If the Czech Highway Authority (RSD) manages to get the EIA for a 5 kilometer section of new motorway south of Brno by next year, construction has a realistic chance of being completed by 2035. The new road would allow drivers driving from Pohorelice to Olomouc to get onto the D1 highway using the D2 interchange. Growing traffic levels is causing increasing delays between the D52 and D2 interchanges. It’s also made it necessary to plan for the expansion of the D2 from to six lanes from Chrlice, where the new tangent from the D52 will connect to the D2. Some villages along the planned route are against the construction, claiming that noise and pollution is already bad enough. But the mayor of Modrice says drivers are already clogging his town’s local roads to avoid traffic jams on the D52. What’s clear, however, is that the planning process for new infrastructure is so inefficient in the Czech Republic that a construction permit is unlikely to be secured before 2027 and that drivers will be lucky if construction begins before 2030.
