WHAT WOULD WE LOVE TO CHANGE IN OUR CITY? (Honest Guide)
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- We love our city. We also hate it. These are the easy and often FREE changes we would do in our city that we think would make it better.
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0:00 INTRO
0:25 Orientation signs for tourists
1:07 Recycling in downtown Prague
1:40 Havel's Market Closed
2:36 Museum of Tourism
3:19 Brownfield in the city centre
5:33 Public place closed
6:23 Stag Moat closed
7:38 Ideas for the future
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The Honest guide (Janek & Honza) should be offered a seat on the city council to promote tourism from within the city government. He is a great ambassador for tourism in the city, I can see how this can benefit both tourists and residents.
I prefer the channel because it gets things moving. They have more freedom with the channel.
The council is an elected body, they can run for office if they want to.
Some years ago in a public debate with the mayor, Janek mentioned he didn't want to get into local politics.
@@jurajkovac8507 I understand that Janek may not want to get involved in politics as an elected official as things can get complicated. pauldjreadman noted he has more liberty this way. I totally agree. Some municipalities have public committees to provide feedback to officials. As a consultant, he certainly has valuable insight that he can provide.
president of the czech republic 2040
@@ushirojudo FWIW, that's already taking place to a certain extent. The current city leadership is the best in a long while, and they tend to take cues from Janek and other personalities that have voiced an opinion on Prague affairs. There's even some sort of a limited communication channel going, though I get the impression that that's as far as the Honest Guide guys want to go.
We've said this so many times but we seriously love seeing Prague through your videos with your 'honest' opinions and observations!
4:55 - There is nothing as permanent as temporary solutions. 😃
I would get rid of «Euronet» ATMs. Also, I would get rid of Thai massages and Russian souvenir shops.
OK. Now we have russian massages and thai souvenir shops. :D
yeah, same, why so many russian shops???
I think russian souvenir shops now will go by themselfs
@@mariosphere by Russian we mean "Russian". All of their stuff are made in China.
A suggestion here: it would be so nice to see a small banner on the video indicating the location you are in every time you are showing something or wandering around. E.g. Jakubská and Templová, Památnik padlým vojákum, etc. It took me a while to find that monument in Google Maps. Keep up your great videos. Dekuji!
Yes, Janek. Tell your Tourist Board for you're an Internet Ambassador to Czech. Catch up with time. Furthermore, they should pay you for all the good work done to this city especially. Many foreign tourists benefited much from you. I hope to visit this late summer.
Stag Moat was my favorite secret place to walk and hang out. I definitely agree it should be opened!
I love how he loves his country but doesn’t lie about it and points out the bad bits as well, really lives up to the name HONEST GUIDE ❤️💪🏽
Would make the punishment for graffitirs more severe, the graffiti in the city ruins the beautiful historic building especially in the center
Forced labor seems like a good option.
I'd establish more public restrooms, so we don't have to smell drunks' urine all summer long...
That is not a problem of restroom availability, but willingness to use them.
@@rogerflorida1498 if only they make it on soil or grass
I do not think that this is the problem. For example, you can smell it at the metro station Černý Most. And there are public toilets there.
@Milo Do not misunderstand, they just piss there.
How much are these, btw? I'd say if they were free, the situation will be different.
Your videos since the reset have been great. (Yes, I realize there have only been two.) This is why I love this channel. It makes Prague feel fully three-dimensional.
You’re very kind, thanks!
The reset...?
@@devilsadvocate2643 They had a back catalogue of several years worth of videos. For reasons they deleted them. There's an almost 2 hour long video on this channel about it.
@@HONESTGUIDE Run for office & change the problems from the inside.
@@HONESTGUIDE I agree with you about there should be separate bins for landfill , paper/cardboard and bottles/cans. The money #Prague gets from cashing in the bottles and cans can go to helping the local homeless with free meals and small box of toiletries { & snack vouchers } daily 🤷 . Opps #sorry in my earlier direct comment reply to you from your 🏧charges video for suggesting #Prague is a country 😳 . I forgot it's a city 🏙 and I don't get out of Australia much. John from Australia 👨💼🇦🇺🇸🇯
3:46 It looks like Austria is trying to reclaim Bohemia and Moravia
those are border stones, sidewalk is Czech and road is Austrian :-D
And Czech Silesia
maybe it would improve?
