The study of the modernization of the railway hub in Brno will be ready on Tuesday

Brno - The long-awaited feasibility study for the modernization of the Brno railway junction is expected to be completed next week on Tuesday, according to current information. After Sudop Brno hands over the study to the Railway Infrastructure Administration (SŽDC), all the requirements will be checked, and any deficiencies will be addressed. According to SŽDC spokesperson Kateřina Šubová, this will take two to three weeks, and after that, it will be possible to officially declare it complete. However, the study will not reveal whether to modernize the junction with a station in the center or with a relocated station; it will only show the pros and cons of the options, which it analyzes very thoroughly.

The completion date has been postponed several times because additional partial studies were being added. The railway study has thus become a comprehensive document that addresses, for example, the integration of public transport and regional bus connections, savings or extensions of transfer times. SŽDC expects to present it in the first half of November.

The study has been in preparation since 2015. Initially, it was expected that it could be completed last autumn, before the regional elections, during which a referendum on the future location of the station was also held. The overwhelming majority of voters want to keep the station in the center, but not enough turned out for the result to be binding.

The relocation of the station has been discussed in Brno for several decades, and currently, there are two options on the table. The option to keep the station in the center involves moving it approximately 300 meters towards Malá Amerika, with the current public transportation system effectively remaining intact. The relocated station would be situated on the site of the current lower station, which is about a kilometer south of the current one and would require significant changes in public transport as well as the construction of new tram and trolleybus lines. Both station options account for the future integration of high-speed rail lines.

SŽDC anticipates that the reconstruction will be pushed to a timeline such that it will no longer be possible to finance it with European funds from the current programming period.