This started court proceedings that lasted until November 2001, and the construction of the bypass including the tunnel under the hill Valík began after the disputes concluded.

The last remaining 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long section around Plzeň, including the Valík tunnel opened on 6 October 2006,[1][2] and is controlled by a Reliance SCADA system.

[3] This was the last part of the motorway to be constructed as the rest from Plzeň to the Rozvadov-Waidhaus border crossing was already in use since 1997.

The section between Prague and Beroun is planned to be widened to three lanes in each direction.

[5] Content in this edit is translated from the existing Czech Wikipedia article at cs:Dálnice D5; see its history for attribution.