Brno has submitted a new EIA documentation for the terminal in Lískovec after four years

Brno – After four years, Brno has submitted the updated documentation for environmental impact assessment for the construction of a transfer terminal in Starý Lískovec. Although the modernization of the railway line and the new train stop have been completed since 2021 and the plan has been known for about ten years, the city now expects that construction will not begin until after 2028. This is stated in the document on the EIA Information Portal.

Brno submitted the documentation in 2022 but then withdrew the request for assessment due to changes in the project. Three years ago, it announced that it had approved a land exchange. However, the city has continued to reference complex property relations in the area. Originally, it was considered that the trolleybus line, which is to be extended from the current terminus Osová to the terminal, would run along U Leskavy Street. New developments emerged in this area around 2010; however, the road does not meet the needs of trolleybus transport and, according to the EIA document, it is still not completed and still does not belong to the city, but to legal entities.

Therefore, for several years the city has been planning to create a new road to the east of this development by extending Osová all the way to the terminal, which will have the necessary parameters including a one-sided path for cyclists and pedestrians.

Against the four-year-old documentation, the intersection of Osová Street and Eliška Přemyslovna is newly conceived as a roundabout, with Osová Street being shifted a few meters east from the Kosmonautů stop. There will remain a turn from Eliška Přemyslovna into U Leskavy Street. The area of the terminal is to be smaller than previously anticipated four years ago, allowing for more parking spaces. Instead of 27, there will be 60 spaces in the terminal, plus an additional 24 spaces on the connecting road. It is estimated that on weekdays, 160 trolleybus connections and 70 bus connections will arrive at the terminal.

Today, not all passenger trains stop in Starý Lískovec; there is only a provisional sidewalk leading to the stop from Šoustalova Street. People previously made a temporary bridge over the narrow channel of Leskava by themselves. It is assumed that after the terminal is put into operation, between 3,500 and 4,000 people daily could transfer between the train and public transport, who arrive from the southwestern part of Brno to the university campus in Bohunice, where thousands of other people work in the vicinity. Currently, they must either take a train to the main station and then travel about 15 minutes by tram or use suburban buses that usually get delayed for several minutes on the overcrowded D1 highway during the morning rush hour.