Last year I came to Prague with my bicycle in order to kick off a bicycle tour to Germany. I noticed that bicycle lanes don't really exist here
It has never been easier to open pop-up bicycle lanes in times of little traffic like now. The cycling movement will follow, as soon as everyone can feel more safe.
I'm not a Praguer, and I've probably played far too much Cities Skylines, so you might be like "what?" at a few of mine:
*The money changers*
-I'd close the money changers and Thai Massage places when their licences expire, simply by not renewing the licences (I'm guessing these kinds of places have to be licensed to operate), and I'd ask the municipal police to monitor the money changers, and get PČR to raid them and their owners' homes as soon as they legally can (It'd be great to see the operators of the money changers explain themselves to a judge and jury, and to see the jury return after deliberations with "guilty" verdicts for all of them)
*infrastructure*
-I'd build a new tram connection in the city centre, from Muzeum metro station, connecting the track on Vinohradská used by routes 11 and 13 to the track between the buildings the National Museum uses, then new track up Václavske Námesti, to Vodičkova and Jindrišska (where I'd install a "grand union junction", so trams can turn in any direction), then going further up Václavske Nám., turning onto 28.Rijna (with passive provision for trams to go up Na Přikope if that was to be proposed later on), then down Národni to the existing track.
-I'd demolish the Parking Centrum multi-story car park, reduce Wilsonova to 2 lanes in each direction, then demolish the road viaduct, turning it into a surface level avenue, with another new tram route in the centre. Going further up, I'd fill in the tunnel that Nábřeží Kapitana Jaroše uses to go under Bubenská, and turn all of that junction into a new square. At Vlatvská metro station, I'd demolish the bridge that Bubenská uses to go over the tramway, and I'd fill in the tram ramps on Antoninská and Bubenská (I generally demolish the motorways that are on Cities Skylines maps when you load them up as soon as I can, and I generally turn them into surface streets, or put them underground. This is happening in a number of American cities, where local governments are replacing motorways built in the 1950s-70s, such as the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, WA, which was demolished and replaced by the SR 99 tunnel)
-I'd also build a load of new homes on the land by Bubny station bounded by Argentinská, and other land like it, along with commercial and office buildings in other areas
-I'd demolish the bridge that Vrbenského uses to cross Argentinská, and replace it with a normal crossroads, when that becomes life-expired
-I'd remove the concrete panels that the tram track is embedded in, and replace them with surfaces that are more harmonious with their surroundings, such as cobbles in cobbled streets, or grass in a few other places (a bit like a lot of the new French tramways)
-I'd also improve the bike infrastructure, such converting K Pazderkám and Čimická to single carriageway roads, and using the current eastbound carriageway as a cycle track instead (I'd use the its full width as one), and I'd also take out the turning filter lanes (I've probably watched far too many Bicycle Dutch and Not Just Bikes videos)
*The DPP and PID*
-I'd start converting the entirety of the DPP bus fleet from mostly diesel buses to mostly hybrid, battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell buses, and mandate that contracted bus operators do the same for buses that operate either entirely within Prague, or enter and leave Prague on interurban routes
-I'd re-introduce trolleybuses to the streets (firstly on a combination of bus routes 143 and 176, then combinations of routes 207 and 133, routes 136 and 213, and on the current trolleybus route 58 and bus route 140).
-I'd merge fare zones P, 0 and B into one zone (zone P), so if you travel to and from Central Bohemia, you only need 1 ticket and not 2, and introduce a 2 ride ticket (something like a return ticket, with 2 90 minute journeys for 1,5* the price of a 90 minute single ticket), a 10 ride ticket (10 90 minute journeys for the price of 8), either as a book of 10 tickets that you rip out and stamp with each journey, or a long ticket with 10 strips that you stamp each time you travel, and a weekly ticket (7 day's travel for the price of 5)
bro you live in 21st century, but the reality is Mafia 90´s club with the same people in the boss chairs :D This will never happen, because it costs too much, it is hard to project (not for normal people, but for lazy politicians). Bruh we live in a country where Z-man is rotting and dying in president chair, disturbing state system :D The prime minister is a fucking mafia boss who is in sight of European jurisdiction offices and we are locked in a fucking town areas controlled by police for no fucking logical and smart reason, kids have no school, people can not work, government is spending millions on stupid non working contracts, their policy is a chaos and hospitals are collapsing. And without corona, there are much more problems in the system how things are being done. I like your idea, but first of all, we should fix this before going on your ideas. And I think that this system problem is a gigantic pile of shit which is destroying the city and the whole country.
