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A few hundred taxi drivers demonstrated on Tuesday morning in front of the Brussels Parliament to oppose the proposed temporary ordinance for Uber-related workers. They argue that social gains are at stake in the face of extreme liberalization of the […]
De Werkvennootschap, the organization that supports large and complex mobility projects in Flanders, will revise four junctions of the eastern part of the Brussels ring road. These junctions – Quatre Bras/Vierarmen, Leonard, Groenendael and Jezus-Eik/Notre-Dame-au-Bois – are known by motorists […]
On Thursday, the Brussels government approved a decree that should help Brussels companies make their company car fleets greener. This will simplify the rules for obtaining the premium and make it accessible to a more significant number of entrepreneurs. Specifically, […]
On Thursday, the Brussels Government reached an agreement on the reform of taxi services and passenger transport services in general, including mobility services offered by professional limousine transport with drivers (LVC), the license under which Uber drivers in Brussels work. […]
The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that drivers can no longer work with the Uber app. Concretely, the 2 000 Uber drivers will no longer be able to use the app as of Friday 18th, making the app […]
The French-Dutch micro-mobility operator Dott deployed its first electric bikes in the nineteen Brussels communes on Monday morning. By the end of the year, there will be 2 000 of them. “With more options, we hope to encourage people of […]
Volvo Car Gent has to stop its car production for another two days due to a parts shortage. This time, it concerns the battery modules needed in electric and hybrid vehicles. One of Flanders’ largest industrial employers, Volvo Car Gent, […]
The Belgian government has cleared a significant hurdle to make the public railway company NMBS/SNCB the sole operator for passenger rail transport for ten years by publishing its intention on the official European channel. This is what Mobility Minister Georges […]
Brussels Airlines presented a new brand identity, including a new logo, on Thursday. The latter immediately caused some ‘turbulence’, as the new identity and logo were certainly not to the liking of several hundred employees that wanted the money spent […]
This week, Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB will submit a building permit application for the future tram line 10 to Neder-Over-Heembeek. In February 2020, the route was already approved by the Brussels Region and the municipal authorities. The building permit […]
The speed of e-scooters is now limited to 10 km/hour in 700 areas of Paris, including around the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower. This is what the three operators present in Paris reported on Monday. These areas are concentrated around […]
On Friday, the Flemish government gave the go-ahead for Mobilidata, a project that uses data to make traffic smoother, more sustainable, and safer. A consortium led by Be-Mobile, a Belgian company specializing in distributing traffic information, is steering the project. […]
Tesla chief Elon Musk has sold Tesla shares worth about 7 billion dollars, according to documents released by Musk on Wednesday and the American market regulator SEC on Friday. He did so after asking his 62 million followers on Twitter […]
Brussels does have the power to introduce a city toll and kilometer tax in January 2022 without discriminating against the other regions. This is evident from the opinion on the matter that the Council of State made public on Friday. […]
Users on Twitter have voted in favor of Elon Musk selling 10% of his shares of Tesla. The company’s top executive asked his more than 62 million followers on the platform through a poll whether he should get rid of […]
From 2023, there will be an obligation to renovate for those who buy a home that wastes energy. For agriculture and industry, the bar is set 10% higher than initially anticipated. These are some of the notable measures in the […]
Brussels Airlines has had an excellent third quarter, thanks to the strong demand for vacation flights. As a result, the adjusted operating profit (EBIT) from July to September was 1 million euros, compared to a loss of 51 million euros […]
Between 2021 and 2025, the Walloon Transport Operator (OTW), the parent company that oversees the TEC public transport service, will invest over 1,1 billion euros in Walloon public transport. A large part of the budget, 400 million euro, is planned […]
The Belgian Petroleum Federation is changing its name to Energia. It announced this in a press release on Thursday evening. The new name is intended to express the ambition and role of the sector in the energy transition. “To help […]
Road safety institute Vias backs the bill proposed by Vooruit MP Joris Vandenbroucke to ban electric scooters for children under 16, as is the case in the Netherlands, among others. The Belgian traffic institute also pleads for additional adjustments to […]
With the fuel prices reaching record highs, Touring wants the Belgian government to bring costs down. Specifically, the mobility organization and roadside assistance service is asking for reintroducing the so-called ratchet system to reduce excise duties when diesel and gasoline […]
The low-emission zone (LEZ) is not missing its effect in Brussels. Since June 2018, the disappearance of the oldest diesel vehicles has reduced emissions of black carbon, a measure of soot concentration, by more than a third. The 2020 monitoring […]
French-Belgian high-speed train company Thalys commissioned its first renovated carriages at Brussels-Midi station on Tuesday. Spaces inside the train are reconfigured, increasing capacity by 28 seats without compromising on comfort. The ecological impact of the renewed trains has also been […]
Saudi Arabia’s ambition is to be carbon neutral by 2060. The world’s largest oil exporter pledged this on Saturday during a Saudi Green Initiative forum in the capital Riyadh, just a few days before the start of COP26 in Glasgow. […]
Renault will produce some 500 000 fewer vehicles than planned in 2021 due to a lack of semi-conductors. In the third quarter, 170 000 cars of Renault, Dacia, Lada, and Alpine could not be produced. Renault was notably affected in […]
Paris’ Mayor and presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo has presented on Thursday the 2021-2026 bicycle plan. With the construction of 130 km of new bicycle lanes, 100 000 secure parking spaces, and a limited traffic zone in the center of Paris, […]
On seven highway sections, five in Wallonia and two in Flanders, average speed check controls will be active permanently – 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Someone driving 129 kph or more will always be fined. It is […]
On Wednesday afternoon, the Parliamentary Finance Committee approved the bill to speed up the greening of the company car fleet. The company car is still prevalent in Belgium, with nearly a quarter (23%) of all employees in Belgium benefiting from […]
The Flemish government is going to invest 106,3 million euros in five large hydrogen projects. Flemish Minister for Innovation and Economy, Hilde Crevits (CD&V), announced this on Monday. The projects include constructing hydrogen plants to produce sustainable hydrogen, using hydrogen […]
Hybrid offshore wind projects could also help Belgium to become climate neutral by 2050. That’s the conclusion of a paper of the Planning Bureau, a Belgian independent public agency that makes studies on economic, social, and environmental policy issues. In […]
The council of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg (EMS) has voted to set up a low-emission zone (LEZ) with an expected timetable for the gradual banning of the most polluting vehicles for the Alsatian capital and the 32 surrounding communes. The […]
As of 1 July 2022, diesel cars will fail the Brussels technical inspection if their exhaust gases exceed 1 million particles per cm3. This threshold appears in the draft decree allowing the integration of the particle counter (‘PN meter’) in […]
Alitalia, the flagship of Italian air transport, will end its 74-year history. On Thursday, it made its last flight, crippled by long-standing financial problems. Today, the new airline Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA) will take off with the help of the […]
Nerves are tight at German carmaker Volkswagen following media reports of scenarios involving up to 30 000 job cuts. Those plans would have been discussed at a supervisory Board meeting on 24 September by Volkswagen’s boss Herbert Diess. However, highly […]
At the budget conclave finalized on Tuesday morning, the Belgian government decided to invest an additional 250 million euros in NMBS/SNCB. This makes the Belgian railways one of the big winners in the De Croo government’s plan to invest an […]
