The Brno metropolitan area received over five billion crowns from European Union subsidies in the ending programming period. The support fell on more than 120 projects. The area includes Brno and its surroundings. In six years, cycle paths, transfer terminals or places in kindergartens have been created. This was stated ton Wednesday in a press release from the mayor’s deputy Tomáš Koláčný (Pirates). Now the Brno metropolitan area is entering the second programming period.
According to Brno, the ending period was important for the whole area, because for the first time the instrument of integrated territorial investments was used. “Thanks to metropolitan cooperation, interesting and necessary projects are being created in the Brno metropolitan area. Examples are networks of cycle paths in Šlapanice, transfer terminals in Brno and facilities or support for specialized classrooms in education. I am very pleased that in the coming years we can municipalities to establish and implement other important projects, “said Koláčný.
Over 30 kilometers of cycle paths, three transfer terminals, including the modernization of Zvonařka in Brno, more than four kilometers of new tram and trolleybus lines, as well as vocational classrooms for primary and secondary schools and over 10,500 places in kindergartens, were created.
The region’s steering committee dealt with new projects to which the European Union could contribute grants of around 150 million. It is, for example, a children’s hospice in Brno called the House for Julia, the Skořepka parking house or a footbridge for pedestrians and cyclists across the river in Bílovice nad Svitavou.
Source: CTK