I first went to Prague in early 1991, when there were still Russian troops milling about. I lived for a few years in Prague later in the 90s and have loved watching how it has blossomed over the last 30 years. I have been all over the world, and it is still my favorite city and closest to my heart.
I wouldn't change the Czech signs, I got around just fine with the pictures in them. Not having English helped me feel less like a tourist. And I also learned the local name for a lot of places, which was also pretty nice.
The rest of the ideas are great tbqh, specially the trash cans (which is something I saw quite frequently in Austria), and the curb extensions, and the locked public spaces, etc. Great video.
If you wanna feel less like a tourist you could visit places that don’t get any tourists. Having both Czech and English would make people learn the names of places, no?
@@linusfotograf I lived in Kobilisy for almost a year, I didn't get to go to Staré Město that much because of COVID, I would go to Dobřechovice quite frequently to visit a friend, and attended Mass near Budějovická. Not to sound rude, but I did try to visit places that don't get many tourists.
Good points! But please let the tourist signs stay Czech only. I actually loved it being non-English when I visited Prague (as a tourist) in 2019. They point you to a Czech spot in Czech Republic, which are also in Czech on maps. So Czech language makes a lot of sense. Learning a little bit of local language is part of the fun.
Hard agree on this. There's an icon next to the Czech name anyway, and it's not particularly difficult to do a bit of research ahead of time in whichever language you're familiar with, to find out what certain things are called in Czech.
I even suppose a lot if tourists don't speak English anyway like Germans, Chinese, Koreans, Russians (some of the biggest tourist groups).
I am horrified to see Havel's market go. It was part of the experience to me and many others who bought souvenirs here. I do not live in Prague but it is my very honest opinion that your city would not benefit from even more pubs/restaurants.
They could, somehow, fuse the 2 things together as well, for example. In a more organized and "tidy" way. The wooden structure looks quite "characteristic" (I hope it's the right word), while turning it into an empty street with chairs and tables would probably be a bit too "random". Maybe
ON the recycling part, you just need bigger bins. Having separate recycling bins doesn't do anything as trash companies are still required to clean the trash to sell it for recycling as people purposefully or accidentally put the wrong things in the wrong bin not to mention some items being a mix of materials to begin with. Having separate bins just increases workload, cost and CO2 emissions (you require either bigger trash trucks or multiple runs). (Also mixed materials are the bane of the existence of any recycler. The biggest recyclable in my country says the whole "move away" from plastic just worsened the amount of trash that's unrecyclable as companies removed most plastic but than kept a plastic window or plastic liner)
Also doesn't help that depending on the recycler what needs to go in the paper and plastic bin chances. For example in my current city I'm not allowed to throw any paper in the paper bin if it has used for for food while pretty much any and all plastic can go in the plastic, except some specific chemical variants. And the previous city I lived you could throw "food related paper" in the paper bin, except for pizza boxes and other heavily tainted paper, but not news paper. While plastics had a different list of plastics allowed.
And especially for tourists even if you nationally unify those standards and make them feel logical you wouldn't solve the issue as, well, tourists generally aren't aware of the ins and outs of foreign recycling. Most people aren't even aware of their own region/city/countries recyclables beyond some very broad lines like "plastic/paper/green/misc.".
Separate recycling bins are basically only useful for people to feel environmentally friendly while making the trash issue worse and for local governments to ask higher trash pickup prices.
Simply bigger bins are cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
I love Prague. I was there in 2019. I really like the architecture. Unfortunately, I didn't have a good experience with the tourist agency. I wish they were more helpful. I really want to be back sooner. For me the city was clean and I really enjoy strolling across it. Greetings from Buenos Aires
Maybe just don't use some weird agencies at all, just go to Prague and do what you want. :-)
Find a friend in Prague and have them show you around. Much better :)
As I am also from Prague, I know all the things you list and I agree 100%!!! 👌Thank you for representing Prague so well, I hope your suggestions for change will be seen by someone who has the possibility to implement them! You guys are really great! ☺️
Skvělé video! 🍺
You find gentleman bring such positively to Prague.
