5Liftstep-free
Official entrance names and step counts from PID.
Ridership
One ordinary Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 5 am to midnight (PID and DPP survey). No newer per-station data has been published.
About Skalka
Skalka is a Prague Metro station of Line A, located in Strašnice, Prague 10. It was opened on 4 July 1990 as the southern terminus of the extension of the line from Strašnická. On 27 May 2006 the line was extended to Depo Hostivař.
The station appears in the music video of One Armed Scissor a song by the band At The Drive In.
Text: English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Technical data
ALine A
- Depth
- 9.3 m below ground
- Track
- 233 m a.s.l.
- Street above
- 242 m a.s.l.
- Construction
- Cut-and-cover
- Opened
- 4 November 1990
- Architect
- Alena Martínková
Neighbouring stations
The whole station in 3D: escalators, passages, halls and entrances at their true depth beneath Prague.
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