Locals outraged by news plans for Déli Railway Station reconstruction

What happens to the Déli Railway Station has been a topic of interest for years: will it become a green zone, or is it perhaps partially saveable and will finally be utilized? The previous plan in 2018 was to extend the huge campus development project of the University of Physical Education to the railway area parallel to Mészáros Street, but that plan seemed to have changed.

Residents of the area were understandably very pleased with everything, a sports center and student town dotted with green spaces is a much more attractive sight and function than the slowly fading railway factory area. But the years have passed, and despite the tremendeous efforts, the campus construction of TE seemed no different until

this spring, a whole new plan came into the picture: instead of a leisure center, there will be a bus station in place of the rails.

But the locals of District 1 are not happy. A petition and a leaflet have been launched against the planned bus station. Those involved are affraid that noise and air pollution, falling real estate prices are in their near future, while the mayor said that the facility would only have a positive effect on their lives.

Back in 2016, the government decided to have a sports and leisure center in the plant area in question. It was made a grandiose investment that completely transformed today’s outlook. The total design area was 6 acres, of which nearly 13,000 square feet would have been an apartment building with a sizeable underground garage, an ice rink, a golf driving range, tennis courts, a running track, a children’s ski slope, and a climbing center.

Residents of the area were enthusiastic about the development, they expected that the TE would green the area, raise house prices and connect with overpasses in the I. and XII. district side.

Then came the cold shower, when it was announced this spring through communications from the District I municipality that something completely different was being made.