Thank you, for your hard work, Janek & Honza. 🙏🏻
I'd change the voice clips in trams, metros etc. into both Czech and English. For example "Příští zastávka" could be said in English as well. -Coming from a local Czech
There are some cities that do that for "tourist relevant" stops and I think it's a pretty nice thing. No need to do it for the whole public transport system though.
Don't they have a "stop sign" in metros that shows stops in both Czech and English?
Adding an English translation to heavily touristed tram stops -- like Pražský hrad or Staroměstské náměstí -- would also help keep tourists oriented and traffic moving smoothly. ... And when tram routes are being modified or suspended (usually in spring or summer, but not always) Dopravní podnik puts out large stand-up signs with lots of helpful details ... but everything is in Czech. Adding a sentence or two in English, German or French would be super helpful.
"You can't walk here you can't drive here now there's just a little brown field in the middle of town... WRONG"🤣
Boat?
Probably the same problem as with the extended 'provisional' sidewalk, to put up some blocks, no permit is required... It's the same everywhere, they've put in a lot of provisional bike lanes, here in Brussels, just some concrete blocks separating them from the cars, but if they want anything more permanent, like raised bike lanes, they need to get a permit first, which means a public inquiry, a meeting, possible appeals which cause more delay... It's a bit sneaky, but these provisional test constructions are quite handy to circumvent all the red tape.
Thank you for always being Honest Janek! ❤️
Ahoj I love your videos. My father was Czech and your videos bring back good memories maybe one day I will get back there.
Such a bittersweet video. Thank you Janek & Honza.
Definitely more public toilets. I live in Prague 1, next to the Kafka's head and 2km within that circle it is really hard to find a public toilet... especially now during the pandemic. Using restaurants and caffees wasn't a good option even when everything was closed... That is the only thing I am missing. The rest is quite ok, minor changes like the sidewalks, signs etc. Prague is wonderful, I wish everyone had a chance to come and enjoy this amazing city.
Yes! Open the Stag Moat! It looks like such a lovely walk, and you can't get in. What a tease.
Is there a Czech equivalent of the U.K. OBE/CBE/MBE honours system and is there any means for non-Czech people to nominate Janek et al. for their tireless work to promote not just Praha but Česká republika as a whole and their relentless protection of visitors from that which is Český and honest and real and that which is tourist trash, predatory or a scam? These boys deserve formal recognition by Česko as a whole for their work. How can we make this so...?
I love how you share your honest opinion
- Recycling bins... I guess that would include some compost bins where to leave their half eaten trdelnik
- Chairs and tables in the middle of a pedestrian street... that's very common all around Spain, not only in Barcelona.
I love that while most would end with plain criticism, you will point out and provide constructive ideas - I hope they pick a few pointers from you and work on some/all of them.
One problem I faced when I was in prague in 2020 was little on no signage at prague railway station for tourists to understand... we took 2 trains (one to kutna hora and other to budapest) and both the times we had a hard time finding the platforms which the train left from...
But the train conductor was a very nice man and he helped us a lot during our trip to kutna hora as we had to change the train in between
Jeleni Prikop was the coolest discovery I made during my long walk around Prague a few years ago. It sucks that it's closed.
Wonderful video again. I have never been to Prague but I've been watching your videos since Lockdown began and I can't wait to visit there. I'm from the UK and I love cold weather so I'm sure to enjoy my trip any time of the year.
Janek, thanks! 1000 times thanks!
Ive been to prague in October 2019, and every video of yours makes me wanna travel to Prague once again.
Much love ;)
The city was so warm this summer. I’ll definitely add more tree and solutions to refresh the streets,like fountains for exemple.
I love that everything stays in Czech language
Me too, I don't know even how to order Czech food in English.
I just wish the city centre became a place for locals to live in and spend time in again like in Vienna. The city centre is so disconnected from Czech people. It really just feels like a place for tourists now.
Not that there's anything wrong with tourists, but there should be a balance. Not to mention.... As a tourists I would like to go to the centre to meet locals. Not get scammed and be surrounded by other foreigners.
