The bus terminal in Jaroměř is complete, operations will begin in the summer

Jaroměř - The bus terminal in Jaroměř in the Náchod region, located near the train station, has been completed at a cost of nearly 70 million crowns. Passengers and line buses will start using the terminal from July. This was stated today by the mayor of the twelve-thousand-strong town, Josef Horáček (VPM), to ČTK. Construction work on the neglected area in front of the train station began last spring.

"This Friday, the construction will be handed over. The acceptance inspection should take place by mid-June, followed by a trial operation. We expect to launch terminal operations on July 1," Horáček told ČTK today.

The area in front of the main train station has five covered bus stops plus one additional one, a parking lot for about 90 cars, a bike tower for more than a hundred bicycles, and a covered pedestrian crossing to the train station building. It also includes an information board with not only bus departures and arrivals but also trains.

"Jaroměř has, for the first time in its history, an adequate transport terminal. The vast majority of line buses, around 220 services, plan to serve the terminal. Only 30 to 40 express long-distance services will continue to serve the single stop at Na Špici," Horáček told ČTK.

By June, the Hradec Králové Region is expected to repair a short section of Nádražní Street, which separates the terminal from the train station building. "That will complete everything the city can influence," Horáček told ČTK.

The completion of modifications in the area is expected next year when the renovation of the train station building and the parking lot in front of the former station restaurant should be completed.

Since the beginning of 2018, the Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC) has been repairing the railway line in Jaroměř. The extensive reconstruction of the railway junction in Jaroměř is expected to cost more than 900 million crowns. The renovation of the station building is also planned. The train station in Jaroměř was impassable for several months last year, and railways addressed the disruption with replacement bus transport.

Jaroměř is an important regional transport hub, with about 250 line buses stopping in both directions daily. The terminal will facilitate connections between services, allowing passengers to conveniently transfer from trains to buses and vice versa.