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In Antwerp, city distributor CityDepot and bicycle courier Cargo Velo had some 3 000 delivery trips made by cargo bikes, which delivery vans would have normally made. The trips were made during the first year of their collaboration. Both consider […]
Federal Minister for Mobility Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo) wants Belgium’s national railway company NMBS/SNCB to introduce a special train pass for teleworkers by January 2022. “People no longer work in the office every day and, therefore, expect flexible train formulas,” he […]
Next Sunday, the car is taboo, and pedestrians and cyclists rule the Belgian roads. Car-Free Sunday, which traditionally is part of Mobility Week, is the opportunity to let people get to know sustainable solutions, says organizer Mobiel 21. Remarkable: in […]
Energy supplier Brusol, an initiative of solar panel company EnergyVision, aims to install a thousand semi-public charging stations in the Brussels region in the coming months. The charging stations will be rolled out according to the same formula that Brusol […]
From 16 to 22 September, Belgium will host Mobility Week, organized for the 25th time this year. In Brussels, Flanders, and Wallonia, various initiatives and numerous actions will be organized to put sustainable mobility in the spotlight. In Brussels, for […]
The number of passengers on the trains of the Belgian railway company NMBS/SNCB and the subways of the Brussels transport company MIVB/STIB was at the beginning of September at the highest level since the start of the corona crisis about […]
The Flemish government had signed a contract with the private German-American company ViaVan to operate the Flemish mobility center. This center, a kind of umbrella taxi center or combi-mobility center for the whole of Flanders in the context of basic […]
Flemish Minister of Home Affairs, Bart Somers (Open Vld), wants to encourage Flemish cities and municipalities to focus more on electric shared mobility. That is one of the conclusions of a study day together with, among others, the Association of […]
The Flemish government has received 220 proposals following a project call for semi-public charging stations in the private domain. These represent about 6 000 normal charging points, 90 rapid chargers, and 270 ultra-rapid chargers. This was announced by the Minister […]
Only 4% of Belgian employees currently receive a mobility budget from their employer. These are the results of a survey held by HR service provider Securex among more than 1 500 employees in May. A quarter of the employees who […]
Brussels Minister of Mobility Elke Van den Brandt (Groen) will fight bicycle theft in the capital with a new action plan. Secure bicycle racks, more officers on bicycles, and ‘bait bikes’ are part of the plan and should help triple […]
More and more Belgian companies are offering green mobility options in their pay packages. The newspaper De Tijd reports, based on a survey conducted by HR services company Acerta among more than 500 Belgian companies. The turnaround is coming through […]
212 km, or about the distance between Brussels and Ostend, both ways. That is the number of kilometers of traffic jams in Belgium yesterday morning. Between 30 August and 3 September, congestion on Flemish motorways was even 14% higher than […]
From 1 July 2022, a particular counter test (PN measurement) will be used during the annual vehicle inspection for diesel cars. This should detect defective or removed soot filters, says Flemish Minister for Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld). “Since a […]
Two new bicycle and pedestrian bridges over the Brussels-Charleroi canal, linking the commune of Molenbeek and the city of Brussels, were inaugurated on Saturday. The two bridges, located approximately one kilometer apart, are located at the level of the Count […]
Brussels Minister for Mobility, Elke Van den Brandt (Groen), does not dare to set a date on introducing the kilometer tax in Brussels. She said this is an interview with La Dernière Heure, published on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the Minister remains […]
The EU has approved Belgium’s capacity rebate mechanism (CRM). This should attract investors to build new power capacity, such as gas power plants, with the help of subsidies. In this way, the government wants to avoid compromising the security of […]
Flemish Minister of Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld), will invest 100 million euros in new cycling paths in the eastern Flemish periphery of Brussels. In total, 45 km of new infrastructure for fast cycle lanes will be added. “Many commuters […]
Brussels Airlines will again fly to more remote tourist destinations in the coming months. It will add Marrakech in Morocco and Hurghada in Egypt to its offer, destinations that the government currently strongly discourages because of the corona pandemic. According […]
Car sharing company Cambio celebrated its 50 000th subscriber in Brussels on Wednesday. The company has been active in Belgium since 2002. Meanwhile, it has more than 1 600 cars at 778 locations in 67 Belgian cities. Although fewer Cambio […]
The Brussels public transport company MIVB/STIB has its first hydrogen bus. The bus, presented on Monday, will be tested for two years to familiarise with the new technology and evaluate its performance. The vehicle will be leased from the manufacturer […]
Six weeks after the flood disaster in Wallonia, three railway lines are still out of service. But in October, trains should be running again on the last line out of service, the one between Pepinster and Spa. Infrabel, the Belgian […]
Tesla boss Elon Musk has unveiled plans for a metallic humanoid robot that will perform unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks and will be built on the same technology as the company’s semi-autonomous vehicles. The whimsical entrepreneur promised a prototype of […]
The Brussels Region is continuing to make more and more of the capital’s roads suitable for cycling. Last but not least: Avenue Louise, the major road with seven lanes (eight in some places) that links the Louise roundabout to the […]
Eurostar is adding extra journeys to its transport plan as the easing of travel restrictions boosted demand. That is what the operator of high-speed trains linking the UK and continental Europe has announced on Thursday. In August, Eurostar doubled its […]
There will be no geographical expansion of the low-emission zone (LEZ) in Ghent after all. The bench of Alderman will take that decision on Thursday. Groen, the largest party in Ghent, has long been asking for the current LEZ in […]
On Wednesday, IKEA will start a free shuttle bus service between Wilrijk and the Antwerp city center. ‘Pändelbuss’ is a test project collaborating with Autocars De Polder that will last at least three months. The Swedish conglomerate hopes this will […]
Consternation in France: the decree published on Wednesday making the biennial technical inspection of two-wheelers compulsory was “suspended until further notice” at the request of Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Republic, the transport ministry told AFP on Thursday. The […]
The project to create a new metro line 3 to link the north (Evere) to the south (Forest) of the capital is the most suitable mode of transport to meet the mobility needs of the north of Brussels. This is […]
France has announced that it will implement the European directive to require motorbikes to undergo a technical inspection every two years from 2023 onward, like the one for cars. According to a European directive, it would be compulsory from January […]
For the first time since the pandemic, Brussels Airport again received more than one million passengers in one month. In July, the airport welcomed 1 268 257 passengers, it announced Wednesday. The number of passengers was more than twice as […]
The Ghent-based mobility company and Proximus daughter Be-Mobile will develop an application to manage the logistics flow for the construction of the athletes’ village for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The estimated 400 trucks that will pass through Paris […]
In the first six months of this year, 109 people died in traffic accidents in Flanders. That is almost a quarter more than in the same period of 2020 (88 deaths). Moreover, this is the highest traffic toll since 2016. […]
Ride-hailing platform Uber struggles to attract drivers who left the company earlier because the demand for rides had fallen sharply during the corona pandemic. But riders returned to Uber this spring more quickly than drivers, causing long waiting times and […]
From 1 September, driving test centers will temporarily exclude people who commit fraud during the exam. This is what Flemish Minister of Mobility, Lydia Peeters (Open Vld), has announced. However, until now, the centers were quite powerless against such practices. […]