I'm czech and I always lived in P1 😁
Well, now with covid the place really changed. I spend most of my time on Újezd, a place just under Petřín and a few steps from the National theatre. And I appreciate seeing Czechs here. But I knew many people, mainly students, that live either in dorms or apartments in the city centre even before covid
@@Zizalaonfire it's possible, especially if you live more together.
1:22 To be fair, I rarely see recycling bins even in Germany. Most of the time you see them on train platforms but not put up by the municipal garbage collection within the city. Actually, one can be glad that there are bins at all. Some cities hardly put up any.
Same here, it's at every train station.
The cities worry about induced supply/demand. If you put up more garbage bins, people will throw away more garbabe. If it's an entire recycling system ... nothing stops the locals from using them for free instead of paying their garbage disposal fees (assuming there are any), or for other reasons might want to use them instead of "properly" disposing of it. So that sort of thing needs to be carefully planned.
Visiting Prague in March. Enjoy your videos and can’t wait to visit
I already can't wait for a video called "We helped to change our city."
They already did, by planting honest lawn.
@@Pyrochemik007 And getting rid of some money exchange scams.
There’s a lot of graffiti in Prague and surrounding areas. By not removing it, encourages more graffiti. Therefore, the council should have special teams going around the area removing graffiti. Simple!
Hey Janek ! Lovely episode.
One quicky ...stag moat is opened after so long time. You can go !! Just the tunnel where Honza stood is still closed.
However it is definitely worth climbing there
The first change I’ll do if I have a chance is to get rid of the old ticket machines, especially at the metro stations. They operate only by the coins, and imagine that - you arrived at Florenc at 4:30 am, you have only paper money, at least 100 CZK, buy a ticket...Everything is closed or the stuff don’t want to brake you cash early morning. That’s my own experience, yes I got fined (07.2019). Now it’s little bit simple because there is PID Litacka app, you can buy ticket there but you have to have cellular data to do it, once your from county out of EU, it’s difficult. Especially on arriving. The same situation is on station Kacerov as I remember.
Please Prague, delete the old machines and replace them by the new version, that we could pay by card.
Can't wait to go back to Czech. Interrailing and Colours of Ostrava. And Prag the beauty of course! Top video as always lads.
No mention of your bete noir the bureaux de change! Good video.
Thanks for great information.God bless you and your family
A little part of the Stag Moat (near the tennis court) was opened this weekend! ✨💪🏾
I'd love to see more cool street art. I don't know why, but other cities have so much more of it. I'm talking about small individual art, but also bigger commissioned murals.
Our first trip to Prague we stayed at a small hotel on Havelska. The farmer's would wake us up at 6 am so we'd go down, buy some fruit and head off to sightsee before the other tourists woke up. Sad to hear that it's going away. We'll just have to spend more time in Olomouc or Brno, I guess.
Love the idea of centre seating for the cafes!
You know.....I could see a mayoralship in your future! All of your ideas seemed bang on!
Not cheap, but where's the single metro link between the airport and city center?
There is public bus line... 30 min to center.
@@kamilasykorova3925 Which one is direct? Honza's last video said bus 119 to the metro, which means two different public transits.
@@Lwize AE Express bus line
@@LorcTheBest AE Express is shut down until further notice, per their website. Could be due to the pandemic?
"single metro link between the airport and city center" -> it would be expensive and unprofitable AF, they could make it with tams but it will be still expensive and slow.
Barcelona 😍 I'm so happy to hear my city in one of your videos
I have a few ideas, some easier done than others.
I`ve only been to Prague once, but I really loved it, and want to come back as soon as possible.
1) More public available restrooms.
2) Ban Euronet ATMs, and only allow national controlled bank ATM services.
3) A Metro connection between Václav Havel Airport, and for instance I. P. Pavlova/Náměstí Míru. This would improve the connection drastically. Even though there is a bus connection from the Airport to the city centre of Prague, I do believe this would be great.
4) Honest Guide should do a live recording with questions from tourists each week, from mid-June to mid-August, maybe? ;)
Keep on the good work Janek & Honza!
I'm a architecture student this semester in Prague and funny enough, I thought about many of the exact same things as you! Make the city more bikeable perhaps too
Prague si too hilly to be more bikeable.
