January 20, 2020
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Toyota invests in flying taxi
Luc Joris Posted On January 17, 2020


Car manufacturer Toyota invests 394 million dollars in Joby Aviation, an American start-up that wants to make flying taxis. “Aviation is a long-term goal for Toyota,” says CEO Akio Toyoda in a press release taken over by De Morgen. “With […]


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‘Grid in Belgian capital ready for electric car’
Luc Joris Posted On January 16, 2020


An electric car has a smaller ecological footprint than a car with an internal combustion engine. However, the critical question is whether there will be enough electricity in the future to charge these cars. For example, is the Brussels electricity […]


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More passengers and more satisfaction at NMBS/SNCB
Luc Joris Posted On January 16, 2020


Belgian railway, NMBS/SNCB, transported more than 253 million domestic rail passengers in 2019. That is 9 million more than a year earlier or an increase of 3,9%, and almost twice as many as twenty years ago. “The trains during the […]


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Danish GreenMobility to launch electric car-sharing in Antwerp
Luc Joris Posted On January 14, 2020


The Danish company GreenMobility, which operates electric car-sharing services in Copenhagen and Aarhus, becomes active in Antwerp in April. Brussels and Ghent would follow. The company will set up its services in Antwerp in a joint venture with local partner […]


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Second-hand gasoline cars have become 22% more expensive
Luc Joris Posted On January 13, 2020


For most private users, a diesel car is no longer economically interesting. This is the conclusion of the mobility association, VAB, based on a new budget test. As a result of this ‘diesel anxiety’, second-hand gasoline cars have become 22% […]


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Schaerbeek joins Parking.Brussels for modern parking policy
Luc Joris Posted On January 10, 2020


Since January 1st, 2020, the parking management of the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek has been in the hands of the regional parking agency parking.brussels. The new and modern parking policy and the resulting measures were presented on Thursday by Schaerbeek’s […]


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Maps for estimating bicycle travel times in Brussels
Luc Joris Posted On January 9, 2020


Bicycle courier Baptistine has created several maps of Brussels that show the travel time between various key locations. Handy for those who want to estimate the time it takes to travel between two points by bike in Brussels. For the […]


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More private kilometers are driven with company cars
Luc Joris Posted On January 9, 2020


Never before have so many new company cars been registered in Belgium as in 2019. Salary cars – company cars that can also be used outside working hours – make up 8% of the fleet, but account for 16% of […]


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Brussels 30 kph zone ‘baleful for commercial speed of Stib/Mivb’
Luc Joris Posted On January 7, 2020


From 2021, the entire Brussels region will become a 30 kph zone where the maximum speed of 30 km/hour will become the norm. However, there will also be exceptions to this rule, for example, on dedicated lanes on which buses […]


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Belgium fails to meet targets in road fatalities
Luc Joris Posted On January 6, 2020


Belgium fails to reduce the number of road deaths on its roads. In 2018, 604 people were killed at a national level, in Flanders there were 310. This resulted in 52 road deaths for every million inhabitants in Belgium. As […]


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Booming business: driving and flying on used deep-frying fat
Luc Joris Posted On January 3, 2020


The East Flemish family company, Quatra, collects 65.000 tons of used deep-frying oil annually, which is used as fuel for cars and will soon also be used for airplanes. “In ten years’ time, we have become the biggest in Europe.” […]


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Shell: ‘Even energy transition requires molecules’
Luc Joris Posted On January 2, 2020


One hundred thirty years after it’s founding, the Dutch-British multinational Shell, one of the world’s six largest state-independent oil companies, aims to become the world’s largest electricity company. Head of new energies, Maarten Wetselaar, says so in an interview with […]


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Empty EU cars commuting between Brussels and Strasbourg
Luc Joris Posted On December 31, 2019


A large proportion of the 105 cars driven from Brussels to Strasbourg for the monthly plenary session of the European Parliament make this journey without passengers. Nico Semsrott, a German cabaret artist elected in May as an MEP on behalf […]


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‘Halving traffic fatalities by 2020 next to impossible’
Luc Joris Posted On December 27, 2019


The Flemish Government has committed itself to reduce the number of road deaths to 200 by 2020. A miracle will have to be done to achieve this target. Critics say it is next to impossible. In the first nine months […]


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Police judge pleads for harsher penalties for candidate drivers
Luc Joris Posted On December 24, 2019


Police judge Peter D’Hondt believes that candidate drivers deserve more severe penalties for the slightest offense. “Now, all I can do is fine them.” He makes his statement after a 20-year-old care provider was killed in a traffic accident in […]


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Belgium saw fewer traffic jams this year
Luc Joris Posted On December 23, 2019


Although the past year has brought a lot of rain, the number of hours of traffic jams on the Belgian road network has decreased compared to 2018. The traffic information service Be-Mobile’s traffic jam barometer shows this. We spent fewer […]


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Vias wants to privatize part of speed controls
Luc Joris Posted On December 23, 2019


Traffic institute Vias wants to increase the chances of catching drunken drivers by privatizing speed checks. “This way more policemen have their hands free to carry out alcohol checks,” Vias says. According to a recent figure from Vias, more and […]


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Oosterweel: ‘Next autumn excavators at work on the right bank’
Luc Joris Posted On December 20, 2019


The independent environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the department of the Flemish Environment Department has approved the EIA project for the Oosterweel connection on the right bank of the river Scheldt. The environmental permit for the Oosterweel connection can now […]


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Belgian climate plan counts on European clemency
Luc Joris Posted On December 19, 2019


