The model of the Brno train station for two million is unfinished

BRNO - The model of the future main train station in Brno, for which city councilors allocated two million crowns from the city budget against the displeasure of the residents, is confusing and unfinished. According to today's Brno edition of Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD), visitors are puzzled by the exhibited model in Vaňkovka, which represents the surrounding area at a scale of 1:600. The most expensive components of the model - models of trams and trains that were supposed to move - are not functional. Parts of the model are peeling off and shifting in the matting.
"I miss reference points here. For example, the new boulevard is not marked at all. I am guessing how it will look, but it may not be true," said Lidmila Hložková to the newspaper. She lives nearby and wanted to infer how the southern center would appear from the model.
The firm ArchDesign, which created the model, according to Deputy Mayor Miroslav Hošek, was supposed to specially light key places like the M-palace, but the authors did not manage these enhancements in time. "There are indeed very few reference points, which is why they placed several paper triangular prisms with labels on the model," Hošek said.
Some Brno residents do not like the model's price of two million crowns. "That's wasted money. Computer graphics would have sufficed," Dušan Stehlík told the newspaper. Jiří Brým shared the same opinion.
According to architect Radoslav Novotný, who participated in the construction of the model, it will be operational only after the exhibition in Vaňkovka ends. "The movement of trams and trains is very complicated and has not been tested thoroughly," he stated, adding that if, for example, a train got stuck while moving, there was a risk that the model could catch fire. "Tuning everything is very complicated. It is a prototype," he defended his work.

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