At the end of May 2019, Prague City Council approved the construction of the metro D line and charged the Prague Public Transit Company with its construction. This began in Pankrác at the end of June of the same year with the start of geological exploration and the excavation of the first shafts and galleries. The new line will run in the north-south direction partly parallel to the existing C line. The length of the line will be 10.6 km, and will feature nine regular stations and one transfer station at Pankrác. After the completion of the geological surveys, the excavation of the Pankrác-Olbrachtova section will begin in July this year. Two years later, construction will continue in the Olbrachtova-Nové Dvory section, including tunneling from the Písnice Depot site. If property ownership issues in the area of Libuše and Písnice are resolved, the Pankrác-Písnice Depot section will be put into operation in December 2027. The entire metro D line, including the náměstí Míru-Pankrác section, is anticipated to be operational by the end of 2029.

After criticism of the design of the new D line stations in previous years, a new architectural competition was considered. However, the resulting possible delays in implementation meant that this procedure was abandoned and instead a "libretto" for the artistic form of the station elements and spaces was created in cooperation with Metroprojekt and architect David Vávra. This libretto formed the basis for the commissioning of an artistic competition for the design of the first two stations - Pankrác and Olbrachtova - which was won by the designs of artists Jakub Nepraš (for the Pankrác station) and Vladimír Kokolay (Olbrachtova station).