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February 6th, 2008 issue

Olympic bid

I would recommend that Prague does not bid for the Olympic Games to be held there (“Olympic dream pushes on,” Sports, Jan. 16–22). In the short term, it may bring trade and foreign currency to the city, but in the long run it would be a burden on the whole country.
The expenditure involved to build new facilities and upgrading existing ones, the cost of security arrangements and the whole infrastructure necessary to run them will outweigh the financial and trade benefits of the games.
As a Czech living in England, I would not like to see my old country and city struggling with an unnecessary debt.
Karel Diblicek
St. Mary on the Marsh, United Kingdom
Excellent opinion piece about the Olympics (“An Olympic boondoggle,” Opinion, Jan. 23–29). Czech bureaucracy is entirely incompetent and corrupt. Please, Czech taxpayers, let us not feed the monster.
Jan Novák
Prague
Labor shortage
What I feel about these “shortage of labor” issues hinges on the lengthy and time-consuming procedures for obtaining a long-term visa from the embassy (“State failing to draw skilled labor,” Business, Jan. 16–22.)
Even after obtaining proper work permits and relevant documents and submitting them in the home country embassy, it takes more than 180 days for the embassy to issue visas.
Visas are still not guaranteed, and people have to wait almost six months in total to receive long-term work visas. If this procedure were to be sped up, I am sure there would be more skilled and nonskilled people wanting to go to the Czech Republic to work.
Vicky Kapoor
New Delhi, India
Metro scofflaws
The biggest reason people ride without tickets is the lack of inspection (“City metro may revive turnstiles,” News, Jan. 23–29). Being inspected once a month and paying the fine is even cheaper than purchasing a monthly pass. The fines should be increased, as well as the number of inspectors, and they should make the checks more frequent at other stations rather than concentrate just on Můstek and Muzeum.
Caner Cengiz
Istanbul
Property crash?
It looks as though Rocco Forte hotel officials managed to get everything finished just as the market has begun to collapse (“Rocco Forte heading to Prague,” Real Estate, Jan. 16–22). There are huge numbers of new hotels in that area, and most of them will be bust within a couple of years.

Margot Winston

Prague


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