The study on the reconstruction of the railway hub in Brno will be until autumn

Brno - The completion of the feasibility study, which assesses the advantages and disadvantages of the options for the reconstruction of the Brno railway junction, will not be finished until the fall. The deadline keeps getting pushed back, with the latest mention being the end of May. The reason is the request from the Feasibility Study Committee, which wants to develop the schedules for connecting bus routes at selected railway junctions, calculate time savings or delays, and evaluate them economically, said Kateřina Šubová, spokesperson for the Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC), to ČTK.

The exact timing of the processing will only be known once the sixth addendum to the contract is finalized, in which the requirements for supplementing the study conducted by Sudop Brno will be specified. When the study was commissioned, it was assumed that it could be completed last autumn, so that the results could be reported before the referendum on the location of the station. Citizens clearly expressed their support for keeping the station in the center in the referendum; however, not enough people participated for the result to be binding.

The study itself will not decide on the location of the station; it will only serve as a basis for the final decision. Before that, the Ministry of Transport, the South Moravian Region, Brno, and other institutions will provide their opinions.

The options include the reconstruction of the junction with a station slightly shifted from the current state and a station in a relocated position at the site of the current freight Lower Station. The SŽDC expects that the reconstruction will be pushed back to a point where it will no longer be possible to finance it with European funds from the current programming period.