Federal Minister for Energy, Marie Christine Marghem (MR), was pleased with the agreement she reached on Wednesday with the regional climate ministers on the objectives and measures in the National Energy and Climate Plan. After approval in the Consultative Committee, […]


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Council of State reverses Antwerp’s quad ban
Luc Joris Posted On December 19, 2019


The Council of State annulled the additional traffic regulation of the city of Antwerp to impose a ban on the use of quads. The prohibition dates from 2012. The annulment comes after a complaint of three citizens. Rules too rigid […]


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Fuel prices to increase in Luxembourg and Germany in 2020
Luc Joris Posted On December 17, 2019


From next year on it will be less advantageous to refuel in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Gasoline will be 1 to 3 cents more expensive per liter, diesel 3 to 5 cents, the government has announced. With this price […]


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Civic cooperative ‘Noordlicht’ invests in renewable energy
Luc Joris Posted On December 16, 2019


Sixteen citizens’ cooperatives on energy are already active in Flanders, but the northern edge around Brussels remained a blind spot. Residents of thirteen municipalities on the outskirts of Brussels are now joining forces to set up the ‘Noordlicht’ civic cooperative. […]


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Traxio asks governments to harmonize or abolish LEZ-zones
Luc Joris Posted On December 13, 2019


Traxio, the federation of the Belgian automobile sector and related sectors, asks the Belgian, regional and federal ministers to review, or at least harmonize the various low-emission zones (LEZ).  According to Traxio spokesperson Pieter Van Bastelaere, a possible abolition should […]


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Province of Antwerp builds 3 new cycle lanes
Luc Joris Posted On December 12, 2019


The province of Antwerp has allocated 117 million euros for improving the cycle paths and the construction of three new fast cycle paths. With the support of Flanders (via the cycling funds), every euro that the province spends is doubled. […]


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TUI to collaborate with archenemy Brussels Airlines
Luc Joris Posted On December 12, 2019


Competitors TUI and Brussels Airlines will be working more closely together from Christmas onward. Both companies announced this on Wednesday. The fact that the two competitors are joining forces is partly due to the fall of Thomas Cook. From Christmas, […]


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Bpost sells CityDepot
Luc Joris Posted On December 10, 2019


Belgian public post company, Bpost, sells distribution company CityDepot to BD myShopi, known as a distributor of advertising leaflets. The companies involved announced this on Monday. Bpost is divesting the company it acquired in 2015, due to its strategy of […]


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De Lijn places record order with bus builder VDL
Luc Joris Posted On December 10, 2019


De Lijn, orders 200 ‘green buses’ from bus builder VDL in Roeselare. The order involves an investment of 92 million euros. Both in terms of the number of buses and the price is a record order, according to the Flemish […]


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In Uber or taxi, women are still insecure
Luc Joris Posted On December 9, 2019


Under the #UberCestOver hashtag, created in response to the testimony of a Strasbourg student, many women in France and Belgium report harassment, sexual assault, and even rape by Uber drivers. The platform just made its mea culpa, but inappropriate attitudes […]


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En Uber ou en taxi, les femmes toujours en insécurité
Luc Joris Posted On December 9, 2019


Le Soir* – 07 Dec. 2019 Pagina 2 Sous le hashtag #UberCestOver, de nombreuses femmes témoignent de harcèlement, d’agressions sexuelles voire de viols par des chauffeurs Uber. La plateforme vient de faire son mea culpa. Mais les attitudes inappropriées voire […]


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Oil companies make climate targets unattainable
Luc Joris Posted On December 6, 2019


If oil and gas companies continue with their planned investments, the climate targets set by the world in Paris will be completely unattainable. This is the conclusion drawn by 17 organizations from various countries, including Greenpeace, in a report that […]


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‘Klimaatdoelen nu al onhaalbaar’
Luc Joris Posted On December 6, 2019


De Morgen – 06 Dec. 2019 Pagina 17 De geplande investeringen van de fossiele sector maken het onmogelijk de klimaatdoelen van Parijs nog te halen. Dat concluderen 17 internationale milieuorganisaties. De komende vijf jaar pompen oliebedrijven als Shell, BP en […]


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‘Oliebedrijven maken klimaatdoelen onhaalbaar’
Luc Joris Posted On December 6, 2019


ANP – 05 Dec. 2019 MADRID (ANP) – Als olie- en gasbedrijven hun geplande investeringen doorzetten, worden de klimaatdoelen die de wereld in Parijs heeft vastgesteld volstrekt onhaalbaar. Die conclusie trekken 17 organisaties uit diverse landen, waaronder Milieudefensie en Greenpeace, […]


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Global CO2 emissions continue to rise
Luc Joris Posted On December 5, 2019


Global emissions of fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) continue to rise inexorably and are expected to reach a new record high in 2019. At the same time, the growth of these emissions, which are mainly responsible for climate change, has slowed […]


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Les émissions de CO2 ont progressé un peu moins vite en 2019
Luc Joris Posted On December 5, 2019


Le Monde – 05 Dec. 2019 Pagina 14 Il y a une mauvaise et une bonne nouvelle dans le bilan annuel du Global Carbon Project, un consortium de 76 scientifiques issus de 58 laboratoires internationaux, publié mercredi 4 décembre. La […]


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Dutchman rides 72% more kilometers on e-bike
Luc Joris Posted On December 3, 2019


The Dutch are increasingly using electric bicycles. In 2013, a total of 1,5 billion kilometers were driven on an e-bike; in 2017, it was 2,2 billion kilometers. In those four years, the number of e-bike journeys increased by 72%. This […]


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