Love your channel. Los of love from South Africa.
Have you ever planned to make a video about Liberec city? It’s really interesting city with a lot of things, you can do. Near the Liberec, there is also tripoint of borders( Czech Republic, Poland and Germany). It’s so incredible that you can see these countries from “Izery” and “Lužické hory” mountains. This region is almost the same interesting as Prague.
Thanks for the video! One thing that always bothers me, when crossing the traffic light after Charles Bridge (going to the center) with a group, is that this traffic light is green for a whole 12 seconds...no way to cross all together, and the group gets split, has to somehow wait between all the other people. It's always a mess there!
traffic lights for pedestrians: Green -> allowed to enter, Red -> do not enter but if you are already there then dont stop and continue crossing to the other end.
I would add English announcements in the Prague trams in addition to the Czech announcements. I'm not sure if they've done that already, but when I was in Prague (a couple of years ago) a nice old lady helped me understand what they were saying, because I didn't understand them.
At the last station they always say please exit the bus. But that's all..
What would you do with an announcement of the stop for example "Pankrac" as "Pankrac" in English? Or should we come up with an English name for it? That would confuse you even more.
@@hanselvogis5142 "next stop pankrac" ;) when my family visited they got lost because the tram 9 to the center was somehow changed to another number on the way and went to another part of the city.. because they didn't understand the announcement
@@hanselvogis5142 just have the announcement say "Další zastávka 'Pankrac'. The next stop is 'Pankrac'."
It wasn't the names of the stops that confused me, but try to decipher what's part of the announcement and what is part of the name of the stop if you don't (fully) understand the language. It all sounded as 1 word.
That museum of Tourism in irish bar is already removed. I was there yesterday.. :)
This is good content to know the problem from pražák. It helps raise awareness more people even not live in Prague!!
One of the things that I really want to happen is for me to come to Prague and meet you two, much love👋🏾❤️
Always love these videos. Why isn't there a Janek for other European cities?? 🤔
You were able to buy Havel's Ring from the Havel's market, allowing you to carry twice the amount of tourist crap you bought.
AHhh your ideas are all so sound & logical. Wish you had more power in the city to be able to implement this stuff.
We had problems in Prague with figuring out the public transportation and never used it, while in Budapest or Vienna that's all we used as it was so easy and explanations were in English.
I had the opportunity to visit the Czech Republic right before COVID (great place). If I could change one thing, it would be to have a train station at or close to Prague Airport. I had to go to Brno, which requires a train right from Prague, but in order to get the train you have to take a bus to the main city station.
How is that an "easy" change? :D
@@WelsyCZ I never said it was "easy". After researching it further it seems their is work on this already www.railtech.com/infrastructure/2018/12/28/new-stage-of-prague-airport-rail-link-project/
@@dosman7560 The work is progressing so slowly, they decided to buy trolley buses. So it will happen in 20 to 30 years.
Great narration, music, screenplay. Dekuji
Love your videos even if I have never visited before
Personally for me I would change the metro to have a direct link from the airport to the city vice versa.
I remember going to Prague to study and being a solo traveler trying to navigate the transportation system at night was scary
About permits like that: it indeed takes a long time even for the cities themselves, in Kortrijk (Belgium) they have had plans to rebuild the station since 2010 with the city being a major part of it and they could only start construction in 2015 (They're well under way to completion of phase 2 by now so it's all good)
I still hope they don't tear down the station building, I like it. Platforms and underpasses do need a thorough refurbishment, though.
Yes, yes, YES! to pubic recycling bins. One of the things that has bugged me about public bins in Prague.
Honest guide's honest opinion✨
I miss Prague. Its just over a year since I last visited and it's my home from home
Prague is beautiful. Huge change: Signage!
(To many signs and can be confusing)
Hello from Ireland Janek :).
I love your videos. I have been to Prague so many times ( about 15 times I think) and will go there again when the pandemic is finally over .
There is nothing I would change about this amazingly beautiful city because , to me , it will always be perfect .
Ok, well, maybe I would try to put a stop to taxi drivers who overcharge ! Grrrrr ! I wouldn't like Prague to get the name of "Rip-Off City" .
May I ask if you learned your English in the USA ? You sound like an American :) . But that doesn't matter .
