Dopravní podnik Praha

The Prague transit system is comprised of the metro, trams, and buses. With the exception of coming from the airport (bus # 119) and going to and from the zoo (bus #112), I just took the metro (and one tram) while in Prague.
There are three metro lines: the A line (green), B line (yellow), and C line (red). At the Můstek station the A and B lines connect, the A and C lines connect at Muzeum Station, and the B an C lines cross at Florenc, making it easy to connect to another line. Prague does have transit zones, and if you go out of the central zone you do have to pay extra fare (according to the transit website), but as a tourist, transit zones aren’t relevant, as it seems like everything will be in the central transit zone, including the entire metro system (unlike Vancouver, where you have to pay an extra $ 1.25 for a three minute trip because the SkyTrain crosses a transit zone).
The adult fare for a 90 minute ticket is 32 CZK, but if you’re taking a quick trip, there are 30 minute tickets at the reduced price of 24 CZK. (The fares for children and seniors is half the price of an adult fare, and children under 6 and seniors over 70 are free.) I think it’s a great idea to have a reduced fare for a quick trip, as paying $ 2.75 (the cost of a one zone adult fare in Vancouver) for a five minute trip is ridiculous.
All in all, I had no issues with the transit system, although on my first day in Prague, as I was on the metro coming from the airport (so I hadn’t even gotten to my hotel yet), I was punched in the face by a psycho.
I was on the metro with my large suitcase, duffle bag, and purse. The metro wasn’t full, and there were several empty seats, including a couple across from me, so I didn’t feel bad about putting my duffle bag on the empty seat beside me, prepared to move it should someone want to sit down. After a couple of stops, a very large man (tall and big boned, not as in fat) aggressively stomped into the train, rushed up to where I was sitting (even though the door was closer to the empty seats across from me), grabbed my duffle bag, and attempted to throw it on the ground. He wasn’t trying to rob me, but rather he wanted to sit down and thought it was OK to grab my bag and fling it to the ground, instead of politely asking me to remove my bag. I’m not an asshole and would never take up an empty seat with my bag when someone wants to sit down, and in fact if he had even as so much glanced in my direction, I would have understood that he wanted to sit down, and move my bag. But he clearly had severe mental issues and just stormed onto the train so quickly and grabbed my bag. Due to the swiftness of his actions, I couldn’t have avoided him grabbing my bag, but because I am always aware of my surroundings, I immediately saw what was happening, and managed to grab my bag before he fully flung it to the ground.
After he grabbed my bag, I of course yelled at him. He sat down beside me, and before I could get up and move, he started shoving me and hitting me in the face, and for several minutes, we were yelling and punching each other. I only know a few words in Czech, but one of the words I do know is píča, which is what he called me. During the course of our physical fight, he punched me directly in the face, on my cheek, just below my temple (thus I luckily did not sustain a brain injury). It was a really hard punch, but it really didn’t hurt too much (maybe it was the adrenaline?). I was sure that by the next day my face would be black and blue and swollen, but surprisingly, I didn’t have a mark on me, not even a hint of a bruise, although my face was a bit tender for a few days. Despite the fact that a man was beating on a woman less than half his size (I’m only five feet tall and he was well over six feet, and I’m not a heavy person), not one person did a damn thing. Kinda made me feel like I was in Vancouver, to be honest.
When I tell people this story, a common question asked is, «So, did you get off the train?» The answer is no, because it wasn’t my stop. He got off after a couple of stops, and then a few stops later, I got off at my stop, Náměstí Míru.

«Dopravní podnik hlavního města Prahy»,
… das bedeutet sinngemäß in deutscher Sprache «Verkehrsbetriebe der tschechischen Hauptstadt Prag».
Nun, jetzt bin ich insgesamt das vierte Mal mit meiner Ehefrau hier in der wunderschönen Stadt Prag zu Gast gewesen. Als solcher kommt man hier in dem herrlichen «Paris des Ostens» nicht an v.g. Unternehmen vorbei, wie man sagt.
Für uns war die Tram zuverlässig und brachte uns immer wohin wir wollten. Ja, und hervorzuheben ist übrigens, dass das Fahrpreisentgelt für ein 72 Stundenticket mit 310 CZ Kronen absolut günstig ist.
Die Verkehrsbetriebe verdienen aus erlebter Erfahrung mein persönliches Vertrauen und klare Empfehlung.