An anti-noise wall is being built in Židlochovice. It is supposed to reduce the noise from the train sets
/PHOTO/ The noise caused by RegioPanter trainsets staying overnight in the station bothers the residents of Židlochovice in Brno. The situation there is to be improved by the new anti-noise wall. “It is definitely needed for people who live in new buildings around the station. There is noise there at night and some children cannot sleep peacefully,” Bohumila Křenová told the reporter on the spot.
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A new anti-noise wall is being built at the railway station in Židlochovice.
| Photo: Deník/Barbora Vozková
Construction of the wall began at the end of June. The railway administration originally anticipated the start of work at the turn of April and May, but it was finally postponed. “Workers are currently drilling piles and concrete them. The work will last four months, the wall should be finished by October 30,” Railway Administration spokeswoman Nela Friebová told Deník Rovnost. The costs are over seventeen million crowns.
The wall will reach a height of six meters above the track and will measure 183 meters in length.
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After the modernization and electrification of the line from Hrušovan u Brno to Židlochovice, trains began to enter the city again after many years in 2019, but the section is still only in trial operation. The additional measurement showed that the noise limits were exceeded, in the most exposed place by almost ten decibels. Standard noise barriers proved to be insufficient. The work of air conditioning and related technical equipment on the roofs of the cars of the mentioned train sets is to blame.
According to railway workers, the elimination of noise by means of new noise barriers is not an optimal solution. They would welcome a system solution in the future. “For the time being, each such issue is dealt with individually, these are specific cases given local conditions,” said Friebová.
MICHAL GRABAL
BARBORA VOZKOVÁ