Keep on making the videos. Such a wonderful job you are doing .
Oh boy! What to change? Euh... Nothing... Well, I do agree with the lack of recycling bins but, the photograph in me is asking to not put the "modern" version of the bins in Prague. You will need to have more frequent garbage collection which is actually an issue for a lot of cities. Especially in parks.
Ok! Found one! The one thing that could be really useful for me is, some kind of indicator (yes, another sign lol!) of where the closest ticket vending machine for public transport are. My crew hotel (I'm a Canandian flight crew) is located near Nový Smíchov Shopping Centre and for some reason, I couldn't find a machine in this very busy area (and of course, Google Earth is, just now, showing me the Anděl metro station... Great! lol!).
Prague is perfect, love it, I don’t mind anything... wouldn’t change a thing. But you must definitely make those changes.
Love the Barcelona shout out!
City centre should have set prices on food alcohol on square. Imagine them having to charge same prices everywhere. Soo many tourists and locals would chill out there and competition from other cities. Only czech traditional items allowed around old town too.
Just come to Karlin, Zizkov or Vinohrady, which is extremely close to the city center :)
If you dont like the price or goods, then do not buy it (voting with wallet can be powerfull). Simple. Why would adults need the nanny state?
the businesses would have to close beacuse the rents there are ultra high
Take down all the crazy traffic signs that serve no purpose. That's the change I'd make.
Janek, I think Prague Castle area has been opened just a few days ago, hasnt it? At least the gardens and Jelení příkop
Only the upper part of the Jelení příkop
Great movie, as always 👌
I visited Prague in 1993 and 1994 and have since wanted to back but it just hasn't happened. Looking forward to going back there soon.
Hi, Janek. I love your videos. But i wanted to ask, why many videos are closed in this channel (cause some videos i will watch later and i see this - private video)?
Thanks a lot guys for the yet another great video ! What I would Zmêna ? Mmmm, not much but a few things indeed. Like for example in restaurants, many waiters/wairesses take away the first empty plate they see on the table, regardless if the rest of the guests have finished eating :-)
So you prefer to have a table flooded with dirty dishes? It's a cultural preference, I guess, but I like a bit more space if I'm done eating.
How cool would it be if you guys could really change these things!? The Honest Guide for mayor!
How long ago were the recycling bins removed? There used to be the big ones -- for paper, for glass -- in Wenceslas Square and in Uhelný trh.
You should run for mayor of Prague
I’d personally clean up the city center, and also plant some trees on the streets, they look very empty
Love your channel
I love these videos! I live in America and these videos make me want to visit and experience the culture of this amazing city. Also to check out schooling options for English speaking students. Anyone have any pointers?
you’re better off going to a different country, honestly. while the schools aren’t awful, western europe provides much better and it’s still far cheaper than what you’d find in the usa. if you know another language, especially german, even better.
Hey! You are taking one idea from Barcelona! (us) NIIIIICE!
Oh wait! You got 2 IDEAS from us! The stones shit just being dropped there doing nothing but creating empty spaces nobody uses should be also from us xD
I will take my future wife to Prague, you have made me fall in love with this city, and I've never even been to Europe
There are 2 things I would change right away if I could and they're super easy and cheap to adjust.
The first one is a pedestrian crossing on I. P. Pavlova (on Sokolska to be more precise). The green light there is only for 10s and sometimes from the late evening, even only for 5s. To not get hit by a car, you often need to enter the crossing on the red light. People who know the area just observe the parallel crossing - as soon as pedestrians there have the green light, you are safe to cross. It's especially important when you walk from the direction of Legerova - because if you're late on that crossing you really have to be careful about cars turning on a conditional right turn. Isn't that insane? I often see elders struggling there. Once, I also saw a person with a disability who was just a bit late on that crossing and had to wait for the next green light. It would be enough to just increase that 10s to 15s (especially that other crossing on I. P. Pavlova have the green light for like 20-40s).
The second thing is a closed area of Dětský ostrov. There is a part with a statue and a mini colonnade that you can access only if you pretend you're going to the boat and if you manage to avoid the security guy. Idk why this part is not accessible. But maybe here the reason is the safety of children playing on the island's playground.
I wish my city (Bali) have some people like janek and honza , that would be awsome