Representatives for Brno 2006 want to preserve the train station in the center.

Brno - Representatives from the Brno 2006 association support the preservation of the main Brno train station in the city center. They were the second group to express their opinion on an independent analysis of two versions of the railway hub reconstruction; on Monday, the Greens decided to support the version in the city center. The project for a station moved further from the city center will worsen the functional connections in public transport, impose unnecessary operating costs on the city, and does not represent any improvement in terms of city development, said Brno councilor Jiří Zlatuška to ČTK today.
    "Brno 2006 demands, based on the analysis results, public preferences, and respected figures in architecture and urbanism, to halt work on the project for a relocated station and to promptly work on the implementation of the attached version," said Zlatuška.
    The analysis was supposed to evaluate, according to the same criteria, both the previous city council's proposal to move the station 800 meters south of the center, and the proposal from the civic association 'Station in the Center' for its reconstruction in its current location in the city center. Representatives of Brno's political parties had earlier agreed that the expert analysis of both proposals would be just one of three pillars for the final decision. The second pillar will be a list of risks that both variants may cause in practice. The third pillar will be the public's attitude toward both variants, which politicians want to determine through public opinion research.
    The project for the reconstruction of the Brno railway hub, which includes the construction of a new station in the southern part of Brno almost a kilometer from its current station, was promoted by the previous Brno coalition of ODS and KDU-ČSL. In addition to the Civic Democrats, it is also supported by opposition Communists and the People's Party, who, after the elections, joined the new Brno coalition alongside opponents of the so-called relocation of the station - Social Democrats, Greens, and independents from the Brno 2006 grouping. The previous Brno coalition supported the project despite the fact that a majority of participants in the referendum expressed their opposition to it.